Quotes with possess

  • The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.
  • Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
  • All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them.
  • All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
  • Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.
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  • Adam Weishaupt G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
    Adam Weishaupt
    German philosopher (1748 - 1830)
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  • Les Brown Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Bennie Thompson Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.
    Bennie Thompson
    American politician (1948 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Robert Burns Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
    Robert Burns
    Scottish Poet (1759 - 1796)
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  • Benjamin Franklin He does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Joseph Addison If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Stephen R. Covey It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Napoleon Hill When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Arthur Capper A boy or girl who has gone through the eight grades should possess a complete, practical education and should have received special training in some specific line of work, fitting him or her to earn a livelihood.
    Arthur Capper
    American politician (1865 - 1951)
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  • A. Philip Randolph A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
    A. Philip Randolph
    American labor unionist and civil rights activist (1889 - 1979)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • George Gurdjieff A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.
    George Gurdjieff
    Russian teacher and writer (1873 - 1949)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree that we do - namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Baruch Spinoza All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them.
    On the Improvement of the Understanding
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Juvenal All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Samuel Johnson Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Constance Rourke An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.
    Constance Rourke
     
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  • Bayard Taylor Because the gift of Song was chiefly lent, To give consoling music for the joys We lack, and not for those which we possess.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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