Possessing Quotes

202 quotes by 179 authors

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety. — Jorge Luis Borges
If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they… — Barbara Bush
Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion - or so it was termed in the advertisement which originally brought it under my notice. Its right to… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Freedom doesn't mean the absence of all restrictions. It means possessing unshakable conviction in the face of any obstacle. — Daisaku Ikeda
Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in… — Aldous Huxley
...the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation's destiny,… — B. C. Forbes
The coming change can only come through a revolution, because the possessing class will not allow a peaceful change to take place; still we are… — Lucy Parsons
Our lives are lived in intense and anxious struggle, in a swirl of speed and aggression, in competing, grasping, possessing and achieving, forever burdening ourselves… — Sogyal Rinpoche
Oh, what a power is motherhood, possessing a potent spell. Love, Light, Blessings — Euripides
Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty. — Henri Matisse
A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.… — Mahatma Gandhi
Ordinarily, even when people become religious, they go on thinking in terms of having - possessing heaven or possessing the pleasures of heaven - but… — Rajneesh
The body is there because the mind seeks desires through the body; desires cannot be fulfilled without the body. You can be completely fulfilled without… — Rajneesh
Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself. — Desiderius Erasmus
It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed. — Vida Dutton Scudder
Perhaps Vanderbilt's most important role in the interest of our free society is to give the world educated men and women of character, possessing a… — Joe B Wyatt
Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must… — Hippocrates
All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they… — Edmund Burke

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