Possess

Famous quotes containing the word possess:

    That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
    Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person’s name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.
    Stephen Vizinczey (b. 1933)

    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)