Quotes about Possess

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

Martin Luther King Jr.

If you're black in this country, if you're a woman in this country, if you are any minority in this country at all, what could possibly possess you to vote Republican?

M. C. Escher

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.

Dylan Thomas

Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

Plotinus

What they have in common is that if the reviewer did not already possess them, he would long for them most greedily.

Christopher Lehmann haupt

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

Booth Tarkington

Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.

Paul Klee

This year the team seems to possess a lot more character and more depth.

William Kennedy

No indication that terrorists have come to possess dirty bombs.

Alexander Rumyantsev

Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.

George Santayana

If there was anything I thought we didn't do well it was possess the ball. I think if we did that we would've won 3-2, but we can still improve.

Lenny Glasstetter

Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has ''cast up'' in my time or is like to -- this art by which even the ''poor'' can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones. And mustn't it be acting favorably on the morality of the country?

Jane Welsh Carlyle

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?

Frank Herbert

Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward.

Wilma Mankiller

God gave me my money. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God . to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience.

John D. Rockefeller

Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.

Edna Woolman Chase

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

My main concern right now ... is that it leaves the criminal investigations division without people who possess a lot of experience in that area. I'm concerned about what that may do to that division and to solving some of these crimes.

Courtney Cox

Journalism is the art of collecting varying kinds of information (commonly called "news") which a few people possess and of transmitting it to a much larger number of people who are supposed to desire to share it.

Henry R. Luce

We were able to possess the ball, and we shot pretty well. We had a lot of nice crosses; two went off the post. They had a nice keeper who kept them in the game.

Pam Smith

The fundamental idea of modern capitalism is not the right of the individual to possess and enjoy what he has earned, but the thesis that the exercise of this right redounds to the general good.

Ralph B. Perry

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

J. Martin Kohe

We're making a request to the DA to return the medicine to those authorized to possess it.

Steve Bailey

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.

Mark Rutherford

I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.

Yoko Ono

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

Mark Twain

You have to go to a pretty large city to find the kind of educational facilities we possess.

George Mirabal

Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.

Anwar Sadat

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Dag Hammarskjold

Those are four talented, experienced kids. They know how to possess the ball and dictate the tempo of the game.

Greg Oglesby

There aren't many guys in the NFL that are 350 pounds that can move like he can move, that possess both the strength and the athleticism.

Mike Bellotti

Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It's important that we keep the ball. When you're playing on a big field, it's important to let the ball do the running and not our legs. That's when possession becomes key. Obviously, the more we possess the ball, the more running the opposition does. So on the field, keeping the ball is pretty key.

Steve Nicol

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.

Rainer Maria Rilke

While the terrorists possess all kinds of advanced weapons.

Bayan Jabr

Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.

Rod Serling

I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.

David Livingstone

When you possess the ball a lot, you have more looks at the goal. And I think we did a good job with that.

Toni Varacchi

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

George Orwell

ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother of caution. 'My accountability, bear in mind,' Said the Grand Vizier: 'Yes, yes,' Said the Shah: 'I do - 'tis the only kind Of ability you possess.' Joram Tate.

Ambrose Bierce

Students who possess an exceptional musical ability and who desire to be challenged will find the opportunities offered by The Academy both exciting and rewarding.

Jason Palmer

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

George Gurdjieff

It means that all fishermen will only be able to possess and transport seven-times the daily limit of any game fish.

Ron Garavelli

We finally started winning draw controls, so we could possess the ball in midfield rather than come up with a turnover.

Liz Monte

A lot of images that are traded and distributed are old. If they were taken years ago, it doesn't make it any less illegal to possess them.

Grier Weeks

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.

Henry Vandyke

But it is too soon to say from which group they came from, or who inspired them. It's likely they were involved in the earlier conflict and still possess the skills to make bombs.

Firman Gani

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Eugene Delacroix