Possess Quotes

1275 Possess quotes by 914 unique authors

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it. — Voltaire
There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or… — Alice Walker
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest… — George Washington
The ministers of Christ should possess refinement. All uncouth manners, attitudes and gestures should be discarded, and they should encourage in themselves humble dignity of… — Ellen G. White
The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the… — Carter G. Woodson
All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know… — Frances Wright
Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most thoroughgoing socioeconomic upheaval… — Martin Filler
What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If only it were possible to love without injury – fidelity isn’t enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I had injured her.… — Graham Greene
If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it. — Albert Camus
I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this… — Christopher Hitchens
I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather I fear to lose truth by the pretension to possess it already wholly. — William James
When I am lonely for boys it’s their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of the movie theaters,… — Margaret Atwood
Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ourselves. — J.R.R. Tolkien
Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess. — Elbert Hubbard
Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate… — Garrison Keillor
Federal and state laws (should) be changed to no longer make it a crime to possess marijuana for private use. — Richard M. Nixon
One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error. — Hermann Hesse
Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and… — Walt Whitman
Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. — Viktor E. Frankl
If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the human condition faces… — Frank Herbert
Whatever we call it - mind, character, soul - we like to think we possess something that is greater than the sum of our neurons… — Susanna Kaysen
To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past… — Giovanni Boccaccio

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