Best 320 quotes in «possession quotes» category

You are rich. You own. We are poor. We lack. You have. We do not have. Everything is beautiful here, only not the faces. On Anarres nothing is beautiful, nothing but the faces. The other faces. The men and women. We have nothing but that, nothing but each other. Here you see the jewels. There you see the eyes. And in the eyes you see the splendor, the splendor of the human spirit, because our men and women are free possessing nothing. They are free. And you, the possessors are possessed. You are all in jail, each alone, solitary with a heap of what he owns. You live in prison, die in prison. It is all I can see in your eyes, the wall, the wall.

You leaders, where do you lead your people to? Do you sow in them the seed of possession?

Your personal health is your greatest possession; the most significant foundation of any future you will have.

You professors, what do you teach your students? Do you instil in them the spirit of possession?

You professors, what do you teach your students? Do you instill in them the spirit of possession?

Your ideas about possession must increase until you get to a state of full possession of the land, city and nation

After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.

You state here that you believe your daughter, Amy, is no longer with you; that the girl living in your house - who looks and sounds exactly like Amy - is not in fact your daughter. Is this correct? Is this still the case?

You will not mock me—and you will let me finish. I have owned and lost a kingdom, and I have battled death. I have been through all that, and I will not chase after you like some lovesick poet spouting verse. If you wish to call me yours, then you will have to act as if you are mine. On the front of surrender, there is no middle ground.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.

A society in which men recognize no check upon their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few.

A good forgettery is a happier possession than a good memory.

All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience.

An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.

A Society in which the people's wants do not exceed their possessions is not a Socialist society.

A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.

Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?

But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.

Contentment is one of the most distinguishing traits of the godly person, because a godly person has his heart focused on God rather than on possessions or position or power.

Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.

Clutter is what happens to things when they become useless but friendly.

Each possession I own is but a stone around my neck.

Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

Enthusiasm is a divine possession.

Germany must have her place in the sun.

Faith must be tested, because it can be turned into a personal possession only through conflict.

For, if we take an examination of what is generally understood by happiness, as it has respect either to the understanding or the senses, we shall find all its properties and adjuncts will herd under this short definition: that it is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.

Faith obliterates time, annihilates distance, and brings future things at once into its possession.

Gospel possession requires gospel proclamation.

Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.

I am in full possession of the amazing power of being sarcastic.

Happiness is the possession of the excellence proper to us, and of the power subservient to it.

He knew she was there by the joy and terror that took possession of his heart [...] Everything was lit up by her. She was the smile that brightened everything around.

He saw that no one owned anything really. It's all rented, or borrowed. Our possessions will outlast us, we'll desert them in the end.

How many things I can do without!

Humility, in its turn, can be achieved only through faith, fear of God, gentleness and the shedding of all possessions.

I didn't like anyone except me having their hands all over him. There had been possession in Wolf's touch, and Adam belonged to me.

If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would soon regain all the rest

I hate jealousy, I hate possessiveness. I'm nobody's possession.

If God and his grace do not rule us, sin and Satan will have possession of us.

I find all this money a considerable burden.

If truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the truth repulsive.

If you'd be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession.

If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.

If you're prosperous in soul, you'll be prosperous in whole, regardless of how many and how much physical possessions you have

In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.

I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.