Possession Quotes
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The time period lying between command of goods of a higher order and possession of the corresponding goods of lower order can never be eliminated.
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Health is the greatest possession.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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The stages of human development are to strive for: (1) Besitz Possession (2) Wissen Knowledge (3) Können Ability (4) Sein Being.
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Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.
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My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.
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My goal is to win the next game one possession at a time. That's it. I don't have any other goals
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession.
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Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.
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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.
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The land, the earth God gave to man for his home ... should never be the possession of any man, corporation, (or) society ... any more than the air or water.
