Possessing

Famous quotes containing the word possessing:

    Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
    Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

    ...having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
    Bible: New Testament, 2 Corinthians 6:10.

    Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else.
    Simone Weil (1909–1943)