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We've found 57 quotes for 'possession' (0.194 seconds):


Movies:  Earthly Possessions (1999) Possession (2002/I) Witchboard III: The Possession (1995)


"The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled." »Andrew Carnegie 
"Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together." »Robert Reich 
"Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife." »Euripides 
"possession is eleven points in the law." »Colley Cibber 
"Freedom is a possession of inestimable value." »Cicero 
"The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession." »Mark Twain 
"Every increased possession loads us with new weariness." »John Ruskin 
"Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived." »Jonathan Swift 
"The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it." »Mark Twain, Following the Equator 
"A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one." »Simonides 
"Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them." »Napoleon Bonaparte 
"Memory is a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor." »Alexander Smith 
"I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession a duty." »John D. Rockefeller Jr. 
"An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit." »Pliny the Younger 
"The people are not to be disarmed of their weapons. They are left in full possession of them." »Zachariah Johnson 
"I believe that every right implies a responsibility every opportunity an obligation every possession a duty." »John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr. 
"I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there." »Confucius, The Confucian Analects 
"Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you." »Andr Gide 
"I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there." »Confucius 
"Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul. Men must not turn into bees, and kill themselves in stinging others." »Sir Francis Bacon 
"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship." »Epicurus 
"The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world." »Max Born 
"The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile virtue is a possession glorious and eternal." »Sallust 
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife." »Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice 
"Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed." »Vida D. Scudder 
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." »Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice 
"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort." »Franklin Delano Roosevelt 
"We are certainly getting ahead; if I am Moses, then you are Joshua and will take possession of the promised land of psychiatry, which I shall only be able to glimpse from afar." »Sigmund Freud, Letter to Carl Jung, January 17, 1909 
"We are certainly getting ahead if I am Moses, then you are Joshua and will take possession of the promised land of psychiatry, which I shall only be able to glimpse from afar." »Sigmund Freud 
"The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest of human creature that walks." »Thomas Bailey Aldrich 
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