Possesses Quotes

The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative.

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

We believe, as the President has indicated, that this combination of a rogue state that possesses weapons of mass destruction and has known ties to terrorist organizations, is a grave threat to the people of the United States and to other countries around the world.

Hopefully, 21 years later, Judge Roberts possesses an openness with respect to issues of gender-based wage discrimination.

On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets.

Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support-the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.

The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.

In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.

Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is not only from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human.

The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

Two things are as big as the man who possesses them - neither bigger nor smaller. One is a minute, the other a dollar.

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true world, and is that world.