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Tag Name "Possessing" (168)

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I am prepared to sacrifice every so-called privilege I possess in order to have a few rights.
Inez Milholland
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Once, during the drinking phase, Wendy had accused him of desiring his own destruction but not possessing the necessary moral fiber to support a full-blown deathwish. So he manufactured ways in which other people could do it, lopping a piece at a time off himself and their family.
Stephen King
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Possessing the ideal makes a person nervous: you sense the inevitable decline just ahead.
Garrison Keillor
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Freedom doesn't mean the absence of all restrictions. It means possessing unshakable conviction in the face of any obstacle.
Daisaku Ikeda
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The coming change can only come through a revolution, because the possessing class will not allow a peaceful change to take place still we are willing to work for peace at any price, except at the price of liberty.
Lucy Parsons
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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.
Samuel Willard
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Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others.
Mark Twain
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There is a difference between happiness, the supreme good, and the final end or goal toward which our actions ought to tend. For happiness is not the supreme good, but presupposes it, being the contentment or satisfaction of the mind which results from possessing it.
Rene Descartes
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Time, designing slowly, swiftly Time, destroying slowly, swiftly Time holding, possessing the earth in its tender indifference.
Martha Ostenso
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I don't believe in monogamy, possessing people, the rightness or inevitability of jealousy.
Kate Millett
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Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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After the pleasure of possessing books there is hardly anything more pleasant than that of speaking of them, and of communicating to the public the innocent richness of thought which we have acquired by the culture of letters.
Charles Nodier
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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
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Self-confidenc e, poise, consciousness of possessing the power to accomplish our desires, with renewed lively interest in life are the natural results of the practice of Contrology [Pilates].
Joseph Pilates
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To be able to dispense with good things is tantamount to possessing them.
Jean-Francois Regnard
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We may have an excellent ear for music, without being able to perform in any kind we may judge well of poetry, without being poets, or possessing the least of a poetic vein but we can have no tolerable notion of goodness without being tolerably good.
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
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Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country. It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world.
Richard Eberhart
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There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.
Billy Graham
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If possessing a higher degree of intelligence does not entitle one human to use another for his or her own ends, how can it entitle humans to exploit non-humans?
Peter Singer
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The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.
Gertrude Atherton
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Sanctification is possessing the mind of Christ.
John G. Lake
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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.
Richard Cobden
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The film industry has become a universal medium exercising a profound influence on the development of people's attitudes and choices, and possessing a remarkable ability to influence public opinion and culture across all social and political frontiers.
Pope John Paul II
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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
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