Possess Quotes

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.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

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.

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

To possess taste, one must have some soul.

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.

What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly possess the necessary information to solve some of them.

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.

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.

It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

We have helped to organize the United Nations. We believe it will stop aggressor nations from starting wars. Because we believe it, we intend to support the United Nations organization with all the power and resources we possess.

I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it-why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

The problem is not that America does not have energy. The problem is that our government - alone among the governments of the world - will not allow its own people to recover the energy that they possess.

History's most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would be difficult for those musicians to get deals. We have the insight and the tools to identify and bring to fruition the dormant talent that our artists possess.

Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.

Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.