Quotes on the topic: Possesses


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A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.


Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative enough to want.


The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support-the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means.


Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.


Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.


Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.


God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true world, and is that world.


I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story.


Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.


Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.


The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.


Two things are as big as the man who possesses them - neither bigger nor smaller. One is a minute, the other a dollar.


A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.


I just love the fact that a man possesses something that a woman can never understand because we don't have the experiences of it and that a woman possesses something that the man doesn't understand because only she possesses it.


He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.


When something possesses me, I go ahead and do it.


There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.