Possesses Quotes
393 Possesses quotes by 305 unique authors
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Gold is the most precious of all commodities; gold constitutes treasure, and he who possesses it has all he needs in the world, as also…
— Christopher Columbus
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A deeply felt novel . . . The Story of Forgetting offers us both solace and illumination. Stefan Merrill Block possesses a singular mix of…
— Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
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Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely -- whatever power it possesses to every sincere soul that seeks it.…
— Aberjhani
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The Holy Scriptures praise the dew of the morning and the dew of the evening; ros matutinum, ros serotinum! Happy is he who possesses the…
— Philibert Joseph Roux
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The toad has indeed no superior as a destroyer of noxious insects, and he possesses no bad habits and is entirely inoffensive himself, every owner…
— Celia Thaxter
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I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story.
— Joyce Maynard
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When we walk the streets at night in safety, it does not strike us that this might be otherwise. This habit of feeling safe has…
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Cambodia possesses now the rights to look far into the future and everything for making a future construction is waiting for the Cambodian own efforts.
— Hun Sen
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All the worth which the human being possesses, all spiritual reality, he possesses only through the State. . . For Truth is the unity of…
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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[T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely…
— Oscar Wilde
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Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned…
— Virginia Woolf
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Every woman thinks herself attractive; even the plainest is satisfied with the charms she deems that she possesses.
— Unknown Author
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When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
— Baron de Montesquieu
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The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive — a…
— Ayn Rand
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Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.
— Gail Godwin
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Love possesses seven hundred wings, and each one extends from the highest heaven to the lowest earth.
— Unknown Author
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Immortality is what nature possesses without effort and without anybody's assistance, and immortality is what the mortals must therefore try to achieve if they want…
— Hannah Arendt
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God never changes; Patient endurance Attains to all things; Who God possesses In nothing is wanting; Alone God suffices.
— Teresa of Avila
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The passion for art is, as for believers, very religious. It unites people, its message is of common humanity. Art has become my religion -…
— Francois Pinault
Who Wrote These Possesses Quotes
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