Possession Quotes

• Wonder is that possession of the mind that enchants the emotions while never surrendering reason. It is a grasp on reality that does not need constant high points in order to be maintained, nor is it made vulnerable by the low points of life's struggle.

  

  Ravi Zacharias
  • Struggle
  • Constant
  • Maintained

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

  

  James Hetfield Metallica
  • Possession
  • My Family
  • Prized

• Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Fear
  • Arms
  • Cowardice

• Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument. The native intellectual powers of men in different times are not so much the causes of the different success of their labours, as the peculiar nature of the means and artificial resources in their possession.

  

  Humphry Davy
  • Knowledge
  • Possession
  • Labours

• 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

• The possession of power brings on madness.

  

  Ariana Franklin
  • Power
  • Madness
  • Possession

• 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

• In college football brad, you know, when you make a first down, first downs that you have possession of aren't really that important because if you make a first down it stops the clock.

  

  Bob Griese
  • Football
  • Possession
  • Clock

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

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Heart
  • Joy
  • Possession

• My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.

  

  William Lyon Phelps
  • Mind
  • War
  • Religious

• 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

• Within the context of the alchemical vocabulary, the psychedelic experience, as brought to us through plants long in the possession of Aboriginal people, appears to be the identical phenomena.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Plant
  • Psychedelic
  • Identical

• The process of decolonisation in Nigeria was a very untidy one. The British, when they were leaving finally and knew exactly who they wanted to take over, they wanted pliant government, figures, structures, they wanted to continue indirectly in effect their control over much of their colonial possessions and this was one of the very early causes of conflict.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Leaving
  • Causes
  • Conflict

• 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

• 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

• Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Law
  • Possession
  • Points

• 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

• At my age, I realize that my most precious possession is time, and I've got too much unfinished work to do to spend even a minute talking about myself.

  

  Benny Carter
  • Work
  • Talking
  • 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.

  

  Thomas Bulfinch
  • Deserve
  • Claims
  • Mythology

• Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.

  

  Michael Ramsey
  • Reason
  • Prepared
  • Stakes

• 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

• 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

• Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Possession

• The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

  

  George Davis Herron
  • Power
  • Possession
  • Destructive

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