Quotes of: Possessions Keyword

Lou: Reject the basic assumption of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.

Fight Club

Gandhi: I want to change their minds. Not kill them for weaknesses we all possess.

Gandhi

Enthusiasm is the greatest asset you can possess, for it can take you further than money, power or influence.

Dada Vaswani

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

Carlos Santana

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

Rainer Maria Rilke

True generosity is an offering; given freely and out of pure love. No strings attached. No expectations. Time and love are the most valuable possession you can share.

Suze Orman

I have a checklist of things I'd like to do in movies. One of them is get possessed. Die on a deathbed with a ghostly pallor - that's on my list.

Talulah Riley

The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.

Yoko Ono

Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.

J. B. Priestley

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.

Ruth Benedict

There is a room in the Department of Mysteries, that is kept locked at all times. It contains a force that is at once more wonderful and more terrible than death, than human intelligence, than forces of nature. It is also, perhaps, the most mysteriou...

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature. To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take…If we commit ourselves to one per...

The Irrational Season

They still possess virtues which might cause shame to most Christians. No hospitals are needed among them, because there are neither mendicants nor paupers as long as there are any rich people among them. Their kindness, humanity, and courtesy not on...

The Jesuit relations and allied documents [microform]: travels and explorations of the Jesuit missionaries in New France, 1610-1791

But whatever the form in which love appears, the lesson it teaches us is the same. We can never assimilate, never become, the beloved object. Possession is never complete, it will elude us in the end, and if we persist in our attempts to impose ourse...

Molly Izzard

There is no greater power than the one others do not believe you possess.

Book of Orion - Liber Aeternus

I was supposed to be powerless, and as a result they failed to see that I possessed claws.

Bleeds My Desire

It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.

James Douglas

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

Sophocles

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Carl Sandburg