#possessions

The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England. ↗

— Peter Stuyvesant

#commissioners #design #directed #england #force

I love things made out of animals. It's just so funny to think of someone saying, "I need a letter opener. I guess I'll have to kill a deer. ↗

— David Sedaris

#deer #possessions #funny

All my possessions for a moment of time. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#possessions #time

My most cherished possessions are my grandma's letters and my vintage Martha Washington cookbook. ↗

— Sandra Lee

#cookbook #grandma #letters #martha #most

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions. ↗

— James Madison

#excess #faculties #his #man #opinions

It's time we permanently repeal the tax on possessions that people leave to their children. ↗

— Bill Nelson

#leave #people #permanently #possessions #repeal

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are. ↗

— James Cash Penney

#great #material #men #possessions #small

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#anything #cannot #great #many #materialistic

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#actually #alignment #attain #begin #beliefs

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions. ↗

— Plutarch

#excellent #extent #i #knowledge #possessions