#posses

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #posses




The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human needs lives a Godward life, possessed by God and witnessing that only when lives are utterly possessed by God do they find their true freedom.


Arthur Middleton


#christ #death #find #form #freedom

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.


Michel de Montaigne


#discreetly #even #how #knows #possessor

We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.


Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu


#citizen #constantly #could #difference #doing

You get very possessive about characters, you feel you can see it in your mind and you want to play it.


Samantha Morton


#characters #feel #get #mind #play

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.


Friedrich Nietzsche


#friends #good #good writer #his #only

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.


Friedrich Nietzsche


#art #possess #quality #striving #strong

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

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.


James Cash Penney


#great #material #men #possessions #small

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.


Peace Pilgrim


#anything #cannot #great #many #materialistic

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.


Peace Pilgrim


#actually #alignment #attain #begin #beliefs