After it is all over the religion of man is his most important possession.
Gentleness self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
Writing is my obsession my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.
This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves as a possession.
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.
Where an excess of power prevails property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions his person his faculties or his possessions.
From reading over the notes for each session it was apparent that there had been improvement by more or less regular steps from almost complete terror at sight of the rabbit to a completely positive response with no signs of disturbance.
It was great fun. We had gone on tour in between the sessions and reconnected with the audience and got a lot of energy back from them a lot of positive energy.
Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.
My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass for new things to happen to us we want to hold on to certain moments we don't want our lives to end.
Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.
To attain inner peace you must actually give your life not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then and only then can you begin to find inner peace.
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
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.
What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive.
Since I was a kid I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties Chicago blues of the Fifties West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.
Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
Sometimes I miss out the morning's painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open.
I trust that your readers will not construe my words to mean that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill.
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.
Training is full-on. Some days I really don't want to get out of bed and hit that track again. Sunday and Monday morning sessions are always horrible. But who really looks forward to going to work on a Monday morning?
I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist every morning at the time of his visit made me want to hang myself realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.