Possesses Quotes

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
Khalil Gibran

Love, Nor, Possessed

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.
Benjamin Franklin

Him, Wealth, Possess

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Good, Friends, Spirit

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Woman, Away, Her

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
Albert Schweitzer

Strength, Adversity, Obstacles

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Religion, Art, Science

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Keep, Fact, Secret

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Good, Home, Countries

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
Andrew Carnegie

Money, Nothing, Else

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
Salvador Dali

Good, Power, Alone

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friends, Tell, Sheep

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.
Peace Pilgrim

Age, Great, Cannot

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
Henry Miller

Wisdom, Give, Sense

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
Andre Gide

Giving, Give, Complete

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.
Sophocles

Men, Alone, Mind

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
Walter Scott

History, Knowledge, May

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
Simone Weil

Truth, Second, Nobody

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.
Heinrich Heine

Death, Envy, Understand

In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.
Desmond Tutu

Person, Why, Cannot

The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

Power, True, Person

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
Saint Teresa of Avila

When something possesses me, I go ahead and do it.
Ang Lee

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

Happy, Meaning, Color

I just love the fact that a man possesses something that a woman can never understand because we don't have the experiences of it and that a woman possesses something that the man doesn't understand because only she possesses it.
Cameron Diaz

Love, Woman, Understand

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.
Christopher Columbus

Wishes, Treasure, Gold

It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department.
Robert Shea

Nature, Person, Him

The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
Edgar Quinet

Future, Past, Humanity

It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.
Charles Babbage

Knowledge, Public, Degree

According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body.
Annie Dillard

Person, Body, Culture

Cambodia possesses now the rights to look far into the future and everything for making a future construction is waiting for the Cambodian own efforts.
Hun Sen

Future, Waiting, Everything

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