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What you possess is not what you jingle in the pockets of your memory, but the imaginings with which you fill the spaces of the future.
Elizabeth Bibesco
Future
You
Memory
Possess
Pockets
Spaces
Which
Your
Fill
Imagining
I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it - why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?
Ella Maillart
Man
Wish
Rose
Otherwise
Everything
Possess
Marry
Instinctively
Sure
Am
Cut
Why
Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it.
Ella Maillart
Possess
Able
Only
Grasp
The ministers of Christ should possess refinement. All uncouth manners, attitudes and gestures should be discarded, and they should encourage in themselves humble dignity of bearing.
Ellen G. White
Dignity
Humble
Christ
Manners
Possess
Ministers
Bearing
Uncouth
Attitudes
Discarded
Encourage
Refinement
Gestures
Themselves
Should
Men, who certainly possess not only the savvy but also the know-how to be funny, for some reason, are just not. I began to notice this at a pretty young age, and unfortunately, a lifetime of living - and not a little bit of regret - hasn't done much to convince me otherwise.
Ellie Kemper
Funny
Me
Age
Regret
Men
Young
Living
Otherwise
Savvy
Bit
Possess
Some
Pretty
Only
Lifetime
Know-How
Also
Began
Done
Just
Young Age
Unfortunately
Little
Little Bit
Much
Convince
Notice
Certainly
Reason
Who
Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.
Emanuel Celler
Love
Humor
Broad
Philosophy
Possess
Intuition
Inspiration
He
Adventure
Wit
None
His
Friendly
Did
Little
Roosevelt
Manner
The passion for art is, as for believers, very religious. It unites people, its message is of common humanity. Art has become my religion - others pray in church. It's a banality, but you don't possess art, it possesses you. It's like falling in love.
Francois Pinault
Love
Art
Religion
You
Humanity
People
Passion
Church
Become
Others
Possess
Possesses
Religious
Like
Message
Pray
Falling
Falling In Love
Banality
Very
Common
Believers
Unites
Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Life
Value
Be True
Resort
Symptoms
Consideration
Possess
Only
Never
True
Come
Concerning
Stupidities
Judgments
Against
Themselves
Last
The great majority of men are attracted to feminine women who do not possess the body type of Michael Phelps. Beyonce is desired not because of her 'diabolical femininity,' but simply because of her femininity.
Gad Saad
Great
Women
Men
Type
Possess
Great Majority
Simply
Beyonce
Attracted
Majority
Because
Diabolical
Feminine
Femininity
Michael
Body
Who
Her
Desired
Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them.
Gay Talese
Women
Men
Own
Down
Other
Settled
Considered
Possess
Would
Magazine
Had
He
Volumes
Bound
Always
Still
His
Families
Modeling
Hugh
Stopped
After
Them
Hefner
Even
Playboy
Raise
There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
People
Genius
Before
Possess
Perceiving
Talent
Itself
Decade
Done
Century
Much
Certain
Who
Even
Desires
All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they possess; therefore there is little chance of the trade being, for many years, totally abolished.
George Grey
People
Wealth
Possess
Consists
Abolish
Totally
Town
Principal
Concerned
Trade
Years
Chief
Being
Little
Many
Therefore
Slave
Chance
Number
Slaves
Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
George Santayana
Knowledge
Possess
We Cannot
Recognition
Embrace
Eating
Something
Absent
Devour
Expect
Salutation
Cannot
Mean
It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly possess the necessary information to solve some of them.
Georges Cuvier
Problem
Before
Resolved
Say
Evident
Possess
Solve
Some
About
Having
Questions
Anything
Cannot
Information
Them
Preliminary
Hardly
Necessary
Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.
Hale White
Myself
Every
Virtue
Worry
Possess
Faculty
Instrument
Which
Used
The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.
Herbie Hancock
Wisdom
Possess
Machines
Ability
Exhibit
Thing
History offers us vicarious experience. It allows the youngest student to possess the ground equally with his elders; without a knowledge of history to give him a context for present events, he is at the mercy of every social misdiagnosis handed to him.
Hilary Mantel
Knowledge
History
Experience
Events
Mercy
Every
Possess
Give
Student
He
Him
Equally
Without
Context
His
Handed
Offers
Social
Elders
Us
Youngest
Ground
Present
Nothing we read can import new or foreign feelings that we don't, in one form or another, already possess.
Hisham Matar
Feelings
Nothing
Possess
New
Import
Read
Another
Foreign
Form
I have been lucky to meet some incredible people who do not possess what you would traditionally class as power, but through their charisma, passion, and strength of character, they are able to achieve things that 'richer or more powerful people' could only dream of.
Holly Branson
Strength
Character
You
Class
People
Passion
Achieve
Power
Incredible
Meet
Possess
Dream
Would
Charisma
Able
Some
More
Only
Could
Through
Powerful
Powerful People
Been
Richer
Who
Lucky
Things
I can't begin to try to articulate the competitive nature I possess.
Iman Shumpert
Nature
Try
Possess
Begin
Articulate
Competitive
I now possess the tools as a producer and a songwriter to really just go out and make smashes all day long. I could make an album full of smash records that got pop appeal. But my heart is in hip-hop. My heart is in telling stories. And it's like therapy for me.
J. Cole
Day
Me
Heart
Long
Tools
Possess
All Day
Out
Telling
Records
Could
Songwriter
Smash
Like
Make
Got
Hip-Hop
Go
Just
Stories
Producer
Really
Pop
Full
Therapy
Appeal
Now
Album
For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.
J. D. Vance
People
Own
Group
Society
Other
Possess
Ways
Consistently
Favor
Ours
Some
Perceive
About
Percent
Data
Studied
Scholars
Implicit
Biases
How
Affect
Decades
Which
Us
Prejudices
Shows
You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
J. Martin Kohe
Day
You
Every Day
Every
Hundreds
Possess
Potent
Force
Misuse
Times
Either
Use
A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.
James Boswell
Man
Possess
Some
Qualities
Himself
Friend
May
Which
Loves
Companion
Agreeable
How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not - have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy these, then, and bless God that we are permitted to enjoy them, rather than importune His goodness with vain longings for more.
Jane Welsh Carlyle
God
Goodness
Enjoy
Vain
Others
Possess
Rather
More
Idea
Bless
How
Permitted
His
Than
Precious
Precious Things
Which
Them
Then
Us
Many
Let Us
Hardly
Things
Some of my favorite movies are action movies. You want something good to say. That comes from good writing. But writing is not a skill I possess, unfortunately.
Jason Statham
Good
You
Writing
Action
Say
Possess
Favorite
Favorite Movies
Some
Something
Something Good
Good Writing
Want
Unfortunately
Movies
Skill
Action Movies
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