Quotes of: Possessions Keyword

An undisciplined mind is a wasted one, which will be reflected in the life of the one who possesses such a mind.

Stephen Richards

inside the soul everyone possesses the same urge for complete silence of joy

litymunshi

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Everybody has a second personality, it may possess and make you do whatever it likes.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Some wo/men are so possessive … you end up missing missing them.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

No one can claim to possess another, only God has the legitimate right to posses us.

R. Alan Woods

Anyone can possess, anyone can profess, but it is an altogether different thing to confess.

Shannon L. Alder

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.

Mort Sahl

Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.

Mark Twain

The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.

Frederick Law Olmsted

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

George Washington

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

Edward Gibbon

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.

Joanna Lumley

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

Sallust

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The Second Amendment does protect the right to people to possess weapons for self-defense in the home. That's what the Supreme Court said.

Laurence Tribe

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

W. H. Auden

The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England.

Peter Stuyvesant

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

Friedrich Schiller

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

Coco Chanel

The most abundant resources that we possess amongst the 1.5 million nonprofits in the United States are passion and knowledge, yet our most scarce resource is collaboration.

Adam Braun