Possession Quotes

1254 Possession quotes by 873 unique authors

A feeling that greater possessions, no matter of what kind they may be, will of themselves bring contentment or happiness, is a misunderstanding.Â No person,… — Genevieve Behrend
My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library. — Bill Russell
The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity. — Jackie Robinson
Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to… — Robert South
Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of… — William Wordsworth
My disenchantment? Oh no, my dear, there are no disenchantments, merely progressions and styles of possession. To exist is to be spellbound. — Robert Coover
The Church was resolved to have a New Testament, and as, after the lapse of more than three hundred years, no handwriting could be proved… — Thomas Paine
I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time — Thucydides
It is not certain that with this aid alone [possession of arms], they would not be able to shake off their yokes. But were the… — James Madison
From a poor man, poor in Time, I was suddenly lifted up into a vast revenue; I could see no end of my possessions; I… — Charles Lamb
I did not know that history is like a blood stain that keeps on showing on the wall no matter how many new owners take… — Peter Carey
The darkness which clings to every personality is the door into the unconscious and the gateway of dreams, from which those two twilight figures, the… — Carl Jung
Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife. — Euripides
The absence of romance from my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but if it be judged useful by those inquirers who… — Thucydides
Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)â€”Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already… — Walt Whitman
After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem. — Shmuel Yosef Agnon
I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of… — N. Scott Momaday
History is only a tiresome repetition of one story. Persons and classes have sought to win possession of the power of the State in order… — William Graham Sumner
Men find happiness neither by means of the body nor through possessions, but through uprightness and wisdom. — Democritus

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