Possession Quotes - page 2

At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it. (Yukio Mishima)
The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it. View quote
Anthony Burgess
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession. View quote
George Washington
Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought.... life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence. View quote
Clarice Lispector
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows. View quote
Gaston Bachelard
Our evils are due mainly to the failure to apply to our international relationships knowledge which is of practically universal possession, often self-evident in the facts of daily life and experience. View quote
Norman Angell
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. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
That sort of fundamentalism which treats possession of private property not as a desirable economic and personal asset but as a condition of liberty is a form of primitive religion. View quote
Neil Kinnock
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. View quote
Alexander Smith
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. View quote
Epicurus
As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calendar. Like May 1 or July 14 or December 25, September 11 may seem full of significance to some people, while to other people it is just another day. (J. M. Coetzee)
Happier of happy though I be, like them; I cannot take possession of the sky, Mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, One of a mighty multitude whose way; And motion is a harmony and dance; Magnificent. View quote
William Wordsworth
The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could. View quote
Barbara De Angelis
In one African myth the word for God is even identical with skill and capacity. The Godhead is defined as that thing which appears in man as the mystery of an unusual skill or capacity. It is something divine, a spark of the divinity in him, not his own possession or achievement, but a miracle. View quote
Marie-Louise von Franz
It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. View quote
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Real politics are the possession and distribution of power. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute. View quote
John Keats
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. View quote
Carl Menger
It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him. View quote
Max Planck
Possession is eleven points in the law. (Colley Cibber)
The search for truth is more precious than its possession. View quote
Albert Einstein
True generosity is an offering; given freely and out of pure love. No strings attached. No expectations. Time and love are the most valuable possession you can share. View quote
Suze Orman
Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession. View quote
Fredrik Bajer
Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance. View quote
Hendrik Willem van Loon