Possessing Quotes

When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.

Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size.

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

What is it about possessing things? Why do we feel the need to own what we love, and why do we become jerks when we do? We`ve all been there-- you want something, to possess it. By possessing something you lose it. You finally win the girl of your dreams, the first thing you do is change her. The little things she does with her hair, the way she wears her clothes or the way she chews her gum. Pretty soon what you like, what you changed, what you don`t like, blends together like a watercolor in the rain.

It was used for decades to describe talented computer enthusiasts, people whose skill at using computers to solve technical problems and puzzles was - and is - respected and admired by others possessing similar technical skills.

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.

The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence.

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.

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.

But we find that we are men,-actual men, possessing all the turbulent passions belonging to that animal, and that we must have a government proper and adequate for him.

From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war.

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

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.