Possession Quotes
A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented.
If intelligence and capability are not criteria for the possession of rights, why would animals -who have the capacity to feel fear and pain- be excluded from our moral consideration?
We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.
Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession.
Self-negation is noble, self-culture beneficent, self-possession is manly, but to the truly great and inspiring soul they are poor and tame compared with self-abuse.
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.
It is not his possession of knowledge, of irrefutable truth, that makes the man of science, but his persistent and recklessly critical quest for truth.
The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.
The possession of unnecessary implements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues and tends to foment uprisings.
Capture the feeling associated with your realized wish by assuming the feeling that would be yours were you already in possession of the thing you desire, and your wish will objectify itself.
Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.
My most cherished possession I wish I could leave you is my faith in Jesus Christ, for with Him and nothing else you can be happy, but without Him and with all else you'll never be happy.
The pious sectarian is proud because he is confident of his right of possession in God. The man of devotion is meek because he is conscious of God's right of love over his life and soul.
My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
Creativity is not the possession of some special talent. It’s about the willingness to play.
The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.
Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing.
I am not fond of speaking about politics because I don't have in my possession an army of 200,000 soldiers.
Freedom' is the most expensive possession there is; it has to be paid for with loneliness.
No person, possession, profession, or position ever fills the cup of a wounded, empty heart. It's an emptiness only God can fill.
If you want to be called a dwarf you must be in immediate possession of a battle axe cause otherwise your just a midget with an attitude.
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.
The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.
When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
Simplicity is the only thing that sufficiently reorients our lives so that possessions can be genuinely enjoyed without destroying us.
To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.
There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms.
