Possesses Quotes
393 Possesses quotes by 305 unique authors
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What man loses by the social contract is his natural liberty and an unlimited right to everything he tries to get and succeeds in getting;…
— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
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Truth is simple, but Illusion makes it infinitely intricate. The person is rare who possesses an insatiable longing for Truth; the rest allow Illusion to…
— Meher Baba
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Nature has given to each conscious being every power she possesses, and one of these abilities is this: just as Nature converts and alters every…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Everything that possesses life dies if it has to live in uncongenial surroundings.
— Muhammad Iqbal
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I just love the fact that a man possesses something that a woman can never understand because we don't have the experiences of it and…
— Cameron Diaz
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It is becoming plain that our liberal regime of equality and personal freedom depends, more than most theorists of liberalism have been willing to admit,…
— Mary Ann Glendon
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It indicates a person who has not only good manners but who possesses a sense of balance, a sure mastery of himself, a moral discipline…
— Antonio Gramsci
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He who possesses science and art, Possesses religion as well; He who possesses neither of these, Had better have religion.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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He who has realized oneness with God possesses all knowledge contained in Him. Knowing the Lord as Beginning and End of all beings and worlds,…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the unimpeded flow of impulses destructive to others. But when…
— Stanley Milgram
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Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.
— Northrop Frye
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Who is content with nothing possesses all things.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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The Word says, ‘Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world’ (1 John 2:15). Jesus warned, ‘Beware of covetousness: for a…
— David Wilkerson
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When you start out on a project as an actor, you know, you approach the character from the standpoint of maybe writing a list -…
— Omari Hardwick
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This morning my soul is greater than the world since it possesses You, You whom heaven and earth do not contain
— Margaret of Cortona
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Not everyone possesses boundless energy or a conspicuous talent. We are not equally blessed with great intellect or physical beauty or emotional strength. But we…
— Gigi Graham
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All of us experience the sad effects of blind submission to consumerism. In the first place it represents crass materialism. At the same time it…
— Pope John Paul II
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Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
— Charles de Gaulle
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They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages:…
— Horace
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What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A face which is always serene possesses a mysterious and powerful attraction: sad hearts come to it as to the sun to warm themselves again.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
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The central government possesses no plan of finding the way out of this blind alley.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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It isn't an easy job to paint oneself - at any rate if it is to be different from a photograph. And you see -…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
— Henrik Ibsen
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A great conductor possesses that certain charisma and talent that demand the ears and the attention of an audience. I can't tell you how that…
— Isaac Stern
Who Wrote These Possesses Quotes
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