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Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.
Morihei Ueshiba
Nothing
Everything
Possess
Possessed
Those
Who
Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.
Paul Klee
Me
Happy
Will
Possess
Possesses
Color
Pursue
Hour
Know
Always
Am
Meaning
Meaning Of
Painter
The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
Pliny the Elder
Wealth
Lust
Possess
Totally
Seems
Rather
Seized
Than
Avarice
Them
Mankind
Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
Robert Burns
Character
Wish
Cowardly
Resolve
Complaint
Despised
Possess
Firmness
Always
Exertion
Enduring
Whining
God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.
Saint Ambrose
God
Good
Strength
Soul
Heart
Joy
Grace
Gift
Light
Faithful
Enjoy
Our
Possess
Those
See
Supernatural
He
Since
Him
Glory
His
Accustomed
Refusing
Hold
Ask
Us
Who
Let Us
Fast
God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.
Saint Basil
God
Nature
Thoughts
Heart
Disclose
Human Nature
Secret
Our
Possess
Neighbor
Faculty
Share
Since
Another
His
Hearts
Human
Common
Them
Might
Forth
Us
Created
Granted
Who
Each
Bringing
Treasury
Speech
He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
Charles Kingsley
Gift
Men
Power
Every
Possess
Those
Except
He
Almost
Them
Use
Who
Experts often possess more data than judgment.
Colin Powell
Judgment
Possess
Data
More
Than
Often
Experts
I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it.
Elizabeth Taylor
You
Mine
Possess
Admire
Wearing
Gems
Only
Adore
Because
Radiance
I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.
George Sand
Earth
Possess
Those
See
Born
Kings
Brow
Having
More
Only
Bought
Noble
Lord
Were
Truly
Than
Far
Seal
Who
It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.
Gustave Flaubert
Me
Memories
Back
Possess
Seems
Date
Always
Existed
A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.
Henri Matisse
Time
Myself
Light
Long
Long Time
Power
Picture
Possess
Must
Rather
Through
Generate
Real
Been
Real Power
Expressing
Now
Conscious
An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.
Henri Matisse
Nature
Language
Will
Own
Later
Possess
Must
He
Identify
Him
Himself
Mastery
Enable
His
Efforts
Artist
Which
Rhythm
Prepare
Express
Her
A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity.
Herbert Hoover
Humanity
People
Power
Unlimited
Unlimited Power
Possess
Entrusted
Most
Conclusive
Ballot
Hands
Whole
Ever
Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!
James Monroe
Liberty
Country
Our
Possess
New
Most
House
Precious
Lack
May
Many
Things
I'm no expert. I have no psychic powers, and I sure don't possess any secret wisdom. I'm just Janet. I have strengths, weaknesses, fears, happiness, sadness. I experience joy and I experience pain. I'm highly emotional. I'm very vulnerable.
Janet Jackson
Happiness
Wisdom
Experience
Joy
Sadness
Psychic
Fears
Pain
Secret
Possess
Weaknesses
Emotional
Highly
Powers
Sure
Vulnerable
Very
Any
Just
Expert
Strengths
Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Nothing
Enjoy
Else
Possess
Abandon
Object
Give
Gives
Fact
Higher
Through
Generosity
Than
Which
Manner
Away
I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.
Jean Racine
Nothing
Everything
Possess
Although
Am
Still
Want
Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You
Whatever
Possess
Understand
Cannot
The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Time
Happy
Wealth
Men
Few
Earth
Possess
Material
Material Things
Truly
Few Men
Who
Things
Present
Present Time
We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Happiness
Possess
Able
Only
Understand
Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.
Persius
Man
Own
Possess
His
Same
Each
Each Man
Desires
I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
Ralph Ellison
Me
Man
People
Mind
Fiber
Bone
Possess
See
Simply
Invisible
Because
Understand
Said
Am
Liquid
Substance
Refuse
Might
Flesh
Even
It is certain that, because the negligent do not struggle against self, they never achieve peace of soul or do so tardily, and never possess any virtue in its fullness, while the energetic and industrious make notable advances on both fronts.
Saint Ignatius
Struggle
Soul
Peace
Achieve
Virtue
Possess
Both
Self
Never
Advances
Make
Industrious
Because
Any
Fronts
Energetic
While
Against
Notable
Certain
Fullness
It is seen that both matter and radiation possess a remarkable duality of character, as they sometimes exhibit the properties of waves, at other times those of particles. Now, it is obvious that a thing cannot be a form of wave motion and composed of particles at the same time - the two concepts are too different.
Werner Heisenberg
Time
Character
Sometimes
Matter
Seen
Too
Other
Wave
Waves
Possess
Those
Composed
Properties
Both
Remarkable
Particles
Concepts
Obvious
Duality
Motion
Exhibit
Times
Same
Same Time
Different
Form
Cannot
Radiation
Now
Thing
Two
No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
William James
Good
Character
Better
Opportunity
Matter
Every
Possess
Unaffected
Entirely
Remain
Taken
Advantage
How
Concrete
Maxims
May
Sentiments
Act
Full
Reservoir
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