Possess Quotes

It is of the greatest importance that people and governments in many more countries than ours should realize that it is more dangerous to have access to nuclear arms than not to possess them.

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.

Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.

To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.

A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.

It is better to believe that a man does possess good qualities than to assert that he does not.

The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.

Iraq is not the only nation in the world to possess weapons of mass destruction, but it is the only nation with a leader who has used them against his own people.

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 consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property.

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Life isn't something you possess. It's something you take part in, and you witness.

Now, there are a very large number of bodily movements, having their source in our nervous system, that do not possess the character of conscious actions.

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be "revolutionary" but not transformative.

She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.