#possess

The possessions of the rich are stolen property. ↗

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

#property #rich #stolen

I just think it's shocking how many of these young people wind up in prison and they get turned into hardcore criminals because they had a possession of a very small amount of controlled substance. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#because #controlled #criminals #get #had

Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man’s inducement to tarry in one spot? Why, therefore, should he build a more cumbrous habitation than can readily be carried off with him? Why should he make himself a prisoner for life in brick, and stone, and old worm-eaten timber, when he may just as easily dwell, in one sense, nowhere,—in a better sense, wherever the fit and beautiful shall offer him a home? ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#possessions #technology #travel #beauty

Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter. ↗

— Paul Klee

#am #color #happy #hour #i

We are not the sum of our possessions. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#possessions #sum

It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document. ↗

— J. Reuben Clark

#constitutes #dependence #document #each #executive

I'm inspired by the sheer ingenuity and intelligence possessed by my fellow band mates. ↗

— Brad Delson

#fellow #i #ingenuity #inspired #intelligence

I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#every #fundamental #fundamental right #i #i believe

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#attempting #display #does #every #every man

Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess. ↗

— Callie Khouri

#how #i #impossible #inside #know