Pastoral Resources

I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eyes and focused my thoughts. Presently, this book is my prized possession.

Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.

This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.

I would also point out that many governments that chose not to support this war - certainly, the French president, Jacques Chirac, as I recall in April of last year, referred to Iraq's possession of WMD.

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.

Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.

But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.

I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother.

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than any single possession.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.

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.

Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance.