The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
You can play anyone if you're open enough. It's a form of possession. Each time you work on something, you allow yourself to be possessed by creating the environment for it. Then you allow the possession to happen - but not at the expense of your sanity or of your identity.
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.
Our style of play is increasingly based on possession of the ball. It suits me as a forward. We've got an attacking approach, and that means that I get a lot of chances; otherwise, I would have not been able to score so many goals.
Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.
The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
I don't know much about football but everyone seems to say that it is all about possession.
Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
There are competing studies on how much crime drops or doesn't drop when there are strict rules on gun possession and sale. I don't think there's any question that New York City's very tough laws have reduced violence.
No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.
An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
The only thing I would like is to have more control of the game in terms of possession.
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.
I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.
It is a principle of our nature that feelings once excited turn readily from the object by which they are excited to some other object which may for the time being take possession of the mind.
When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public.
It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.
Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself - a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.
Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.
Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve.
