Possessing Quotes - Page 9

• La possession de ce qu'on aime est une joie plus grande encore que l'amour. Possessing what one loves is an even greater joy than love itself.

  Marcel Proust

  Love Is, Joy, One Love

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• Mr Palliser was one of those politicians in possessing whom England has perhaps more reason to be proud than of any other of her resources, and who, as a body, give to her that exquisite combination of conservatism and progress which is her present strength and best security for the future.

  Anthony Trollope

  Giving, Progress, Body

  1864 Can You Forgive Her?, ch.24.

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• Thirty or forty proprietors, with incomes answering to between one thousand and five thousand a year, would create a much more effectual demand for the necessaries, conveniences, and luxuries of life, than a single proprietor possessing a hundred thousand a year.

  Thomas Malthus

  Years, Luxury, Demand

  Thomas Robert Malthus (1836). “Principles of political economy considered with a view to their practical application”, p.374

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• Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcity, and from the quantity of labour required to obtain them.

  David Ricardo

  Two, Scarcity, Commodity

  David Ricardo (1821). “On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation”, p.2

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• It's rare that the sequel to a good movie lives up to expectations. Such is the case with Die Hard 2, the somewhat-muddled but still entertaining return of Bruce Willis' John McClane. Fortunately, the original Die Hard was good enough that there's room for the second installment to be enjoyable while still not matching the pace or possessing the flair of its predecessor.

  James Berardinelli

  Expectations, Good Movie, Return

  "Die Hard 2: Die Harder (1990)". A movie review at www.reelviews.net,

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• The practice of first developing a clear and precise definition of a process without regard for efficiency, and then using it as a guide and a test in exploring equivalent processes possessing other characteristics, such as greater efficiency, is very common in mathematics. It is a very fruitful practice which should not be blighted by premature emphasis on efficiency in computer execution.

  Kenneth E. Iverson

  Practice, Definitions, Tests

  "Notation as a Tool of Thought". Cvommunications of the ACM, 23 (8), (pp. 444 - 465), August 1980.

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• Let us then repeat and firmly fix this main point: the evil, the root evil, of that to which the term Capitalism has come to be applied, is neither its functioning for profit nor its dependence upon legally protected private property; but the presence of a Proletariat, that is of men possessing political freedom, but dispossessed of economic freedom, and existing in such large numbers in any community as to determine the tone of all that community.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Men, Roots

  Hilaire Belloc (2016). “The Crisis Of Civilization”, p.108, TAN Books

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• It will be impossible to put these principles into practice unless the non-owning workers through industry and thrift advance to the state of possessing some little property.

  Pope Pius XI

  Wisdom, Practice, Politics

  Catholic Church. Pope (1922-1939 : Pius XI), Pope Pius XI (1947). “On reconstructing the social order: (Quadragesimo anno)”

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• Nations are less disposed to make revolutions in proportion as personal property is augmented and distributed among them, and as the number of those possessing it is increased.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Wisdom, Numbers, Politics

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1840). “Democracy in America”, p.190

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• While alcohol ... continues to wreak havoc in America, supported by a $6 billion-a-year alcohol industry advertising campaign extolling the joy of inebriation, the far less harmful drug of marijuana remains illegal and continues to ruin people's lives - only if they are caught possessing and convicted of that crime.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Marijuana, Years, America

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• He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his love of possessing wealth.

  Horace

  His Love, Wealth, Grows

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• Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves; we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Motivation, Taste

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• What is the special privilege of youth? It is, I think, the power of looking forward, the firm belief that the future holds something that is worth possessing, and that, therefore, one can let the present moment drop from one without regret and without fear.

  Edith Sitwell

  Regret, Thinking, Special

  Edith Sitwell (Dame), Elizabeth Salter, Allanah Harper (1976). “Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology”, Michael Joseph

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• [On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately.

  Anais Nin

  Cities, Paris, Giving

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• Buying, possessing, accumulating--this is not worldliness. But doing this in the love of it, with no love of God paramount--doing it so that thoughts of eternity and God are an intrusion--doing it so that one's spirit is secularized in the process; this is worldliness.

  Robert Herrick

  Buying, Spirit, God Love

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• The Present, the Present is all thou hast
  For thy sure possessing;
  Like the patriarch's angel hold it fast
  Till it gives its blessing.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Angel, Blessing, Giving

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.94

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• After the pleasure of possessing books there is hardly anything more pleasant than that of speaking of them, and of communicating to the public the innocent richness of thought which we have acquired by the culture of letters.

  Charles Nodier

  Book, Culture, Letters

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• Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas it was its continuance which should have taught us its value. There are three requisitions to the proper enjoyment of earthly blessings,--a thankful reflection on the goodness of the Giver, a deep sense of our unworthiness, a recollection of the uncertainty of long possessing them. The first would make us grateful; the second, humble; and the third, moderate.

  Hannah More

  Grateful, Humble, Blessing

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• You may know the pain of possessing and dependency, reducing persons to objects, but this is not love. Love doesn't attempt to bind, ensnare, capture. It is light, free of the burden of attachments. Love asks nothing, is fulfilled in itself. When love is there, nothing remains to be done.

  Vimala Thakar

  Pain, Love Is, Light

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• [On journalists:] They are the scavengers of society who, possessing no guts of their own, tear out the guts of celebrities. They have the sycophantic, false enthusing gush of maiden aunts: who are accustomed to being trampled on doormats.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Aunt, Tears, Journalism

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• money-making is like a god possessing a priest. He never will leave you, until he has occupied you, wholly changed the order of your being, and seared you through and up and down. Then only would he eventually leave you, but nothing of you except an exhausted wreck, lying prone and wondering who are you.

  Ama Ata Aidoo

  Lying, Order, Wrecks

  Ama Ata Aidoo (1987). “The Dilemma of a Ghost ; Anowa: Two Plays”, Prentice Hall

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• Individuals possessing moderate-sized brains easily find their proper sphere, and enjoy in it scope for all their energy. In ordinary circumstances they distinguish themselves, but they sink when difficulties accumulate around them. Persons with large brains, on the other hand, do not readily attain their appropriate place; common occurrences do not rouse or call them forth.

  George Combe

  Hands, Brain, Energy

  George Combe (1830). “A System of Phrenology”, p.106

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• Here is a writer possessing the greatest talent: that of fully inhabiting the lives of others. Spargo conjures up these two as no one has done before. Scott and Zelda become, in Spargo's remarkable novel, not people of history but of literature, and reminders of what we fight for, what we fail to win, and the beauty that abides between. A marvel of a book.

  Andrew Sean Greer

  Book, Fighting, Winning

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• I have learned that to do one's next duty is to take a step toward all that is worth possessing.

  J. G. Holland

  Next, Steps, Duty

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• Letters were first invented for consoling such solitary wretches as myself. Having lost the substantial pleasures of seeing and possessing you, I shall in some measure compensate this loss by the satisfaction I shall find in your writing.

  Heloise

  Writing, Loss, Satisfaction

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