Famous quotes containing the word possesses:
“A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.”
—C.E. (Charles Edward)
“A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“The Great South Beach of Long Island,... though wild and desolate, as it wants the bold bank,... possesses but half the grandeur of Cape Cod in my eyes, nor is the imagination contented with its southern aspect.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)