#posses

An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten. ↗

— Constance Rourke

#deep #emotion #emotional #forgotten #humor

I did not want to put myself on the line, as an Australian playing Britain's greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive, possessive - and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger - or my own reputation. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#aggressive #anger #australian #britain #comic

Germany can generally only pay if the Corridor and Upper Silesia will be handed back to Germany from Polish possession, and if besides somewhere on the earth colonial territory will be made available to Germany. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#back #besides #colonial #corridor #earth

Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist. ↗

— Alfred Sisley

#beholder #craft #highest #his #loveliness

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#give #help #help people #imaginary #insecure

Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession. ↗

— Julia Ward Howe

#blood #disarm #dishonor #does #indicate

Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties. ↗

— James Jeans

#because #carbon #certain #exceptional #exists

The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than any single possession. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#independence #more #only #ourselves #possession

For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished freedom is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while there was still time. ↗

— George Sutherland

#carved #epitaph #failed #forth #freedom

Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#sharing #change