#posse

A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man. ↗

— Isaac Stern

#man #possesses #talent

Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them. ↗

— Gay Talese

#always #bound #considered #down #even

All my possessions for a moment of time. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#possessions #time

The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test. ↗

— Stephen Vizinczey

#between #character #comes #even #imaginations

I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#addict #admire #books #characters #created

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#generosity #gentleness #possession #race #religion

Further, not only the United States, but the French, British, Germans and the United Nations all thought Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction before the United States intervened. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#british #destruction #french #further #germans

Angels possess greater powers than do human beings. ↗

— Walter Lang

#beings #greater #human #human beings #possess

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#appetite #appropriation #child #comes #desire

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#devil #dull #jealous #mad #possessed