#posse

This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#change #desire #every #his #hospital

The franchise itself gives no real power, unless accompanied by the right on the part of all the possessors of it to elect something like an equal number of representatives. ↗

— John Bright

#elect #equal #franchise #gives #itself

Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them. ↗

— Sitting Bull

#enough #love #mind #possessions #soil

Summon me, then; I will be the posse comitatus; I will take them to jail. ↗

— Samuel Chase

#jail #me #posse #summon #take

To have another language is to possess a second soul. ↗

— Charlemagne

#language #possess #second #soul

It is better to believe that a man does possess good qualities than to assert that he does not. ↗

— John Francis Davis

#believe #better #does #good #good qualities

I've always been attracted to women who are assertive and have confidence - qualities older women possess. They've been on the Earth a little longer. They're more seasoned. They don't play games. They know what they want, and they're not afraid to tell you. ↗

— Taye Diggs

#always #assertive #attracted #been #confidence

We are told that we cannot lose external goods because we never really had them. The beauty of fields or gems is a real good, but it is theirs, not ours. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#beauty

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with. ↗

— James Anthony Froude

#idea #person #possessed #reasoned

You’re fucking special and if I want to act all possessive over you when some stupid art guy hits on you right in front of me, I’m going to. Either that or I’m going to have Ethan chase him down right now so I can punch him in the face. ↗

— Jessica Sorensen

#love #possesiveness #art