Quotes with possess

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  • Plotinus Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
    Plotinus
    Roman philosopher (205 - 270)
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  • Paul Klee Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • Persius Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.
    Persius
    Roman poet and satirist (34 - 62)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • George Orwell Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Colin Powell Experts often possess more data than judgment.
    Colin Powell
    American elder statesman and four-star general (1937 - 2021)
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  • Susan Sontag Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans - the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Jean-Paul Sartre Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • St. Francis of Assisi Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
    St. Francis of Assisi
    Italian saint, founder of the Franciscan monastic order (1182 - 1226)
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  • Charles Kingsley He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
    Charles Kingsley
    British writer (1819 - 1875)
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  • Josh Billings Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Ben Gibbard How I wish you could see the potential
    The potential of you and me
    It's like a book elegantly bound, but
    In a language that you can't read just yet You got to spend some time, love
    You got to spend some time with me
    And I know that you'll find love
    I will possess your heart
    Narrow Stairs I Will Possess Your Heart
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Ralph Ellison I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
    Ralph Ellison
    American writer and essayist (1914 - 1994)
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  • Arsenio Hall I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage.
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  • George Washington I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • George Sand I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.
    George Sand
    French writer (1804 - 1876)
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  • Bryan Batt 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
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Anais Nin I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • David Livingstone I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.
    David Livingstone
    Scottish explorer, Christian Congregationalist and missionary (1813 - 1873)
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