Quotes About Possession

The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that.

Maybe money is unreal for most of us, easier to give away than things we want.

We are possessed by the things we possess. When I like an object, I always give it to someone. It isn't generosity-it's only because I want others to be enslaved by objects, not me.

Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.

I own more shotguns than I need. But less shotguns than I want.

Reactionary: One who wants the rules enforced so nobody can take his pile away from him the way he got it from others.

To be a success in advertising you must want to fill other people with a passion for possession.

We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious. They stole it from us. Sneaky little hobbitses. Wicked, tricksy, false!

Life cannot be possessed. You cannot have it in your fist. If you want to have it, you have to keep your hands open.

All that is great cannot be possessed - and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing. We want to possess.

You are mine, always, if ye will it or no, if ye want me or nay. Mine, and I willna let ye go

I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: "Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar."

Tt just seems to be human nature to seem to want to posit in another human being, qualities that you must know, in part of your mind, that human being couldn't possess because you don't possess.

You have a dark heart in you, Valentine's daughter," he said. "You just won't admit it. And if you want Jace, you had better accept it. Because he belongs to me now.

I don't see what else you can spend your money on... If you want to own things, art is a pretty good bet.

This man belongs to me, I want him!

That's how women are with me " said Paul. "They want me like mad but they don't want to belong to me.

If you want something, if you take it for your own, you'll always be taking it from someone else.

She doesn't want me to own her. (Dante) Well, the Simi doesn't understand that. Owning's not so bad. I own akri and he kind of fun. (Simi)

That's okay. You an be selfish with me all you want. I'm yours.

Everybody values their train, but they want to zero-out other people's trains.

With a DVD, you want something you can own, you can watch, you can come to grips with and you can explore. It's something larger than the film, when it's going out to a fan base.

Is possession a virtue? Is a lifetime of working for some rich toad a virtue? Is loyal employment in some merchant house a virtue? Loyal to what? To whom? Oh, have they paid for that loyalty with a hundred docks a week? Like any other commodity? But then, which version is truer – the virtue of self-serving acquisitiveness or the virtue of loyalty to one's employer? Are

People with no sense or appreciation of humor, Invigilator, always take money too seriously. Its possession, anyway. Which is why they spend all their time stacking coins, counting this and that, gazing lovingly over their hoards and so on. They're compensating for the abject penury everywhere else in their lives. Nice rings, by the way.