Quotes About Possession

She wondered if perhaps it was something to do with marking their territory. Like dripping on the floor.

So long as one man wants another man's wife, or another man's land, or another man's cattle, or another man's silver, so long will there be war. And so long as one priest preaches that his god is the only god or the better god there will be war.

Più sgobbava - la sua fatica era un'immagine del tempo che divora se stesso - meno sembrava possedere.

El impulso hacia las empresas personales debe dirigirse hacia cosas tales como la creación artística, los descubrimientos científicos o la creación de instituciones útiles; en una palabra, en actividades que son creativas más bien que posesivas.

Often a spirit seizes him … and it throws him into convulsions… . I begged Your disciples to drive it out, but they couldn't. Luke 9:39–40

Save Your people, bless Your possession, shepherd them, and carry them forever. Psalm 28:9

Enter and possess the good land the Lord your God swore to give your fathers. Deuteronomy 6:18

God gave the Israelites the Promised Land but told them they'd have to take what was theirs in fierce battle.

God gave the Israelites the Promised Land but told them they'd have to take what was theirs in fierce battle. Why? Probably one reason was so they'd develop the strength to keep it once they conquered it.

Then the Lord became jealous for His land and spared His people. Joel 2:18

I love to watch 'Hoarders.' My grandmother was a hoarder. My mother's on her way. I'm an electronics hoarder - I won't throw any out. I still have my first T-Mobile Sidekick... old VCRs in my garage. It scares me that I'm going to end up being buried under electronics.

I've got funny things. David Duchovny had to have a cast made of his face to do an old person's make-up, and I've got that cast of his face in my house. I've got something from the pilot, the original implant that was in Billy Miles' head. I've got a sign from 'The Erlenmeyer Flask.' But my house isn't a museum to 'The X-Files!'

I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.

I think I have already signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman, and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it?

Everything I own has some significance to me.

I organize my closet by season, color, and silhouette, but I don't edit often enough, which causes me to hoard Hermes cuffs in Hermes bags that are crammed into my living room because my closet is overflowing.

On our hero's journey, we see, we experience, we suffer. We learn. On our hero's journey, we acquire a history that is ours alone. It's a secret history, a private history, a personal history. No one has it but us. No one knows it but us. This secret history is the most valuable possession we hold, or ever will hold. We will draw upon it for the rest of our lives.

Perhaps when we're forced to forfeit what we own, we lose any sentimental associations. Perhaps pawning our valuables frees us in the same way a house fire destroys not only our worldly goods, but our attachment to what's gone.

thinks he either kept it in his desk drawer at work or in the glove compartment of his car." Odessa

Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.

Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.

Every collector is potentially (if not actually) a thief.

La foto del amante escondida en la billetera de una mujer casada, el cartel fotográfico de una estrella de rock fijado sobre la cama de una adolescente, el retrato de propaganda del político prendido a la solapa del votante, las instantáneas de los hijos del taxista en la visera: todos los usos talismánicos de las fotografías expresan una actitud sentimental e implícitamente mágica; son tentativas de alcanzar o apropiarse de otra realidad.

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.