#posses

The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century. ↗

— Balthus

#century #craft #disappeared #evidence #hardly

Iraq is not the only nation in the world to possess weapons of mass destruction, but it is the only nation with a leader who has used them against his own people. ↗

— Tom Daschle

#destruction #his #iraq #leader #mass

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#hope #loves #never #occasion #possess

We have people who are healers and those who posses a certain animal magnetism. ↗

— Julian May

#certain #healers #magnetism #people #posses

I'm not possessive, I'm caring... Once you realize a person doesn't want that much care, you automatically back off. ↗

— Salman Khan

#back #care #caring #i #much

Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess. ↗

— Callie Khouri

#how #i #impossible #inside #know

That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity. ↗

— Hans Kung

#being #color #dignity #distinction #every

There was a period when I believed stuff meant something. I thought that if you had matching side chairs and a sofa that harmonized and some beautiful lamps to light them you would have a home, that elegance signaled happiness. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#stuff #things #beauty

Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#apostles #beings #claimed #explanation #havoc

The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#after #any #anybody #argument #authoritarian