Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Now, there are a very large number of bodily movements, having their source in our nervous system, that do not possess the character of conscious actions.
Wilhelm Wundt

Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.
Thomas Kempis

Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it.
Ella Maillart

Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!
James Monroe

Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living.
Rudolf Arnheim

Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.
Emanuel Celler

Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.
Juan Ramon Jimenez

She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.
Louisa May Alcott

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

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

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
Malcolm Cowley

The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle of life which is capable of assimilating the most diverse materials and imprinting her own image upon them.
Christopher Dawson

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
James Madison

The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.
Carter G. Woodson

The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation and enjoy the entire benefits of their own labor.
Leland Stanford

The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.
Henri B. Stendhal

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.
Albert Schweitzer

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
Thomas Babington