#posses

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it. ↗

— Voltaire

#enables #get #possess #reason #those

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it. ↗

— Simone Weil

#does #first #force #intoxicates #man

I didn't know box office was a thing you could possess but I don't have it. I go up for lovely roles and people with this nebulous thing called box office get them so there isn't much I can do about that unless you know where I can get some box-office myself! ↗

— Olivia Williams

#box #box office #box-office #called #could

I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#conceive #day #i #i do #into

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters. ↗

— John Wooden

#eyes #great #knows #lord #material

The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#different #each #evidence #gifts #indicates

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#figure #glasses #looking #man #natural

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men. ↗

— Billy Graham

#men #nothing #possess #possessing #riches

As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with clarity, I became more and more alienated from that which my companions held, or professed to hold. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#became #began #clarity #companions #discover

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing. ↗

— Philip Guston

#picturing #possessing #rather #than