A Quote by John Dryden

They that possess the prince possess the laws.

John Dryden

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Laws Possess

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John Dryden
English - Poet
August 19, 1631 - May 12, 1700

It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that our power actually to possess is limited.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, understood as recalcitrant, inaccessible; of making it stand still. One can't possess reality, one can possess (and be possessed by) images — as, according to Proust, most ambitious of voluntary prisoners, one can't possess the present but one can possessthe past.

Susan Sontag

So long as I do not firmly and irrevocably possess the right to vote I do not possess myself. I cannot make up my mind - it is made up for me. I cannot live as a democratic citizen, observing the laws I have helped to enact - I can only submit to the edict of others.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I don't possess these thoughts I have --- they possess me. I don't possess these feelings I have --- They obsess me.

Ashly Lorenzana

Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

If we fear loss enough, in the end the things we possess will come to possess us.

Rachel Naomi Remen

If you possess happiness you possess everything: to be happy is to be in tune with God.

Paramahansa Yogananda

If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it... it possesses you.

Frank Sinatra

In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession.

T. S. Eliot

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Napoleon Hill

Our destiny is determined, not by what we possess, but by what possess us.

John C. Maxwell

What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.

Cesare Pavese

The best fortress which a prince can possess is the affection of his people.

Niccolo Machiavelli

For God's sake, let's take the word 'possess' and put a brick round its neck and drown it ... We can't possess one another. We can only give and hazard all we have.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction; that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it.