Top 100 Quotes About Possessing
#1. No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
Otto Von Bismarck
#2. It was used for decades to describe talented computer enthusiasts, people whose skill at using computers to solve technical problems and puzzles was - and is - respected and admired by others possessing similar technical skills.
Kevin Mitnick
#3. The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.
Gertrude Atherton
#4. Death is another inevitable consequence of possessing something without its understanding
Sunday Adelaja
#5. If I had married a woman intelligent enough to guide me, to rule me without my feeling that I was ruled, I should have taken good care of my money, I should have had children, and I should not be, as now I am, alone in the world and possessing nothing.
Giacomo Casanova
#6. The blessed ones who possess the Kingdom are they who have repudiated every external thing and have rooted from their hearts all sense of possessing. These are the poor in spirit.
A.W. Tozer
#7. The kind of love that spreads through your body, possessing and controlling it, doesn't just die. It keeps living the way a broken heart keeps beating.
Emma Hart
#8. 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.
John Greenleaf Whittier
#9. We cheat ourselves in order to enjoy a calm conscience without possessing virtue.
Lambert Of Maastricht
#10. Any form of increase should be directed at possessing something
Sunday Adelaja
#12. Although the vast country which we have been describing was inhabited by many indigenous tribes, it may justly be said at the time of its discovery by Europeans to have formed one great desert. The Indians occupied without possessing it.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#13. One who believes may not be presumptuous; on the contrary, truth leads to humility, because believers know that, rather than ourselves possessing truth, it is truth that embraces and possesses us.
Pope Francis
#14. 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.
Clive Bell
#15. The itch for naming things is almost as bad as the itch for possessing things. Let them and leave them alone
they'll survive for a few more thousand years, more or less, without any glorification from us.
Edward Abbey
#16. Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue.
Laozi
#17. Classical works; all (of course) immeasurably superior to anything produced in later times; and all (from my present point of view) possessing the one great merit of enchaining nobody's interest, and exciting nobody's brain.
Wilkie Collins
#18. Enlightenment is not about knowing as much as it is about unknowing; it is not so much learning as unlearning. It is about surrendering and letting go rather than achieving and possessing. It's more about entering the mystery than arriving at a mental certitude.
Richard Rohr
#19. One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor.
Marshall McLuhan
#20. No good ever came out of possessing a firearm in a Patsy Cline singing mood.
Brian McGreevy
#21. After the Civil War, when blacks fought along whites to secure freedom for all, southern states enacted Black Codes, laws that restricted the civil rights and liberties of blacks. Central to the enforcement of these laws were the stiff penalties for blacks possessing firearms.
Niger Innis
#22. I don't know how to talk.
Oh! 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
#23. That there are a hundred with wit for one with understanding is a true proposition with which many witless Dummkopf consoles himself.The Dummkopf should also reflect that there also a hundred possessing neither wit nor understanding for every man possessing wit .
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
#24. 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-Exupery
#25. Sophie's here, but Elodie's possessing her right now."
"In that case, I'll wait out here," he said.
Rachel Hawkins
#26. 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
#27. If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one ...
James Madison
#28. 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.
Matthew Arnold
#29. Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.
Orison Swett Marden
#30. And the more you spend in blessing The poor and lonely and sad,
The more of your heart's possessing
Returns to you glad.
John Greenleaf Whittier
#31. Varvara was a girl of some twenty-three summers, of middle height, thin, but possessing a face which, without being actually beautiful, had the rare quality of charm, and might fascinate even to the extent of passionate regard.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#32. I don't believe in monogamy, possessing people, the rightness or inevitability of jealousy.
Kate Millett
#33. 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
#34. It seems incredible that a man possessing so many conditions of happiness should be not only so little happy, but clearly does not see the reason why he should exist at all. It
Henryk Sienkiewicz
#35. I have learned that to do one's next duty is to take a step toward all that is worth possessing.
J.G. Holland
#36. Letters were first invented for consoling such solitary wretches as myself. Having lost the substantial pleasures of seeing and possessing you, I shall in some measure compensate this loss by the satisfaction I shall find in your writing.
Heloise
#37. Any watching the battle would have found no breath in the next few blurring moments. Never had the Underdark witnessed such a vicious fight as when these two masters of the blade each attacked the demon possessing the other - and himself.
R.A. Salvatore
#38. There is no economic failure so terrible in its import as that of a country possessing a surplus of every necessity of life in which numbers willing and anxious to work, are deprived of dire necessities. It simply cannot be if our moral and economic system is to survive.
Herbert Hoover
#41. Tengo had a gift for such work. He was a born technician, possessing both the intense concentration of a bird sailing through the air in search of prey and the patience of a donkey hauling water, playing always by the rules of the game.
Haruki Murakami
#42. Though free from all sense of possessing, they yet possess all things. Theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
A.W. Tozer
#43. Everything in the world is maya, an illusion. The ultimate truth one has to realise is that we actually need nothing. Because to possess an illusion is as good as possessing nothing.
Amish Tripathi
#44. Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be - or to be indistinguishable from - self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.
Neal Stephenson
#45. Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#46. Government, possessing the power to create and issue currency and credit as money and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and credit from circulation by taxation and otherwise, need not and should not borrow capital at interest as a means of financing government work and public enterprises.
Abraham Lincoln
#47. Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.
Oscar Wilde
#48. Renounce to the desire of possessing worldly things: this is the first step in the path of perfection; by mean of this absolute untie is how the passions can be fought.
Eliphas Levi
#49. Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.
Millard Fillmore
#50. 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
#51. 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.
Watchman Nee
#52. Goodness is funny because it draws you to it while curiously possessing you with the untrammelled desire to turn it into something bad.
Sophie Villalobos
#53. What did we possess of real value? ... For no one saw anything around him or in him which really belonged to him. It reached the point where we were just eight beggars, possessing nothing ...
Rene Daumal
#54. 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
#55. Our strongest gifts are usually those we are barely aware of possessing. They are a part of our God-given nature, with us from the moment we drew first breath, and we are no more conscious of having them them than we are of breathing.
Parker J. Palmer
#56. Have you been reading those books that clueless illiterate Duja in charge of the lending library lets you borrow?' 'No, Ma.' 'Then what put you in mind of devils possessing nuns to take over the church?
Renita D'Silva
#57. Surrounded by all the members of my dear family, enjoying the affection of numerous friends, who have never abandoned me, and possessing a sufficient share of all that contributes to make life agreeable, I lift my grateful eyes towards the Supreme Being and feel that I am happy.
John James Audubon
#58. For well-being and health, again, the homestead should be airy in summer, and sunny in winter. A homestead possessing these qualities would be longer than it is deep; and its main front would face the south.
Aristotle.
#59. 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
#60. [Prudence] replaces [strength] by saving the man who has the misfortune of not possessing it from most occasions when it's needed.
Nicolas Chamfort
#61. Possessing the ideal makes a person nervous: you sense the inevitable decline just ahead.
Garrison Keillor
#62. 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
#63. Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.
Desiderius Erasmus
#64. 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
#65. Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
Banksy
#66. Would any thing but a madman complain of uncertainty? Uncertainty and expectation are joys of life; security is an insipid thing; and the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.
William Congreve
#67. The sage produces without possessing, acts without expectations, and accomplishes without abiding in her accomplishments. It is precisely because she does not abide in them that they never leave her.
Lao-Tzu
#68. We are what our genetics say we are. Melissa Mae Palmer on being born with one of the rarest diseases in history and possessing the only genetic living code.
Melissa Mae Palmer
#69. Treating living creatures possessing complex emotional worlds as if they were machines is likely to cause them not only physical discomfort, but also much social stress and psychological frustration.
Yuval Noah Harari
#70. Any species possessing this kind of knowledge base is best left unannoyed.
Peter F. Hamilton
#71. ... perhaps vulgarity is the price one pays for possessing no civilisation of one's own.
Robert Payne
#72. When things are in order, if the cause of the orderliness cannot be deduced from the motion of the elements or from the composition of matter, it is quite possibly a cause possessing a mind.
Johannes Kepler
#73. Power exhibits itself under two distinct forms,
strength and force,
each possessing peculiar qualities, and each perfect in its own sphere. Strength is typified by the oak, the rock, the mountain. Force embodies itself in the cataract, the tempest, and the thunder-bolt.
James A. Garfield
#74. The church is to be set apart (sanctified) not by possessing a special religious piety but by participating in and manifesting the perfect eternal love of God. As Bonhoeffer said, Jesus calls men, not to a new religion, but to life.
Gregory A. Boyd
#75. Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism.
Dave Barry
#76. Thirty or forty proprietors, with incomes answering to between one thousand and five thousand a year, would create a much more effectual demand for the necessaries, conveniences, and luxuries of life, than a single proprietor possessing a hundred thousand a year.
Thomas Malthus
#77. The incredible tragedy of jealousy is that it does not deliver to the person possessing it anything except a vexed spirit, a nasty attitude and a silly disposition.
Lance D. Watson
#78. There is always the fear of self-righteousness possessing us, the fear of arrogating to ourselves a superiority that we do not possess.
Mahatma Gandhi
#79. I have sharp teeth inside my mouth,
Inside my dark red lips,
And lacquer slickly hides the claws
In my red fingertips.
So I conceal my armoury.
Yours is all on view.
You think you are possessing me-
But I've got my teeth in you.
Angela Carter
#80. Believe me, were I ever to accomplish anything, it would be in music, which has always attracted me; and, without overestimating myself, I am conscious of possessing a certain creative faculty.
Robert Schumann
#81. Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.
Stephen R. Covey
#82. Human beings
human children especially
seldom deny themselves the pleasure of exercising a power which they are conscious of possessing, even though that power consist only in a capacity to make others wretched
Charlotte Bronte
#83. Can you deal with the most vital matters by letting events take their course? Can you step back from you own mind and thus understand all things? Giving birth and nourishing, having without possessing, acting with no expectations, leading and not trying to control: this is the supreme virtue.
Laozi
#84. Indeed, if to be in love is not to be able to live without possessing that person one desires, to sacrifice to her one's time, one's pleasures, one's life, then I am really in love.
Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
#85. I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.
Harold Pinter
#86. The constant broadcast and reception of ghostly images via radio and television, according to this notion, had weakened the sense, particularly among youth, of possessing physical the sense, particularly among youth, of possessing physical bodies and private identities.
McLuhan CD-ROM
Marshall McLuhan
#87. 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.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#88. 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.
Barbara Bush
#89. Besides confidence and a smile, we learned, the other characteristics of an alpha male were being well-groomed, possessing a sense of humor, connecting with people, and being seen as the social center of a room.
Neil Strauss
#90. There is a magic moment, during which a man has surrendered a treasure, and during which the man who is about to receive it has not yet done so. An alert lawyer [read bond trader] will make that moment his own, possessing the treasure for a magic microsecond, taking a little of it, passing it on.
Michael Lewis
#91. 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.
Kevin Allen
#92. A man liberated from monarchical or hereditary limitations stood a greater chance of possessing a mind free to roam and to grow and to create and to innovate in a climate in which citizens lived together in essential harmony and affection.87 This was Jefferson's ideal republic - and he was
Jon Meacham
#93. 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.
Michelangelo
#94. I am not a critic of the West; I am a critic of the weakness of the West. I am a critic of a fact we can't comprehend: how one can lose one's spiritual strength, one's will power and possessing freedom, not value it, not be willing to make sacrifices for it.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#95. I have learned to find happiness not by possessing wealth and splendor but by giving it away for mankind.
Debasish Mridha
#96. The illusion of confidence is far more important than actually possessing the feeling.
Aprilynne Pike
#97. Wisdom lies not in possessing knowledge
- which quickly becomes outdated -
but in perpetually seeking it.
Paul Johnson
#98. 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
#99. You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure.
Jonathan Edwards
#100. Basically what's happening is I'm pleading guilty to possessing and having plants and not guilty to the charges of supply.
Alan Cinis
