#possess

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#emphatically #his #hope #man #other

From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#any #confidence #down #duration #government

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen. ↗

— Mort Sahl

#deserve #everything #feel #liberals #possessions

Truth is the greatest of all national possessions. A state, a people, a system which suppresses the truth or fears to publish it, deserves to collapse. ↗

— Kurt Eisner

#deserves #fears #greatest #national #people

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#administer #bound #community #good #his

But soon I loved her completely and wished to possess her, own her, absorb her, eat her. I wanted her in my arms and in my bed, I longed she would open her legs to me ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#mysogyny #possession #sex #love

A heart anchored in money will only drift away. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#drift #money #possessions #money

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#else #everyone #heart #i #knowledge

If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#the-dispossessed #science

I spend a quarter of every day inside you. When you set limits outside of that I can't help but see them as arbitrary. ↗