Possess

Famous quotes containing the word possess:

    I had a consuming ambition to possess a miller’s thumb. I believe I have never since wanted anything more desperately than I wanted my right thumb to be flattened as my father’s had become, during his earlier years of a miller’s life.
    Jane Addams (1860–1935)

    It requires more than a day’s devotion to know and to possess the wealth of a day.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Old Drayton thought that a man that lived here, and would be a poet ... should have in him certain “brave, translunary things,” and a “fine madness” should possess his brain. Certainly it were as well, that he might be up to the occasion.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)