Quotes About Possession

You do not want to be playing good teams and always let them have 70 per cent of the ball, and expect it to work every time. That does not happen often.

Having the ball means creating chances and scoring goals.

The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.

People can be incredibly proprietary about Superman. They think that the character belongs to them.

I have a statue of Superman. It's actually a big one... It's a collectible statue of Superman, which the DC guys very kindly gave to me. So that's a little prized possession of mine.

I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2001 before I had cleaned up.

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

The issue is not possession of riches, according to Saint Augustine, but the desire for them.

A hunt leader could not show fear, or let it linger in his stomach, for others would sense it soon enough, taste that fear and become possessed by it. They would hesitate when an order was given, and uncertainty would claim their life as readily as the blade of the enemy.

Hay cosas que solo poseemos si están perdidas, hay cosas que no se pierden si de ellas nos separa la distancia.

There's entitlement or authoritarianism in all violence. We say a murderer 'took' another's life. 'To take' is to take possession of. It's to steal, to assume the privilege of an owner, to dispose of someone else's life itself as though it were yours to do so. It never is.

So, where does all that stuff come from? It comes from three main sources: stuff is bought and kept out of fear; stuff is collected and kept out of love. And stuff is kept and multiplied out of habit (Happy Starts at Home: Getting the Life You Want by Changing the Space You've Got, Rebecca West)

She'd also noted that the volume was stamped Property of the Longboat Hotel, Scarborough and the bookmark was a folded copy of a bill for a week's stay directed to the account of Mr. and Mrs. A.H. Dalziel.

We don't bring anything into the world and we sure as shit don't take anything out.

I don't know these people and they aren't my flowers.

Jealousy is always a mask for fear: fear that we aren't able to get what we want; frustration that somebody else seems to be getting what is rightfully ours even if we are too frightened to reach for it. At its root, jealousy is a stingy emotion.

For a woman, love has historically been a matter of possession followed by sacrifice: that's to say, of being possessed and then of being sacrificed.

For though Duncan was a mere mortal, flawed as well, he'd accomplished a daring feat. Aye, he'd captured an angel. And she belonged to him.

I will find her. And when you do? Roger asked. I will make her mine, the warrior answered in a hard, determined voice. She will be mine. The vow was made.

the Scots take what they want when they want it. She also said they have special preferences." "And what might those be?" Beak asked. "Strong horses, fat sheep, and soft women," Mary said. "Horses, sheep, and women?

Like it or not, she was going to belong to him.

No other man is ever going touch you, Alessandra. You're mine.

But we never say, the pool. Because the pool is ours and ours alone. It's my own secret Valhalla.

You keep it," he said.