Possess Quotes

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.

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

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.

I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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?

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

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.