Top 825 Prized Possessions Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?

Possessions, for the terminally frightened, bring peace of mind.

Time and love are the most valuable possessions you can share.

All the possessions in the world cannot fill an empty heart with love.

O! what a prodigal have I been of that most valuable of all possessions Time!

Hope is the most universal of human possessions.

Possessions of this world have not been for the exclusive use by such or such category of individuals.

I still have a home in Sarajevo, and there is a room where the walls are covered with football jerseys. One is a Milan shirt with Shevchenko's name and number on the back. It is an original from one of his Serie A appearances, and he has autographed it. It has pride of place. It really is my prized possession.

It's time we permanently repeal the tax on possessions that people leave to their children.

Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value; but most prized when polished.

The highest fulfillment of religion requires a giving up of all possessions.

Why there you are, Stephen,' cried Jack. 'You are come home, I find.' That is true,' said Stephen with an affectionate look: he prized statements of this kind in Jack.

originality" is everyone's aim, and novel techniques are as much prized as new scientific discoveries. [T.S.] Eliot states it with surprising naïveté: "It is exactly as wasteful for a poet to do what has been done already as for a biologist to rediscover Mendel's discoveries.

The virtues prized in free countries are honesty, self-discipline, a sense of responsibility to one's family, a sense of loyalty to one's employer and staff, and a pride in the quality of one's work. And these virtues only flourish in a climate of freedom.

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.

But you can't be possessed by your possessions. Those are just things.

True perfection in all things is no longer known or prized - you must write music that is either so simple a coachman could sing it, or so unintelligble that audiences like it simply because no sane person could understand it.

Throughout the ages advanced souls have yearned for a society in which liberty and justice prevail. Men have sought for it, fought for it, have died for it. Ancient freemen prized it; slaves longed for it; the Magna Charta demanded it; the Constitution of the United States declared it.

We all mouth the fact that material possessions don't make you happy but we still pursue them.

It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.

I don't think people today need to derive security from possessions.

It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.

Identification with the body, with the mind, with our possessions, with our families, with our friends - any kind of identification takes you outwards. All your possessions will be outwards: your wife, your husband, your children, your body - your body is outside you; your mind - your mind is outside you. The only thing that is not outside you is the witnessing. Just the watchfulness - that is your buddha. Identification means losing witnessing, falling into the trap of attachment. That is our misery, that is our slavery.

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

When I was a boy, I took over the shed at the bottom of the garden and displayed fossils and potsherds and coins in it and proudly called it my 'museum'. I charged people to come in, and my most prized possession was a Saracen shield dating from the Crusades.

Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is immortal.

One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.

Love is more important than material possessions.

One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self-possession.

I try not to be sentimental and obsessive about possessions. I love collecting, but I hate owning.

My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants.

What may begin as a temporary method to circumvent reasoned discussion and debate for the sake of a prized political goal may very well end up permanently undermining the trust required for its existence.

My most prized possession is my pillow. I can't travel or sleep without it. And it's, like, this really thin down pillow that really doesn't do anything, but it's weird: if I don't have it, I'm constantly thinking about not having it.

The use of our possessions shows us up for what we actually are.

I have a statue of Superman. It's actually a big one... It's a collectible statue of Superman, which the DC guys very kindly gave to me. So that's a little prized possession of mine.

We should travel light and live simply. Our enemy is not possessions but excess.

Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.

When I travel, I have almost all of my possessions with me. That's how little I own.

You are not defined by your possessions, looks, or popularity. You are made in God's image.

In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite.

Although a crisp texture is the single most prized quality in an apple - even more desirable than taste, according to one study - crispness is more a matter of acoustics than of mouth feel.

Our possessions don't own us any more, because we don't possess them.

These possessions of a simpleton being the three I choose and cherish: to care, to be fair, to be humble.

Liberty is one of the imagination's most precious possessions.

The disciple is rich not in possessions, but in personal identity.

Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.

Italy offers one the most priceless of all one's possessions - one's own soul.

Being up on something is a way of dismissing it. To espouse any point of view is a danger - it might leave us stuck with last year's cause. Prized for their novelty alone, ideas, gimmicks, trends become equivalent, interchangeable.

All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience.

The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.

We have no money. We have no possessions. Maybe that is why we value the things we do have ... loyalty and friendship.

In aesthetic consciousness we enter that painless state, prized by Epicurus as the state of the gods; for a moment we are delivered from the miserable pressure of the will. We celebrate the Sabbath from the penal servitude of willing; the wheel of Ixion stands still.

By all means continue destroying my possessions. I daresay I have too many.

God doesn't want all of us to relinquish all of our material possessions.

I still feel pangs of remorse over an insidious habit I've had since I was a teenager. About three times a week, I attend estate auctions and make insulting, low-ball bids for prized heirlooms until I'm asked to leave.

Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.

The black and merciless things that are behind the great possessions.

What I prized most was freedom, freedom to do my work, to give myself spontaneously and not out of duty or by command. I could not submit to such demands; rather would I choose the path of a homeless wanderer; yes, even go without love.

Our children are the only possessions we can take to heaven.

The United States have no possessions in the east and do not desire to have any, as other countries do.