Quotes with possessing

  • Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.
  • Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

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  • Aristotle Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Boris Pasternak Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Louisa May Alcott Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
    Louisa May Alcott
    American Author (1832 - 1888)
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  • Aristotle Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Simone Weil Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Benito Mussolini Fortunately the Italian people has not yet accustomed itself to eat many times a day, and possessing a modest level of living, it feels deficiency and suffering less.
    Source: As quoted in Garlic and Oil : Food and Politics in Italy
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Napoleon Hill Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Robert Conklin If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.
    Robert Conklin
    American teacher, writer
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  • Sara Teasdale No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.
    Sara Teasdale
    American lyric poet (1884 - 1933)
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  • Aldous Huxley Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in with a good conscience and with the conviction that, in the process of indulging, one is leading the ''higher life.''
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Oscar Wilde Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Billy Graham There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Oscar Wilde To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • William James We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone, until those smiling possibilities are dead.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Aldous Huxley We lie to ourselves in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing which we can continue with a good conscience to commit and tolerate the most monstrous crimes.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.
    Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
    American author, feminist and intellectual (1844 - 1911)
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  • Eugène Delacroix What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - possessing them - that what has been said has still not been said enough.
    Eugène Delacroix
    French artist (1798 - 1863)
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  • Virginia Woolf Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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