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Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
The value of a thing is the amount of laboring or work that its possession will save the possessor.
A dance is the devil's procession, and he that entereth into a dance, entereth into his possession.
Faith obliterates time, annihilates distance, and brings future things at once into its possession.
When you have two-thirds of possession in any match you have got to turn that pressure into points.
My most precious possession is a 13.5-feet-long fishing rod, made by an American firm called Loomis.
No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.
That's what my mindset is, making the right play and doing the right thing each and every possession.
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model.
Mourinho is a coach who likes more the ball practice, works the ball possession and makes short games.
There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.
The love of money as a possession...will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.
It was not so much that I was doing mathematics, but rather that mathematics had taken possession of me.
Nothing on this planet is permanent, and this is why I believe there can be no such thing as possession.
Great wealth took possession of the government. It was reflected in Mr. Harding's selection of a cabinet.
Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.
Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.
We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
I must first have the sense of God's possession of me before I can have the sense of His presence with me.
The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession.
Naked we came upon earth, and naked we go forth, and of all our possessions, we can carry nothing with us.
I have always been comfortable in possession, but it is tracking and tackling that I have been working on.
Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
The possession of a perfect knowledge of your business is an absolute necessity in order to insure success.
Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.
The Napoli fans want players who put their heart and soul into the match and who fight for every possession.
A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.
If you play every time, long balls, you lose possession and you lose momentum. I don't want to be like that.
At Tottenham, I'm asked to take a lot of risks to keep maximum possession of the ball and build from the back.
My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.
There is a tendency in all parties, when they have been for a long time in possession of power, to augment it.
Oriol Romeu is very strong and doesn't lose possession much. He's a very complete player and makes good cover.
Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things which cannot be shared.
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another.
Society is best served when the means of production are in the possession of those who know how to use them best.
We have learned by now that our beauty does not count as a possession. The only thing we truly own is our legend.
As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
Everything is good . . . as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death's horses they run in span.
I want it more. That's all it really is. Nobody wants to get hit every possession to get a rebound, and I want to.
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
I am 10 years in this league. The physical possession of a ring doesn't make me feel like more or less of a person.
Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.
We had put almost all of our possessions in storage, which was a metaphor for being twenty, as were so many things.