Possesses Quotes
393 quotes by 325 authors
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O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to…
— Teresa of Avila
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It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it…
— Charles Babbage
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The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the…
— Balthus
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Al-Qa'ida does not follow a traditional command structure, wear uniforms, carry its arms openly, or mass its troops at the borders of the nations it…
— John O. Brennan
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There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
— Andrew Carnegie
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the firmness or precariousness…
— Alexander Hamilton
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It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the firmness or precariousness…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Man is not the most majestic of the creatures; long before the mammals even, the dinosaurs were far more splendid. But he has what no…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Ancient poets and sages have called the earth the mother of all things. They could hardly have chosen a more attractive name, or one that…
— Jonas Hallgrimsson
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Trust perfected is prayer perfected. Trust looks to receive the thing asked for and gets it. Trust is not a belief that God can bless…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his habits, his clothes, in short,…
— Primo Levi
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The largest land animal is the elephant, and it is the nearest to man in intelligence: it understands the language of its country and obeys…
— Pliny the Elder
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A successful person realizes his personal responsibility for self-motivation. He starts with himself because he possesses the key to his own ignition switch.
— Kemmons Wilson
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In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous…
— Edmund Burke
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The enemy is still proud and powerful. He is hard to get at. He still possesses enormous armies, vast resources, and invaluable strategic territories...No one…
— Winston Churchill
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When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself.
— Jules Renard
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A good mind possesses a kingdom.
— Seneca the Younger
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He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing capacity to arouse…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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