Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.
A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human.
There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.
How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public.
To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.
Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.
Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!
I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story.
If you possess the basic necessities in life, there is absolutely no reason for you to feel any sorrows. For there is someone praying to be in your place.
Only can talk to unique minds. The ones that can't be defined. Always quiet, but possess words that can shock mind.
The dwelling places of Europe have an air of inheritance, or cumulative possession - a hive occupied by generations of bees.
I've always been interested in moments of disbelief... I don't know if they possess any magic, but they do have something.
Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.
The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
[while narrator is on the phone] Tyler Durden: Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.
Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard: [Studying Kimble's fake ID now in his possession] Where are you Desmondo?
Saito: You remind me of someone... a man I met in a half-remembered dream. He was possessed of some radical notions.
Belloq: Dr. Jones. Again we see there is nothing you can possess which I cannot take away.
Old Monk: Lust awakens the desire to possess. And that awakens the intent to murder.
