Quotes of: Possess Keyword

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

Anais Nin

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.

Samuel Smiles

The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal.

Herbert Croly

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

Albert Schweitzer

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.

Epicurus

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not the possession of but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

What is it worth to possess the riches of the world, when a man comes to face Eternity?

Charles Studd

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.

Hale White

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

James A. Baldwin

In the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession.

John Bright

Wealth does not always depends on possession, but often depends on perception.

Debasish Mridha

Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique.

Hattie McDaniel

Happiness does not depend on a possession. Happiness depends on action and perception.

Debasish Mridha

The comics were not only stories to enjoy; for me they were drawings that possessed me.

Jean Giraud

I don't know much about football but everyone seems to say that it is all about possession.

Julie Harris

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

John Locke

Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.

Millard Fillmore

Poetry endures when it possesses passionate and primally sincere clarity in the service of articulating universal human concerns.

Franz Wright

Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable of content with the anthologies of all the world besides.

William Ernest Henley

To possess dignity is to be worthy of respect. Worthy of high esteem. Absorb this: you are worthy of respect.

Beth Moore

I think there is this steely strength beneath this beautiful veneer that a lot of women possess. I can't fathom or understand it.

Bryan Batt