Possess Quotes

1275 Possess quotes by 914 unique authors

The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies — Kate Chopin
If a man can possess a woman sexually -really possess- he won't need to control her ideas, her opinions, her clothes, her friends, even her… — Toni Bentley
Many undoubtedly owe their good fortune to the circumstance that they possess a pleasing smile with which they win hearts. Yet these hearts would do… — Arthur Schopenhauer
perhaps I possess a certain Midwestern sensibility that I inherited from my mother and her parents, a sensibility that Warren Buffet seems to share: that… — Barack Obama
His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub's fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it… — Jack London
We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we… — Epicurus
I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at all of the… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds. — David Mitchell
Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are happy enough to… — W. Somerset Maugham
But whether I become a believer or remain an agnostic, my belief or disbelief must derive its source from within, not from without. I, myself,… — Oscar Wilde
In a head-on collision with Fanatics, the real problem is always the same: how can we possibly behave decently toward people so arrogantly ignorant that… — David James Duncan
Or perhaps it is some combination of spirit and desire, love and hope, some alchemy that we each possess and can put to use, if… — Libba Bray
Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun - if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one. — Emily Dickinson
All that is great cannot be possessed - and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing. We want to possess. — Rajneesh
Oh, aye, Sassenach. I am your master . . . and you're mine. Seems I canna possess your soul without losing my own. — Diana Gabaldon
I experienced in myself a certain capacity for judging which I have doubtless received from God, like all the other things that I possess; and… — Rene Descartes
The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key,… — Edith Wharton
True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers… — Albert Camus
If rulers refuse to consider poems as crimes, then someone must commit crimes that serve the function of poetry, or texts that possess the resonance… — Hakim Bey
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. — Nhat Hanh
You are born with the yearning arrow, my Glynna, though you are not yet fully aware of it. It is not a happy thing to… — Isobelle Carmody
The Universe was a silly place at best...but the least likely explanation for it was the no-explanation of random chance, the conceit that abstract somethings… — Robert A. Heinlein
It's as if scientists exert every effort of will they possess deliberately to find the least significant problems in the world and explain them. Art… — Stephen Fry
Even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and that to survive… — Primo Levi
We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we… — Mark Twain

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