Possession Quotes

• All religions, with their gods, their demigods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the credulous fancy of men who had not attained the full development and full possession of their faculties.

  

  Mikhail Bakunin
  • Religion
  • Development
  • Messiah

• I used to lie down on the grass and draw the blades as they grew - until every square foot of meadow, or mossy bank, became a possession to me.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Possession
  • Grass
  • Meadow

• Freedom' is the most expensive possession there is; it has to be paid for with loneliness.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • Freedom
  • Loneliness
  • Paid

• It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Truth
  • Error
  • Possession

• Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.

  

  Lord Byron
  • People
  • Reason
  • Possession

• He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983.

  

  Sandy Berger
  • Destruction
  • Iraq
  • Mass

• Health is the greatest possession.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Health
  • Possession

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

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Charity
  • Possession
  • Cheerfulness

• Our mind is the most valuable possession that we have. The quality of our lives is, and will be, a reflection of how well we develop, train, and utilize this precious gift.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Mind
  • Quality
  • Reflection

• It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.

  

  Henry James Sumner Maine
  • World
  • Events
  • Western

• I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Want
  • Giving
  • Solitude

• Nothing's really a prized possession except my family, you know?

  

  James Hetfield Metallica
  • Possession
  • My Family
  • Prized

• The attitudes of others toward a child's capacities are far more important than his possession of particular traits. The fact of any handicap is not nearly so vital as the reactions toward it of those around him.

  

  Dorothy Corkille Briggs
  • Child
  • Reactions
  • Attitudes

• Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Poetry
  • Mankind
  • Possession

• Men love to trust God (as they profess) for what they have in their hands, in possession, or what lies in an easy view; place their desires afar off, carry their accomplishment behind the clouds out of their sight, interpose difficulties and perplexities -- their hearts are instantly sick. They cannot wait for God; they do not trust Him, nor ever did. Would you have the presence of God with you? Learn to wait quietly for the salvation you expect from Him.

  

  Owen Wilson
  • Sick
  • Desires
  • Salvation

• Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Heart
  • Joy
  • Possession

• Wherever there is possession of marks, there is fraud ; wherever there is no-possession of no-marks, there is no fraud. Hence the Tathagata is to be seen from no-marks as marks.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Possession
  • Fraud
  • Marks

• I feel quite unable to adopt the opinion that the moment goods pass into the possession of the consumer they cease altogether to have the attributes of capital.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Moments
  • Opinion
  • Consumers

• My hold on the past and the future is precarious and my possession of my own time is always postponed until a stage when I may fully understand it, yet this stage can never be reached, since it would be one more moment bounded by the horizon of its future, and requiring in its turn, further developments in order to be understood.

  

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty
  • Future
  • Development
  • Possession

• Misfortune sprinkles ashes on the head of the man, but falls like dew on the heart of the woman, and brings forth gems of strength of which she herself had no conscious possession.

  

  Anna Cora Mowatt
  • Strength
  • Possession
  • Misfortune

• There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Suffer
  • Possession
  • Truths

• People who don't have the interest or aptitude for serious college studies at age 18 may find that later in life they do, but those who enroll just because they think that the mere possession of a college degree is the passport to success will just dig themselves a financial hole.

  

  George Leef
  • People
  • Thinking
  • College

• The principal sources of human misery may fairly be said to lie in the over-possession, under-possession, and the unwise use of economic goods.

  

  Georgia Harkness
  • Possession
  • Goods
  • Human Misery

• To a greater or lesser degree, the project of the self becomes translated into one of the possession of desired goods and the pursuit of artificially framed styles of life. (...) Not just lifestyles, but self-actualisation is packaged and distributed according to market criteria.

  

  Anthony Giddens
  • Style
  • Lifestyle
  • Degrees

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