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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

Aristotle

Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

Aristotle

Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing.

William Shakespeare

People who are accused of possessing firearms will be released on bail because it's a constitutional right.

Selwyn Pieters

Best friends are best friends, but possessing drugs will ruin life and is against the law.

John Mott

It is our current assessment that the gaming commission, as well as public opinion, will more than likely favor those gaming applicants possessing the greater magnitude of scope in their proposal.

Merrill Stabile

They all admitted to possessing the weapons.

Bill Proffitt

Somehow, not only for Christmas but all the long year through, The joy that you give to others Is the joy that comes back to you. And the more you spend in blessing The poor and lonely and sad, The more of your heart's possessing Returns to you glad.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Industry is not only the instrument of improvement, but the foundation of pleasure. He who is a stranger to it may possess, but cannot enjoy, for it is labor only which gives relish to pleasure. It is the indispensable condition of possessing a sound mind in a sound body, and it is the appointed vehicle of every good to man.

Robert Blair

It's hard to understand, but I can only speculate that the jury compromised. Still, how can you find someone guilty of possessing something and not storing it?

Stephan Seeger

Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.

Vida D. Scudder

If the unexamined life is not worth living, the unexamined past is not worth possessing; it bears fruit only by being held continuously up to the light, and is as changeable and as full of surprises, pleasant and unpleasant, as the future.

Brendan Gill

We need to do a little better job of possessing the ball, and up top, we've to find a way to score the ball.

Will Stoskopf

The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.

Ruth Bernhard

PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it.

Ambrose Bierce

We talked about playing at a faster pace, possessing the ball, taking care of the ball and shooting better. I thought we did all of those things fairly well.

Jon Birsner

No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed.

Sara Teasdale

Cuthbertson did what all good pitchers do -- he managed to have a good game without possessing his best stuff.

Steve Ramharter

As Japan is the only country that has suffered nuclear attack, it is not acceptable for it to have more nations possessing nuclear arms.

Osamu Miyata

These achievements are possible because as a community we are better educated. DoD civilian women have demonstrated an increase in the percentage of those holding bachelor's degrees or higher from 23 percent in 1995 to 32 percent in 2005, with 62 percent more women possessing masters degrees or above in 2005.

Marilee Fitzgerald

There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.

Clive Bell

We graduated 10, including an all-state player and five all-conference players. Last year we really had the horses to lay on the offense. This year, we have an organized defense, which is good. Our midfield is still trying to find itself. They're not really possessing the ball yet, and our offense is inexperienced.

John Ziperski

What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - possessing them - that what has been said has still not been said enough.

Eugene Delacroix

Mr. Fountain is looking at a maximum of 10 years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine for the simple act of possessing that firearm, having been convicted previously of a felony.

Don Degabrielle

The guys played a great first half possessing the ball and communicating. Drew Martin had some good saves for us in the goal.

Toni Varacchi

I think they held a 70/30 edge on us in possessing the ball during the first half. We did a little better in the last 30 minutes of the game but by then they had a three-goal lead.

Jim Tufts

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps