Possess Quotes

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.

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.

Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.

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.

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.

They that possess the prince possess the laws.

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.

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in there cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment.

There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.

Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.

I didn't know box office was a thing you could possess but I don't have it. I go up for lovely roles and people with this nebulous thing called box office get them so there isn't much I can do about that unless you know where I can get some box-office myself!

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.

To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.

I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

I don't think anyone has a right to possess anything he doesn't love - art or anything else.