Quotes of Possess - somelinesforyou

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

- Malcolm Cowley

“ We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ To be possessed is an admirable reason for possessing. ”

- Dorothy Sayers

“ A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind. ”

- Robert Oxton Bolton

“ 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 K. Chesterton

“ Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions. ”

- Peace Pilgrim

“ 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

“ Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it. ”

- Simone Weil

“ Happiness is in the taste, and not in things themselves; we are happy a possessing what we like, not a possessing what others like. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love. ”

- Kahlil Kibran

“ Only people who possess firmness can possess true gentleness. In those who appear gentle, it is usually only weakness that is readily converted into harshness. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

- Billy Graham

“ There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it. ”

- Napoleon Hill

“ To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self. ”

- Hamilton Wright Mabie

“ While one party may possess the levers of power, one party does not possess a monopoly on good ideas. Good lawmaking, after all, is about the ability to craft effective solutions. ”

- Bill Owens

“ What is it about possessing things? Why do we feel the need to own what we love, and why do we become jerks when we do? We've all been there — you want something, to possess it. By possessing something you lose it. You finally win the girl of your dreams, the first thing you do is change her… ”

- Jeff Melvoin

“ Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel. ”

- George Santayana

“ Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. ”

- Aristotle

“ Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. ”

- Henry Van Dyke

“ If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess. ”

- Heinrich Heine

“ The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. ”

- Lord Macaulay

“ If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation. ”

- Anais Nin

“ No one worth possessingCan be quite possessed. ”

- Sara Teasdale

“ The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet. ”

- Anthony J. D’Angelo
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