Possess Quotes
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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.
Eugene Delacroix
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...you never possess a cat; you are allowed to be in a cat's life, which, of course, is a privilege.
Beryl Reid
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Nothing compares to pizza, and you discover and rediscover it when you are much too old, and you have got too much cholesterol and triglycerides...A collector is someone who is ready to devour the work of art that he wants to possess at all costs.
Augusto De Luca
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The attitude and reactions of artists toward their art children reveal an attitude similar to that which mothers in general possess toward their children. There is the same sensitivity to any criticism, the same possessive pride.
Beatrice M. Hinkle
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The artist must possess at least as much conviction as does his enemy, the dogmatic, mealy-mouthed, anti-art bigot.
Eric Maisel
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... but that's what mankind is like: they only prize what they no longer possess.
Erich Maria Remarque
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Our greatest strength comes not from what we possess, but from what we believe; not from what we have, but from who we are.
Michael Dukakis
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I don't think I possess any skill that anyone else doesn't have. I've just had perhaps more of an opportunity, more of an exposure, and been fortunate to survive a lot of situations that many other weren't so lucky to make it.
Bob Hoover
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A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately; like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing; when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible.
Honore de Balzac
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Do not trouble yourself for your brethren, for we have already provided lands for them, which they shall possess forever.
Gaius Marius
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We are, after all, only trustees of the wealth we possess. Without the community and its resources... there would be little wealth for anyone.
John Ruskin
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The animate and inanimate creation all contribute to the true worship of God. All of creation must worship at whatever level of sentience they possess. Jesus said if men held back their praise, even the stones might "cry out" in worship.
Ed Buckner
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Love being different, embrace it, share it, live it because being different is not a curse but a gift we all posses that defines who we are and makes the world a better place.
Katie Chapman
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To model an object is to possess it.
Pablo Picasso
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I have, I believe, the courage to doubt everything; I have, I believe, the courage to fight against everything; but I do not have the courage to acknowledge anything, the courage to possess, to own anything.
Soren Kierkegaard
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There is pleasure And there is bliss. Forgo the first to possess the second. If you are happy At the expense of another man's happiness, You are forever bound.
Gautama Buddha
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What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
Cesare Pavese
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I think that there are many ways in which people look for heroes, messiahs, things like that in society. I think some people are looking for something that maybe they don't possess. To me, ultimately, you are looking for someone who understands you, or at least you think understands you. It all comes down to understanding for who we look to as heroes.
Gerard Way
My Chemical Romance