Possession Quotes

1254 Possession quotes by 873 unique authors

If the item of stolen property had been anything other than a book, it would have been confiscated. But a book is different—it is not… — Neal Stephenson
If yon wish to be like the gods on earth, to be free in the realms of the dead, pluck not the fruit from the… — Friedrich Schiller
The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a comtempt for mere external show — James A. Garfield
The sunset glow of self-possession. — Nicolas Chamfort
For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law. — Jonathan Swift
Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my inner self. May… — Plato
The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on the air. — Bret Harte
A man's heart must be very frivolous if the possession of fame rewards the labor to attain it. For the worst of reputation is that… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions. — Sydney J. Harris
Faith, enthusiasm, and passionate intensity in general are substitutes for the self-confidence born of experience and the possession of skill. Where there is the necessary… — Eric Hoffer
Conservatism is sometimes a symptom of sterility. Those who have nothing in them that can grow and develop must cling to what they have in… — Eric Hoffer
All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course-- consist of pilferings from other people's wash. No tribe, howsoever… — Mark Twain
It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the… — Jean de La Fontaine
I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession. — Samuel Johnson
Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air! — Thomas Carlyle
Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you. — Charles Kingsley
It is a little remarkable, that - though disinclined to talk overmuch of myself and my affairs at the fireside, and to my personal friends… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends… — Edmund Burke
I used to lie down on the grass and draw the blades as they grew - until every square foot of meadow, or mossy bank,… — John Ruskin
Enthusiasm is a divine possession. — Margaret Sanger
I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model... — Paul Gauguin
When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf 'cause I had alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf. — Neil Gaiman
The ascent to greatness, however steep and dangerous, may entertain an active spirit with the consciousness and exercise of its own power: but the possession… — Edward Gibbon
There are many persons of whom it may be said that they have no other possession in the world but their character, and yet they… — Samuel Smiles

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