Possessing Quotes

Destitute of the fire of God, nothing else counts; possessing fire, nothing else matters.

Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner. The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting, diverse, and long-standing friends.

Since this life is God's and cannot die, it follows that everyone born anew into possessing this life is said to have eternal life.

The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them, and they make us despair in losing them.

Dubai,I think is a big bore - a city deliberately built to appeal to tourism, and only built for that purpose, and not possessing a valid culture or history of its own.

There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.

I have learned that to do one's next duty is to take a step toward all that is worth possessing.

One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor.

Possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a grand environment to show myself and others that I have wealth has zero appeal.

Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.

Possessing a powerful worldwide brand is essential for sustained success.

Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcity, and from the quantity of labour required to obtain them.

We cheat ourselves in order to enjoy a calm conscience without possessing virtue.

Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.

Irrespective of how we physiologically are made, even possessing special weaknesses, we can overcome our sins through the Lord.

The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.

no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed

PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it.

Oh, what a power is motherhood, possessing a potent spell. Love, Light, Blessings

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

Possessing the ideal makes a person nervous: you sense the inevitable decline just ahead.

The goods of Fortune, even such as they really are, still need taste to enjoy them. It is the enjoying no the possessing, that makes us happy.

Nations are less disposed to make revolutions in proportion as personal property is augmented and distributed among them, and as the number of those possessing it is increased.

[On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately.

What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims.

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.

She pushed the gardener away and called for them. In her sleep she had seen love. It was poisoning. It was possessing. Devouring. Or it was seven pairs of boots climbing up the stairs to find her.

He, that noble prize possessing He that boasts a friend that's true, He whom woman's love is blessing, Let him join the chorus too!

The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.

He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his love of possessing wealth.

We are eating, using up, and possessing more than we should. That is why a large portion of the human population is hungry.

I have toured with Klemens Marktl, playing his original compositions and arrangements. He is a wonderful drummer, a writer possessing a high degree of creativity, and an assured band leader.

The Present, the Present is all thou hast For thy sure possessing; Like the patriarch's angel hold it fast Till it gives its blessing.

Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting thorough my open mind possessing and caressing m

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.

I don't believe in monogamy, possessing people, the rightness or inevitability of jealousy.

Mandela stands alone in possessing all of the qualities of other great men, but has one quality which is transcendent... his ability to forgive and to place others above himself.

Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue.

La possession de ce qu'on aime est une joie plus grande encore que l'amour. Possessing what one loves is an even greater joy than love itself.

Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others.

Time, designing slowly, swiftly; Time, destroying slowly, swiftly; Time holding, possessing the earth in its tender indifference.

Virginia is the place, where, technologically speaking, they will burn people at the stake for possessing such things as toasters.

[Prudence] replaces [strength] by saving the man who has the misfortune of not possessing it from most occasions when it's needed.

Wisdom lies not in possessing knowledge - which quickly becomes outdated - but in perpetually seeking it.

It will be impossible to put these principles into practice unless the non-owning workers through industry and thrift advance to the state of possessing some little property.

From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war.

Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.

That man is out of reach of harm in this life, who is sure of possessing heaven in the next. This is the portion of every believer.

Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.

The only ideals allowed are healthy ones - those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing.