The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction.
Adults don't know how to respect and really love their young ones. Often love is confused with possession. You say "this is my" about your child, without taking into account that you're dealing with a real person with hisher own personality, rights, and autonomy, even when very young.
We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well.
I find all this money a considerable burden.
Wherever there is possession of marks, there is fraud ; wherever there is no-possession of no-marks, there is no fraud. Hence the Tathagata is to be seen from no-marks as marks.
The prerequisite for an ideology is possession of a basic truth.
Love is not a possession but a growth. The heart is a lamp with just oil enough to burn for an hour, and if there be no oil to put in again its light will go out. God's grace is the oil that fills the lamp of love.
If one's reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.
What is needed is the development in men of that particular type of skill which will enable them to make social use of knowledge already in their possession; enable them to apply simple, sometimes self-evident, truths to the guidance of their common life.
When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf - 'cause I'd alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf.
Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.
Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.
Property monopolized or in the possession of a few is a curse to mankind.
Nobody can fight properly and boldly for the faith if he clings to a fear of being stripped of earthly possessions.
Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren't easy questions.
In your occupations, try to possess your soul in peace. It is not a good plan to be in haste to perform any action that it may be sooner over. On the contrary, you should accustom yourself to do whatever you have to do with tranquility, in order that you may retain the possession of yourself and of settled peace.
The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.
O! what a prodigal have I been of that most valuable of all possessions Time!
I think that every town should have a park, or rather a primitive forest, of five hundred or a thousand acres, either in one body or several, where a stick would never be cut for fuel, not for the navy, not to make wagons, but stand and decay for higher uses - a common possession for instruction and recreation.
You must not contrast too strongly the hours of courtship with the years of possession.