#posses

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#hope #loves #never #occasion #possess

We have people who are healers and those who posses a certain animal magnetism. ↗

— Julian May

#certain #healers #magnetism #people #posses

Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal. ↗

— Isocrates

#our #possessions #wisdom

Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

#amused #called #cut #dress #exercise

Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#confidence #cut #god #great #his

The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose. ↗

— J. Martin Kohe

#greatest #person #possesses #power

We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#cases #countries #essential #even #made

A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human. ↗

— Georges Rouault

#character #expression #figure #human #interest

The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions. ↗

— Georges Rouault

#certain #death #face #give #off

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness. ↗

— John Ruskin

#increased #loads #new #possession #us