Possession Quotes

It takes some living to discover that the living itself is one's life, that life is not a goal to attain but a possession to relish.

The possession of wealth is not a mark of Heavenly favor and their absence is not evidence of Heavenly disfavor.

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

Where you just possessed?" Cookie asked after a long moment, awe softening her voice. "'Cause let me tell you, sweetheart, if that was possession, I'm selling my soul.

A priest in New York City was arrested on gun possession. These days, you better be happy that the bulge in his pocket is a .38.

Our possessions can be deadly. They can be subtly deadly.

When resources become skimpy, human beings don't suddenly cooperate to conserve what's left. They fight to the last scrap for possession of a diminishing resource.

From Maya Angelou I began to believe that I, too, someday, could be a writer, and I also learned how tortuous it can be to be in possession of a unique voice.

A road that perhaps more than any other leads to self atrophy is undedicated money.

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

If we are guided to give up our possessions, it will be a positive thing for us.

It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.

I think parents should know what their children are reading, and if they truly object, they should tell their kids why, rather than summarily removing a book from their possession.

The kids competed for a full 32 minutes. We want the kids to compete on every possession.

The greatest possession is Self-possession.

Love more deeply and without the sense of what you love being your personal possession.

Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.

Forgiveness is the finding again of a lost possession.

No man ever reaches manhood till a woman's tenderness Is a part of his possession.

I don't have many possessions, apart from my books.

Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.

A good many men and women want to get possession of secrets just as spendthrifts want to get money-for circulation.

Common people, whether lords or shop-keepers, are slow to understand that possession, whether in the shape of birth or lands or money or intellect, is a small affair in the difference between men.

I've been very careful. I've gone through pretty much everything. I'm very careful not to let go of the prized possessions, or too much of it that I'll regret in the future.

Your ideal possession candidate's a thirteen-year-old recently orphaned schizophrenic girl three days away from her period on her way to see the shrink with whom she's romantically besotted.

There is no such thing as a crime of passion, only a crime of possession.

Possession of a program with unique analytic capabilities puts a scientist in as much of a priveleged position to make new discoveries as the possession of a powerful telescope.

The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.

Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its manifestation in dress and equipage alone, obtain for the possessor almost universal respect.

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

The possession of a great many things, even the best of things, tends to blind one to the real value of anything.

Life is not to be bought with heaps of gold; Not all Apollo's Pythian treasures hold, Or Troy once held, in peace and pride of sway, Can bribe the poor possession of the day.

Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.

Kate Daniels, trained negotiator. When in possession of some valuable information, give it away to the first sexy man you see with no guarantee of return.

And it's Gryfindor in possession again, as Johnson takes the Quaffle - Flint alongside her - poke him in the eye, Angelina - it was a joke, professor, it was a joke.

Bliss in possession will not last; Remembered joys are never past.

I was initially cast as Corporal Hicks, and I was fired after a couple weeks of filming because I got busted for possession of drugs, and Michael Biehn replaced me.

we never know the blessings bestowed on us until we are separated from the possession of them.

[In my bio] is no drunk driving, there's no DUI's, there's no possession of cocaine, none of that stuff so you know, I don't know if that's good or bad. Everybody loves dirty laundry.

Evil is not a thing. It cannot take possession of you. It's the opposite; it's a void, an absence of goodness. The only thing you can be frightened of here is yourself.

The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign.

Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.

Communication is a process of sharing experience till it becomes a common possession. It modifies the disposition of both the parties who partake in it.

Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession.

What we enjoy, not what we possess, is ours, and in labouring for the possession of many things, we lose the power to enjoy the best.

The love of money as a possession...will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.

I used to lie down on the grass and draw the blades as they grew - until every square foot of meadow, or mossy bank, became a possession to me.

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.

our contempt of wealth does not extend beyond the hour when we can get it in possession.

I don't know much about football but everyone seems to say that it is all about possession.