#possession

Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit! ↗

— Mother Jones

#child #city #city hall #day #hall

Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable. ↗

— Meir Kahane

#every #every man #happiness #his #judges

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions. ↗

— Stefan Kanfer

#away #cannot #explained #grief #life

This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#intimate #literature #most #part #possession

I would also point out that many governments that chose not to support this war - certainly, the French president, Jacques Chirac, as I recall in April of last year, referred to Iraq's possession of WMD. ↗

— David Kay

#april #certainly #chirac #chose #french

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute. ↗

— John Keats

#brood #could #death #hour #i

To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death. ↗

— Peter Tosh

#found #guilty #possession #sentenced #truth

The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession, and of which it could not with its own citizens ever have taken possession. ↗

— William H. Wharton

#could #ever #government #granted #had

I sold my most valuable possession, but I knew that because I worked at Hewlett Packard, I could buy the next model calculator the very next month for a lower price than I sold the older one for! ↗

— Steve Wozniak

#buy #calculator #could #i #knew

India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West. ↗

— Gary Wright

#changed #content #even #happy #how