Best They Possess Quotes
66 They Possess quotes by 54 unique authors
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Good librarians are natural intelligence operatives. They possess all of the skills and characteristics required for that work: curiosity, wide-ranging knowledge, good memories, organization and…
— Marilyn Johnson
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Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. Let them make the effort to…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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You say you are not happy in the Mission. That, in itself, is not a sign that God does not want you there. Perfect contentment…
— Vincent de Paul
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Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of such comic, practical joking affairs--which…
— Ralph Ellison
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The problem is not that America does not have energy. The problem is that our government - alone among the governments of the world -…
— Jim Talent
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Sages do not accumulate for themselves. The more they give to others, the more they possess of their own. The way of Heaven is to…
— Laozi
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In preindustrial cultures leisure is scarcely a burden or a "problem" because it is built into the ritual and ground plan of life for which…
— David Riesman
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The "second sight" possessed by the Highlanders in Scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future events. I believe they possess this gift because they don't…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Five common traits of good writers: (1) They have something to say. (2) They read widely and have done so since childhood. (3) They possess…
— James J. Kilpatrick
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Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something…
— Callie Khouri
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The animate and inanimate creation all contribute to the true worship of God. All of creation must worship at whatever level of sentience they possess.…
— Ed Buckner
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Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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There are innumerable instances suggesting that modern intellectuals do not believe themselves, that they don't really believe what they say, that they say certain things…
— John Lukacs
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The native Jewish families in Jerusalem, as well as those in other parts of Palestine, present a marked difference to the Jews of Europe and…
— Bayard Taylor
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Power is very much like the wind. It comes and goes; no one really owns it. People are foolish enough to think they possess power.…
— Frederick Lenz
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I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.
— Whitney Houston
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Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The human spirit glows from that small inner light of doubt whether we are right, while those who believe with certainty that they possess the…
— Saul Alinsky
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Many undoubtedly owe their good fortune to the circumstance that they possess a pleasing smile with which they win hearts. Yet these hearts would do…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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In a head-on collision with Fanatics, the real problem is always the same: how can we possibly behave decently toward people so arrogantly ignorant that…
— David James Duncan
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It's as if scientists exert every effort of will they possess deliberately to find the least significant problems in the world and explain them. Art…
— Stephen Fry
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Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring, as far as…
— Baruch Spinoza
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But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about…
— E. M. Forster
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