Possess

Famous quotes containing the word possess:

    Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree that we do—namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions.
    Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)

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