Possession Quotes
It's a truth universally acknowledged that an FBI special agent in possession of great skill and talent is likely to engage in trash talk every now and then.
Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things which cannot be shared.
The pearl whose possession separates man from beast, the pearl which is the rarest find - the best among virtues - is forgiveness.
I've been watching Messi for some time now, and his ability to decide games and keep possession of the ball is amazing.
My former people were not totally wrong. Love is a kind of possession. It’s a poison. And if Alex no longer loves me, I can’t bear to think that he might love somebody else.
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He knew she was there by the joy and terror that took possession of his heart [...] Everything was lit up by her. She was the smile that brightened everything around.
The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals.
Once he had taken hold, he did not let go. It was not a handshake, it was a possession.
As the most recently arrived to earthly life, children can seem in lingering possession of some heavenly lidless eye.
We had put almost all of our possessions in storage, which was a metaphor for being twenty, as were so many things.
But feeling is so different from knowing. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.
When one great passion seizes possession of the soul all other feelings are crowded out.
Wealth does not teach us to transcend the desire for wealth. The possession of many goods does not bring the repose of not desiring them.
Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness.
In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against Indian humanity.
There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer.
La possession de ce qu'on aime est une joie plus grande encore que l'amour. Possessing what one loves is an even greater joy than love itself.
It is a principle of our nature that feelings once excited turn readily from the object by which they are excited to some other object which may for the time being take possession of the mind.
God wants the world to see what God can do with his purchased possessions. So he prunes you.
She will remain sane and she will live as she was meant to live, richly and deeply, among others of her kind, in full possession and command of her gifts.
Environment grinds us, forces us to adjust, and--consciously or not--kills our most precious possession: that something which enables us to speak with ourselves and with God.
I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eyes and focused my thoughts. Presently, this book is my prized possession.
When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf - 'cause I'd alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf.
That sort of fundamentalism which treats possession of private property not as a desirable economic and personal asset but as a condition of liberty is a form of primitive religion.
Possession of territory is not primarily about laws and contracts, but first and foremost a matter of movement and circulation.
When we marry, we are authorized to take possession of the other person, body and soul.
The role of the educator is one of tranquil possession of certitude in regard to the teaching of not only contents but also of 'correct thinking.'
A field is the most just possession for men. For what nature requires it carefully bears: barley, oil, wine, figs, honey. Silver-plate and purple will do for the tragedians, not for life.
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.
Being a Christian is not just about following commandments: it is about letting Christ take possession of our lives and transform them.
Human beings do metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered.
Faith must be tested, because it can be turned into a personal possession only through conflict.
Talent is hereditary; it may be the common possession of a whole family (eg, the Bach family); genius is not transmitted; it is never diffused, but is strictly individual.
If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession of as much happiness as is good for any of the children of Adam.
Take to the study of the law. Possession is nine points of it, which thou hast of me. Self-possession is the tenth.
The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservation and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.
A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be saidto have arrived at self-possession.
Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust.
