Possess Quotes

1275 Possess quotes by 914 unique authors

Perhaps things are most beautiful when they are not quite real; when you look upon a scene as an outsider, and come to possess it… — Mark Helprin
Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality...One can't possess reality, one can possess images--one can't possess the present but one can possess the past. — Susan Sontag
. . . the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not, You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy. In order… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring, as far as… — Baruch Spinoza
Sidonie, I know you don't remember it, but you once promised to trust me beyond all reason. And I swear to you that all that… — Jacqueline Carey
Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any… — Patrick Henry
When it is understood that one loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them, the essence of natural farming will be realized. The… — Masanobu Fukuoka
(After death.) So few people who come across, possess awareness of any kind. All they bring along with them are worthless values. All they desire… — Richard Matheson
You possess other people's...bodies." He accepted that statement with a nod. "Do you want to possess my body?" "I want to do a lot of… — Becca Fitzpatrick
Love is all I can possess and no one can deprive me of it. Kahlil Gibran (Visions of the Prophet) — Khalil Gibran
But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about… — E. M. Forster
That the speech of self-disclosure should be translatable seems to me very odd, but I am convinced that it is. The conclusion that I draw… — Wystan Hugh Auden
I want there to be a place in the world where people can engage in one another’s differences in a way that is redemptive, full… — Bell Hooks
The luxury to disparage freedom is the privilege of those who already possess it. — Bertrand Russell
Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds,… — David Mitchell
Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it. — Romain Rolland
In all, his outfit required nearly two thousand man-years of research and development, eight barrels of oil, and sixteen patent and trademark infringement lawsuits. All… — Daniel Suarez
O my God, since thou art with me, and i must now, in obedience to thy commands, apply my mind to these outward things, i… — Brother Lawrence
Yeah, well, to hear you talk, most men should come with warning labels. (She lifted her hands up to frame her next statement.) Attention, please,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of… — Samuel Adams
if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how. — Friedrich Nietzsche
He gave her a sly, sideways look. "Did you bring it?" "My list? Heavens, no. What can you be thinking?" His smile widened. "I brought… — Julia Quinn
Forgive me for speaking frankly, but after the past quarter-hour's conversation, I am unconvinced that any of you possess the sense or sensitivity to impart… — Tessa Dare
It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of… — Oscar Wilde

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