Possessing Quotes

From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.

If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.

No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you.

The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence.

It was used for decades to describe talented computer enthusiasts, people whose skill at using computers to solve technical problems and puzzles was - and is - respected and admired by others possessing similar technical skills.

When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.

Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world.

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.

Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia and China and other nations. I doubt that there is one country amongst those I mentioned which has a desire to see Iran, with its fundamentalist, Islamic, extremist government, possessing nuclear weapons.