#posses

There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia and China and other nations. I doubt that there is one country amongst those I mentioned which has a desire to see Iran, with its fundamentalist, Islamic, extremist government, possessing nuclear weapons. ↗

— Ehud Olmert

#amongst #britain #china #country #desire

I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it. ↗

— Yoko Ono

#because #dear #i #lose #might

While one party may possess the levers of power, one party does not possess a monopoly on good ideas. Good lawmaking, after all, is about the ability to craft effective solutions. ↗

— Bill Owens

#about #after #craft #does #effective

The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses. ↗

— Lowell Thomas

#credit #given #man #out #possesses

My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#class #colonial #father #important #man

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#every time #give #happens #love #miracle

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty. ↗

— John D. Rockefeller

#duty #every #i #i believe #i believe that

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession. ↗

— John D. Rockefeller

#his #important #man #most #over

Already, in the last few decades, you have realized the utter futility of of encumbering yourselves with superfluous possessions that have no useful virtue, but which, for various sentimental reasons, you continue to hoard, thus lessening your life's efficiency by using for it time and attention that should have been applied to the practical work of life's accomplishments. (The Miracle of the Lily - 1928) ↗

— Clare Winger Harris

#material-possessions #materialism #possessions #uselessness #wasted-time

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