#posse

THE rich possess ample means to realize any theory they may chuse to adopt in the education of their children, regardless of the cost; but it is not so with him whose Subsistence is derived from industry. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#ample #any #children #cost #derived

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. ↗

— John Lennon

#everybody #only #own #people #possession

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#mind #possession #prized #quality #state

The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else. ↗

— Brian May

#excitement #grit #guitar #kind #nothing

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

— James Monroe

#house #lack #liberty #likened #many

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#freedom #illusion #longer #merely #posses

To possess taste, one must have some soul. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#possess #some #soul #taste

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#be true #come #concerning #consideration #into

Great wealth took possession of the government. It was reflected in Mr. Harding's selection of a cabinet. ↗

— George William Norris

#government #great #harding #mr #possession

It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#being #body #claim #enter #her