Possessing Quotes

202 quotes by 179 authors

Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner. The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting, diverse, and long-standing… — Warren Buffett
Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing. — William Shakespeare
No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of… — James Madison
The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own… — Ruth Bernhard
The central problem of management is how spontaneous interaction of people within a firm, each possessing only bits of knowledge, can bring about the competitive… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Government, possessing the power to create and issue currency and credit as money and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and credit from circulation… — Abraham Lincoln
...the goal of all spiritual life is to get your ego out of the way - outwit the sucker; dissolve it; shoot it; kill it.… — Lawrence Kushner
No one worth possessing can be quite possessed. — Sara Teasdale
Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information which is… — Dave Barry
If you love a woman, you can dominate her. That's why lovers go on playing politics with each other, dominating, possessing; the fear is there… — Rajneesh
We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the most strangely exquisite… — Victor Hugo
It is evident that the right of acquiring and possessing property, and having it protected, is one of the natural, inherent, and unalienable rights of… — William Paterson
This integrative action in virtue of which the nervous system unifies from separate organs an animal possessing solidarity, an individual, is the problem before us. — Charles Scott Sherrington
What really drives the battle against law enforcement and punishment is not a commitment to treatment, but the widely held view that, first, we are… — John P. Walters
And if we now cast our eyes over the nations of the earth, we shall find that, instead of possessing the pure religion of the… — Samuel Adams
The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge… — John Milton
The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely understandable world.… — William James
When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing the history of… — Margery Allingham
Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country. It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country.… — Richard Eberhart
Before (the Palestinians) very eyes we are possessing the land and the villages where they and their ancestors have lived We are the generation of… — Moshe Dayan

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