Quotes About Possession

The archetypal No. 10 is a skillful player who is more interested in being in possession than tracking to get the ball back.

If you have to ask for something more than once or twice, it wasn't yours in the first place. And that's hard to accept when you love someone.

Love and exclusive possession can never go together.

I can chase you, and I can catch you, but there is nothing I can do to make you mine.

I love to personalize things. I love to make things my own. I like to name everything - from cars to iPhones to the socks I just lost.

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

I fall in love with something and wear it every day until it's destroyed. My most treasured items have a very short shelf life because I love them too much.

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.

Mine. The language of love is like that, possessive. That should be the first warning that it's not going to encourage anyone's betterment.

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.

Never has grief been possessed, never has love been learned, and what removes us in death is not revealed.

It is only by loving a thing that you can make it yours.

He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his love of possessing wealth.

If I make a new bag I love, I don't keep it.

He and I…we share a bond. Not love, exactly. It goes beyond that. He is mine as surely as sun follows moon across the sky. Mine before ever I knew he existed. Mine until death and beyond.

Love is a kind of possession. It's a poison.

He had wanted. He had needed. He had desired. And he had taken. But he had never loved.

Ramona grabbed the book. "It's mine. I told you it was mine!" Then she turned to Beezus and said triumphantly, "You said people didn't buy books at the library and now you just bought one!

Beezus and Ramona defended their possessions from Willa Jean. This is what - called playing with Willa Jean.

Once it's obtained, it's obtained.

Certain authors, speaking of their works, say: My book, My commentary, My history, etc. They resemble middle-class people who have a house of their own and always have My house on their tongue.

You would not seek me if you did not possess me.

This dog is mine, said those poor children; that is my place in the sun. Here is the beginning and the image of the usurpation of all the earth.

I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.