We Possess Quotes

121 quotes by 108 authors

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. — John Cage
We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we possess nothing but… — Friedrich Nietzsche
We possess only the happiness we able to understand. — Maurice Maeterlinck
Imagination is potentially infinite. Though actually we are limited to the types of experience for which we possess organs, those organs are somewhat plastic. Opportunity… — George Santayana
We possess within us a force of incalculable power, which if we direct it in a conscious and wise manner, gives us the mastery of… — Emile Coue
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about… — Werner Heisenberg
Government is necessary, but the only rights we can delegate to government are the ones we possess. For example, we all have a natural right… — Walter E. Williams
We attract hearts by the qualities we display; we retain them by he qualities we possess. — Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Suard
The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser. — Michel de Montaigne
In any activity, we have to know what to expect, how to reach our objectives and what capacity we possess for the proposed task. The… — Paulo Coelho
We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared...The longer we live, the more life we possess. — Harold S. Kushner
When we invite the Holy Ghost to fill our minds with light and knowledge, He "quickens" us, that is to say, enlightens and enlivens the… — Keith K. Hilbig
Everything we possess that is not necessary for life or happiness becomes a burden, and scarcely a day passes that we do not add to… — Robert Breault
It is by the path of love, which is charity, that God draws near to man, and man to God. But where charity is not… — Albertus Magnus
Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty! — James Monroe
We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells… — Teresa of Avila
Our lives are complex; our emotions are complex; our intellectual desires are complex. I believe that architecture â€¦ needs to mirror that complexity in every… — Daniel Libeskind
Broadly speaking, I learned to recognize sin as the refusal to live up to the enlightenment we possess: to know the right order of values… — Margaret Bondfield
A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one… — Charles Dickens
We demand that sex speak the truth and we demand that it tell us our truth, or rather, the deeply buried truth of that truth… — Michel Foucault

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