Possesses Quotes
393 Possesses quotes by 305 unique authors
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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
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Concluding a short series on sin: It is appalling to think of a power so strong that it can annihilate with the irresistible force of…
— Charles Brent
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Clouds are fascinating to paint because they are the only element in a landscape that possesses free movement.
— John F. Carlson
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So long as painting deals with objective nature, it is an impure art, for recognizability precludes the highest aesthetic emotion. All painting, ancient or modern,…
— Lawren Harris
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Coolidge is a better example of evolution than either Bryan or Darrow, for he knows when not to talk, which is the biggest asset the…
— Will Rogers
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There are some modern practitioners, who declaim against medical theory in general, not considering that to think is to theorize; and that no one can…
— Erasmus Darwin
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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
— Hermann Hesse
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The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one…
— Edgar Quinet
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Any political movement directed against any body of our fellow-citizens because of their religious creed is a grave offense against American principles and American institutions.…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Based on our natural heritage as the Divine Light of God, every one of us possesses intuition... defined as the language of the soul.
— James Van Praagh
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Power is very much like the wind. It comes and goes; no one really owns it. People are foolish enough to think they possess power.…
— Frederick Lenz
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