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Quotes About Possession

She's mine." "Fuck that." Ryland strode across the earth right toward Kane, ignoring Kane's growl of warning. "How in hell's name did a bastard like you find an angel?
~ Stephanie Rowe
Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.
~ Mark Twain
The only thing in the world we really possess is our knowledge of the truth.
~ Austin O'Malley
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.
~ Marcel Proust
The prerequisite for an ideology is possession of a basic truth.
~ Saul Alinsky
What is true belongs to me!
~ Seneca the Younger
PADDINGTON BUYS A SHARE
~ Michael Bond
Keep your paws off my fiancèe, you flea-ridden stray!
~ Michael Buckley
It was then that Max, who had never before in all this time considered the matter, realized that all men, no matter what their estate, were in possession of shining immortal souls.
~ Michael Chabon
What kind of heaven is that, you can't have your records?
~ Michael Chabon
Tú sabes que viven del tiempo de los hombres. Pero ese tiempo muere literalmente cuando se lo arrancan a su verdadero propietario. Porque cada hombre tiene su propio tiempo. Y sólo mientras siga siendo suyo se mantiene vivo.
~ Michael Ende
Und wer die Zeit der Menschen besitzt, der hat unbegrenzte Macht!
~ Michael Ende
Every form of strength is also a weakness. Pretty girls tend to become insufferable because, being pretty, their faults are too much tolerated. Possessions entrap men, and wealth paralyzes them.
~ Michael Lewis
There is a magic moment, during which a man has surrendered a treasure, and during which the man who is about to receive it has not yet done so. An alert lawyer [read bond trader] will make that moment his own, possessing the treasure for a magic microsecond, taking a little of it, passing it on.
~ Michael Lewis
Every form of strength is also a form of weakness," he once wrote. "Pretty girls tend to become insufferable because, being pretty, their faults are too much tolerated. Possessions entrap men, and wealth paralyzes them.
~ Michael Lewis
I am a man possessed," he groaned, "and without this devil-blade I carry I would not be a man at all.
~ Michael Moorcock
He was like some possessed demigod of the darkest legends of her people and her love of him turned to terror.
~ Michael Moorcock
The miserable frequently believe that possession of power for its own sake is what has made others more content. They grab such power in many different ways and remain baffled as to why they are just as miserable as they were to begin with.
~ Michael Moorcock
What do you hate most? he asks. -A lie. And you? -Ownership, he says. When you leave me, forget me.
~ Michael Ondaatje
I have every single Ferrari that came out. I have all the Mercedes they came out with, all the Jaguars they came out with, all the Porsches they came out with.
~ Ion Tiriac
Part of being a Manchester United player under Sir Alex Ferguson, perhaps the most important part of being one of United's attacking players was that when you were in possession, you had to take risks in order to create goal-scoring chances. It was not an option; it was an obligation.
~ Paul Scholes
We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
~ Samantha Harvey
In certain situations, you have to be able to be more conscious of ball security than you do in the open field.
~ Travis Kelce
If you've had something for more than six months, and it's still not repaired, it's clutter.
~ Gretchen Rubin