Possession Quotes

1254 Possession quotes by 873 unique authors

I feel as if they are somewhere between movement and stillness, and thus in possession of a certain energy. — Claire Morgan
The land, the earth God gave to man for his home ... should never be the possession of any man, corporation, (or) society ... any… — Abraham Lincoln
And since the possession of qualities presupposes that one takes a certain pleasure in their reality, all this gives us a glimpse of how it… — Robert Musil
At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself should have joint… — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes… — John Ruskin
Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession. — G. Stanley Hall
Possession and exorcism is something that's in every religion and every culture. It's a real primal fear: Is the body a vessel for our spirits?… — Eli Roth
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession. — Sallust
Gospel possession requires gospel proclamation. — David Platt
Murder is not about lust and it’s not about violence. It’s about possession. When you feel the last breath of life coming out of the… — Ted Bundy
Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of… — Ella Maillart
And, of course, it must be asked: is it proper to transact with the Turks for the most reassured of Greek possessions when Greece is… — Melina Mercouri
A nation has a soul, a spiritual principle. One is in the past, the other in the present. One is the possession of a rich… — Ernest Renan
Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone… — Kary Mullis
One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of… — Sigmund Freud
To be wealthy, a rich nature is the first requisite and money but the second. To be of a quick and healthy blood, to share… — Robert Louis Stevenson
A clean and sensitive conscience, a steady and scrupulous integrity in small things as well as large, is the most valuable of all possessions, to… — Henry Van Dyke
Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice. — Mahatma Gandhi
A good many men and women want to get possession of secrets just as spendthrifts want to get money-for circulation. — George D. Prentice
Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Laws gain their authority from actual possession and custom: it is perilous to go back to their origins; laws, like our rivers, get greater and… — Michel de Montaigne
Slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession. — William Shakespeare
A person who has during all time maintained the imposing position of spiritual head of four-fifths of the human race, and political head of the… — Mark Twain
Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath. — Mark Twain
It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized. — Aristotle

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