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Not everyone needs to possess every ounce of human knowledge to survive. I mean, that's what Google is for.
— Abby McDonald
All that is great cannot be possessed - and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing. We want to possess.
— Osho
It's noble to be skilled, but ultimately people pay for solutions your skills can provide not the skills you possess
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
Your lifelong rebellion against all forms of authority stems from the infant's desire to murder the father and possess the mother.
— Donald O'Donovan
He'd risk everything for you, Sam," Wyatt said. "He'd trade heaven for an eternity in the depths of hell to possess you.
— Debra Dunbar
To possess something and not know its value is torturous.
— Sunday Adelaja
If our Trade be taxed, why not our Lands, or Produce in short, everything we possess? They tax us without having legal representation.
— Samuel Adams
I find that most channeled discourses possess the spiritual and philosophical sophistication of a Dick-and-Jane book.
— D. Scott Rogo
When we have done everything within our power, we shall possess a great deal: but we once possessed the world.
— Seneca.
True happiness that stands the taste of time comes by recognizing and appreciating what we do possess.
— Ogwo David Emenike
In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.
— Aristotle.
The power of a thing is not based on the power it actually possesses. Rather, it is much more about the power that we permit it to possess.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
— Pliny The Elder
The acme of freedom from wealth is to desire to be possessionless even as others desire to possess.
— Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov
Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost will.
— D.H. Lawrence
Personally, I'm tired of hearing the whole have-you-no-decency routine from people who have made quite clear that they possess none themselves.
— Glenn Reynolds
You can only possess beauty through understanding it.
— John Ruskin
The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is a gain.
— Norman Cousins
Time, and repeated screenings, have endowed the memory with a menace the original did not possess. -The Secret History, pg. 260
— Donna Tartt
We cannot love others as others unless we possess suficient self-love, a love we learn from being loved in infancy.
— Judith Viorst
By touching you may kill, by keeping away you may possess.
— Rabindranath Tagore
We can possess many great lands by faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
KINDNESS IS one of the most powerful qualities a person can possess. It is like a gentle rain that falls everywhere, without excluding a single place.
— Eline Snel
The sub has the upper hand in a true Master and sub relationship, Thomas. Always. I can possess you only as long as you want to belong to me.
— Joey W. Hill
The orchestra whirls me wider than Uranus flies, It wrenches such ardors from me I did not know I possess'd them
— Walt Whitman
Nature gives you the face you possess at twenty . . . Life the face you possess at thirty. But the face you have at fifty is the face you deserve.
— Karleen Koen
But who names a starship the Icarus? What kind of man possess that much hubris, that he dares it to fall?
— Amie Kaufman
What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The average person is full of artificial desires, desires that have been suggested by what other people possess or require.
— Christian D. Larson
You can seize away my opportunities but never the passion that I possess.
— Harshada Pathare
Do you want to make it impossible for anyone to oppress his fellow-man? Then make sure that no one shall possess power.
— Mikhail Bakunin
God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.
— Euripides
I read and feel that same compulsion; the desire to possess what he has written, which can only be subdued by writing something myself.
— Patti Smith
These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!
— Alexander Pope
She grabbed his hair and pulled his mouth tighter against her lips. She wanted to possess and devour him.
— Alan Kinross
The key to understanding if something is truly precious is to ask if we can hold it, for things truly precious cannot be held.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
That which I cannot hold is that which I can treasure the most because it affords me no burden other than to enjoy it.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.
— D.H. Lawrence
None are so desolate but something dear, Dearer than self, possesses or possess'd A thought, and claims the homage of a tear.
— Lord Byron
The science of loving, yes, that's the only kind of science I want I'd barter away everything I possess to win it.
— Therese Of Lisieux
What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.
— David Mitchell
If you possess a gentle spirit will move mountains.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Carrie is my child, and I love her with every ounce of strength I possess. If love alone could cure our children, they would always be well.
— Debbie Reynolds
I'd much rather buy an experience than something I can possess in the material world
— Ashly Lorenzana
Irony, perfect definition: that for which I want to possess it, I would no longer want once I possessed it.
— Karen Marie Moning
It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.
— Gustave Flaubert
The strong desires of man's insatiate breast may stand possess'd Of all that earth can give; but earth can give no rest.
— Francis Quarles
Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd.
— John Milton
When we love and want nothing but good for that person, it's one of the greatest gifts we possess.
— Anne Rice
I will possess you so entirely that you will ask for permission to fucking breathe.
— D.H. Sidebottom
We part more easily with what we possess, than with our expectations of what we wish for; because expectation always goes beyond enjoyment.
— Henry Home, Lord Kames
To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.
— Nicolas Chamfort
We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.
— Elbert Hubbard
Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.
— Heraclitus
Girls dropping out of school because of early and unwanted pregnancies. The reason? They did not realize the value they possess in their body.
— Sunday Adelaja
I am prepared to sacrifice every so-called privilege I possess in order to have a few rights.
— Inez Milholland
It is of no use to possess a lively wit if it is not of the right proportion: the perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate.
— Luc De Clapiers
Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
— Honore De Balzac
Life only demands from you the strength you possess.
— Dag Hammarskjold
However you arrive at the ability to ignore self-doubt - if you can acquire it or possess it or find it or discover it - move beyond self-doubt.
— Dwight Yoakam
Beauty and desire to possess have driven men mad for centuries.
— Hannah Rothschild
Nothing is more piquant than when a man of genius possesses mannerisms; not so when they possess him
this leads to spiritual petrification. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
this leads to spiritual petrification. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
So many beautiful things, I cannot possess them all!
— Bill Bailey
If you want to possess things - money; if you want to possess yourself - meditation. And if you possess yourself, money loses all meaning.
— Rajneesh
Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess.
— John C. Maxwell
It is because people live in the things they possess instead of in their relationship to God that God seems at times to be cruel.
— Grace Livingston Hill
The ignorant majority, which does however possess one thing in abundance: It is raring for a fight.
— Elfriede Jelinek
We should not stop to reflect, compare, analyze, possess, but flow on and through, endlessly, like music.
— Henry Miller
No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.
— Alfred Austin
To my mind, most prose poems are more prose than poetry. They don't possess most of the qualities of a poem.
— Pattiann Rogers
A man who really wants you will do whatever he must to possess your love. So set a standard.
— Michelle McKinney Hammond
It is far better to appreciate and not to possess, than to possess and not to appreciate.
— Lilian Whiting
He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
It is the triumph of reason to get on well with those who possess none,
— Gregory Benford
I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage.
— Arsenio Hall
If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
— Dale Carnegie
And, as a mere matter of ficfect, I tell of myself how I popo possess the ripest littlums wifukie around the globelettes globes (...)
— James Joyce
Angels possess greater powers than do human beings.
— Walter Lang
To the ego, loving and wanting are the same, whereas true love has no wanting in it, no desire to possess or for your partner to change.
— Eckhart Tolle
I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it - why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?
— Ella Maillart
The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed.
— Colin Wilson
Children possess a remarkable amount of passion. They throw themselves completely, heart and soul, into everything.
— Mary Lou Retton
The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess.
— Friedrich August Von Hayek
Taking what is, then making it into what it can be through the power of creation that we all possess.
— Steven Redhead
(how well Stoicism hides what one does not possess!);
— Friedrich Nietzsche
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
You possess strength for everyday life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita