Possess

Famous quotes containing the word possess:

“Comfort and convenience possess a magical power; little by little they suck in even people with strong wills.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

“To possess your soul in patience, with all the skin and some of the flesh burnt off your face and hands, is a job for a boy compared with the pains of a man who has lived pretty long in the exhilarating world that drugs or strong waters seem to create and is trying to live now in the first bald desolation created by knocking them off.”
—C.E. (Charles Edward)

“Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,—the sweet, without the other side,—the bitter.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)