Possessing Quotes

202 quotes by 179 authors

Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own. — Banksy
In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart… — Marcel Proust
Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to beâ€”or to be indistinguishable fromâ€”self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing… — Neal Stephenson
Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its shiny, patent-leather finish… — Robert A. Heinlein
As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable. — Albert Einstein
But what the working-class can do, when once they grow into a solidified organization, is to show the possessing class, through a sudden cessation of… — Voltairine de Cleyre
Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting thorough my open mind possessing and caressing m — John Lennon
For her everything was red, orange, gold-red from the sun on the closed eyes, and it all was that color, all of it, the filling,… — Ernest Hemingway
It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Happiness consists not of having, but of being; not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is a warm glow of the heart at peace with… — David O. McKay
Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing. — Stephen Covey
Possessing by letting go of things was a secret of ownership unknown to youth. — Yukio Mishima
Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed. — Robert Frost
I have something to say to the religionist who feels atheists never say anything positive: You are an intelligent human being. Your life is valuable… — Dan Barker
The two dozen commonplace childhood photographs - snowsuit, pony, tennis racket, looming fender of a Dodge - were an inexhaustible source of wonder for him,… — Michael Chabon
She pushed the gardener away and called for them. In her sleep she had seen love. It was poisoning. It was possessing. Devouring. Or it… — Francesca Lia Block
Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can… — Boris Pasternak
When things are in order, if the cause of the orderliness cannot be deduced from the motion of the elements or from the composition of… — Johannes Kepler
Does there exist an Infinity outside ourselves? Is that infinity One, immanent and permanent, necessarily having substance, since He is infinite and if He lacked… — Victor Hugo
Human beings are drawn to cats because they are all we are not â€” self-contained, elegant in everything they do, relaxed, assured, glad of company,… — Pam Brown

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