Possession Quotes
1254 Possession quotes by 873 unique authors
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Every other sect supposes itself in possession of the truth, and that those who differ are so far in the wrong. Like a man traveling…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Christians have always tended to transform the Christian Revelation into a Christian religion. Christianity is said to be a religion like any other or, conversely,…
— Jacques Ellul
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The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I would not interfere…
— Mark Twain
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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to…
— Barbara De Angelis
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None of those material possessions do anything to make your life any better.... I know a lot of people who have a lot of everything,…
— Lenny Kravitz
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If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession of as much…
— R. H. Tawney
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I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be…
— Nan Fairbrother
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One of the advantages of being born in an affluent society is that if one has any intelligence at all, one will realize that having…
— Tenzin Palmo
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It is through strength of technique that the body stays in possession of music.
— Arlene Croce
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So there is nothing to be proud of these worldly possessions. What you are to be proud of, or to be conscious of is your…
— Nirmala Srivastava
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Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around…
— Robert Reich
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Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful love.
— Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
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The rich man is not one who is in possession of much, but one who gives much.
— Saint John Chrysostom
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The crown and glory of life is character. It is the noblest possession of a man, constituting a rank in itself, and an estate in…
— Samuel Smiles
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I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
— Friedrich Schiller
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To say that a man is sinful because he sins is to give an operational definition of sin. To say that he sins because he…
— B.F. Skinner
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We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to be directed by…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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My religion is my most precious possession. Except for it, I could easily have become excessively occupied with industry. Sharing responsibility for church work has…
— George W. Romney
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Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them; and if such an occasion should never…
— Anne Bronte
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