#possess

What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#environment #environmental-protection #materialism #possessions #environment

After a week passed it had dawned on me what I was and, more importantly, that I needed to do a little more research before climbing into one of you people. ↗

— Michael Siemsen

#possession #home

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” - Lord Henry Wotton. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#capitalism #material #money #possessions #priorities

Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect. ↗

— George Bancroft

#no respect #obtain #people #possess #respect

Experience has taught me to believe that, these human beans are the most insidious enemies man, with a tendency to corpulence in advanced life, can possess, though eminently friendly to youth. ↗

— William Banting

#beans #believe #eminently #experience #friendly

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men? ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

#grab #ignore #like #men #possessions

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#good #good nature #honor #knowledge #money

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#liberty #most #possessions #precious

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#entirety #guilty #his #knowing #library

Europe has united, China is growing speedily and Russia possesses immense power in terms of fuel resources. The US administration cannot do anything about it. ↗

— Vladimir Zhirinovsky

#administration #anything #cannot #china #europe