A 'god' who's will is resisted, designs frustrated, and purpose checkmated, possesses no title to Deity.
Everybody allows that to know any other science you must have first studied it, and that you can only claim to express a judgment upon it in virtue of such knowledge. Everybody allows that to make a shoe you must have learned and practised the craft of the shoemaker, though every man has a model in his own foot, and possesses in his hands the natural endowments for the operations required. For philosophy alone, it seems to be imagined, such study, care, and application are not in the least requisite
That man does not possess his estate, but his estate possesses him.
The successful construction of all machinery depends on the perfection of the tools employed; and whoever is a master in the arts of tool-making possesses the key to the construction of all machines. . . The contrivance and construction of tools must therefore ever stand at the head of the industrial arts.
Paint like a fiend when the idea possesses you.
A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.
He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.
Grace is not something one possesses; instead, grace is something one receives.
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.
I've been told my old city possesses a 'thriving arts scene,' whatever that is; personally, I think artists should lie low and stick to their work, not line-dance through the parks.
Moralities and religions are the principal means by which one can make whatever one wishes out of man, provided one possesses a superfluity of creative forces and can assert one's will over long periods of time in the form of legislation and customs.
I had always found comfort in the leaves, in their silence. They were like a parchment that holds words of wisdom. Simply holding them in my hand gave me some of the peace a tree possesses. To be like that-to just be-that's the most noble thing of all.
Money possesses no value to the state other than that given to it by circulation.
All food must be capable of being digested, and that what produces digestion is warmth; that is why everything that has soul in it possesses warmth.
You have to be careful about what you do, about what you say, and that is more dangerous than what was happening with [John] McCarthy, but the technology the government now possesses is so much more insidious.
Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses he will endure or be forgotten.
Hopefully, 21 years later, Judge Roberts possesses an openness with respect to issues of gender-based wage discrimination.
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
Maybe truth is not something that I can possess. Maybe truth is something which possesses me.