Possession Quotes
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Possession Quotes & Sayings
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I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession.
— Samuel Johnson
I knew, as every peasant does, that land can never be truly owned. We are the keepers of the soil, the curators of trees.
— Lisa St. Aubin De Teran
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Love is not possession. Love is letting your loved ones follow their own paths, even if those paths lead them away from you.
— Cloris Kylie
Self-possession is the ability to face without fear life in all its contradictions.
— Vivian Gornick
Wars are the hobbies of half-informed children who have somehow come into possession of the levers of power.
— Fred Reed
There was nothing fake or added about him. He was all himself.
— Colin Cotterill
Hope is the best possession.
— William Hazlitt
I guess my most prized pop culture possession is a signed first edition of the book 'Fight Club' by Chuck Palahniuk.
— Jen Lancaster
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
— John D. Rockefeller
Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals.
— Leo Tolstoy
Your ideas about possession must increase until you get to a state of full possession of the land, city and nation
— Sunday Adelaja
Possession of anything new or expensive only reflected a person's lack of theology and geometry; it could even cast doubts upon one's soul.
— John Kennedy Toole
Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.
— John Ruskin
Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch.
— John Le Carre
We never know the blessings bestowed on us until we are separated from the possession of them.
— Jane Porter
Most people take health at face value. Quite often people understand that health is the most valuable possession only after they become seriously ill.
— Eraldo Banovac
Take to the study of the law. Possession is nine points of it, which thou hast of me. Self-possession is the tenth ...
— R.D. Blackmore
The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a comtempt for mere external show
— James A. Garfield
Creativity is not the possession of some special talent. It's about the willingness to play. — John Cleese
In the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession.
— John Bright
My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.
— William Lyon Phelps
Power is not a material possession that can be given, it is the ability to act. Power must be taken, it is never given.
— William Powell
It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
The wavering mind is but a base possession.
— Euripides
Know yourself. Feel yourself. Love yourself. Respect yourself. Take good care of yourself. You are your most precious possession on Earth.
— Robert Muller
Freshman year. We made it. And with only one body possession and one accidental death to our names
— Simon Holt
True love can exist only in freedom from possession.
— Shekhar Kapur
I have a palate, Williams. A precious possession. And I have no intention of prostituting it to pickles.
— Josephine Tey
The love of money as a possession ... will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
— John Maynard Keynes
Nothing's really a prized possession except my family, you know?
— James Hetfield
Possession naturally abates the Vigour of Desire ...
— Eliza Haywood
The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
— Jackie Robinson
You want to be free. You also want to be mine. You can't be both.
— Nenia Campbell
I feel as if they are somewhere between movement and stillness, and thus in possession of a certain energy.
— Claire Morgan
For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.
— Emma Donoghue
The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession.
— Thorstein Veblen
First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
— Sitting Bull
Naked we came upon earth, and naked we go forth, and of all our possessions, we can carry nothing with us.
— J.C. Ryle
No man ever reaches manhood till a woman's tenderness Is a part of his possession.
— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another.
— Geoffrey Beene
Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.
— Blaise Pascal
I am glad to have found and have knowledge of a love that could transcend time even if it was Forbidden.
— E.L.R. Jones Formerly, Now Ellie Keys
In every art the desire to practice it precedes both the full ability to do so and the possession of something worthwhile to express by its means.
— Phyllis Bentley
The only thing I would like is to have more control of the game in terms of possession.
— Jose Mourinho
It is said in the desert that possession of water in great amount can inflict a man with fatal carelessness.
— Frank Herbert
But the moment a bird was dead, no matter how beautiful it had been in life, the pleasure of possession became blunted for me.
— John James Audubon
The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction.
— Thorstein Veblen
Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.
— Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
Possession of wealth is not the happiness but expression of gratitude for the possession is the happiness.
— Debasish Mridha
No one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation.
— Georgette Heyer
There are two things that bestow consequence; great possession, or great debts.
— Charles Caleb Colton
The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Death is another inevitable consequence of possessing something without its understanding
— Sunday Adelaja
We must remember that possession of physical beauty can easily weaken the moral faculty.
— Frank Tallis
My house was a world of my own possession, a country in which I was ruler and citizen, where I chose and where I served.
— Anita Diamant
Possession and loving are concepts that damn each other.
— Wilma Stockenstrom
your shoes are carrying your most valuable possession - your life. Do not delay. Everything else can be replaced,
— Ruta Sepetys
Beauty and desire to possess have driven men mad for centuries.
— Hannah Rothschild
My goal has always been to help people help themselves. Your body is your most priceless possession; you've go to take care of it!
— Jack LaLanne
Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
— Honore De Balzac
Society is best served when the means of production are in the possession of those who know how to use them best.
— Ludwig Von Mises
O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment. — Henry David Thoreau
The kids competed for a full 32 minutes. We want the kids to compete on every possession.
— Eric Davis
We were chosen by God's to be His special possession.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The man who is really forgiven, is anxious not to offend again; the possession of justification leads to an anxious desire for sanctification.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Let the fruition of things bless the possession of them, and take no satisfaction in dying but living rich.
— Thomas Browne
Great wealth took possession of the government. It was reflected in Mr. Harding's selection of a cabinet.
— George William Norris
Carina's his trophy but I'm his prized possession." ~Marco
— Senayda Pierre
There's no joy in possession if all you do is throw money at it.
— Miranda Neville
I must first have the sense of God's possession of me before I can have the sense of His presence with me.
— Watchman Nee
There are perhaps only one or two things in the world which are not far more charming in desire than they are in possession.
— Anna Brackett
What is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.
— Walter Scott
