#possess

When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions. ↗

— Morrie Schwartz

#fences #how #individualize #look #our

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#adversity #gains #obstacles #only #overcome

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. ↗

— Walter Scott

#call #himself #history #knowledge #lawyer

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#body #called #democracy #people #possessed

Cambodia possesses now the rights to look far into the future and everything for making a future construction is waiting for the Cambodian own efforts. ↗

— Hun Sen

#construction #efforts #everything #far #future

I can't tell you how many people have asked me to show them Stray Cat Strut and that little diminished run on the C. I guess my brain is wired backwards. I don't know what possessed me to do that, but I did. ↗

— Brian Setzer

#backwards #brain #cat #did #diminished

We have evidence that Iran makes a reactor to possess nuclear weapons. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#iran #makes #nuclear #nuclear weapons #possess

It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department. ↗

— Robert Shea

#degree #department #every #extraordinary #happens

There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed. ↗

— Gail Sheehy

#denial #exclusively #man #more #possess

It is a principle of our nature that feelings once excited turn readily from the object by which they are excited to some other object which may for the time being take possession of the mind. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#excited #feelings #may #mind #nature