Possess Quotes

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

I don't think anyone has a right to possess anything he doesn't love - art or anything else.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation and enjoy the entire benefits of their own labor.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.

If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.

A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.

To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.

Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts.

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

Among those best known, their highest ambition is to build American homes, possess American furniture, dress in American clothes, adopt the American style of living and be American citizens.

Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward.

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.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

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.

There is one Quality, which has somewhat so heavenly in it; that by so much the more we are possess'd of it, by so much the more we draw nearer to the Great Author of Nature.

We all possess the need to dream.

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.

Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama.

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

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.

I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess.

We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.

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