Possess Quotes

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.

Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

There is one Quality, which has somewhat so heavenly in it; that by so much the more we are possess'd of it, by so much the more we draw nearer to the Great Author of Nature.

We all possess the need to dream.

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!

I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them.

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.

The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle of life which is capable of assimilating the most diverse materials and imprinting her own image upon them.

Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.

The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.

Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.