#posses

They that possess the prince possess the laws. ↗

— John Dryden

#possess #prince

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#back #date #existed #i #me

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it. ↗

— Simone Weil

#does #first #force #intoxicates #man

I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#conceive #day #i #i do #into

As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with clarity, I became more and more alienated from that which my companions held, or professed to hold. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#became #began #clarity #companions #discover

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#away #demands #feat #life #only

There is one Quality, which has somewhat so heavenly in it; that by so much the more we are possess'd of it, by so much the more we draw nearer to the Great Author of Nature. ↗

— Eliza Haywood

#draw #great #heavenly #more #much

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#completely #few #hope #low #none

God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible. ↗

— King Hussein I

#become #beliefs #believe #flexible #god

After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#been #burned #gave #god #had