Quotes About Possession

A lot of media that that I want to consume, I don't want to have to own forever and ever. It's not like real estate.

The best things in life are free, but you can keep them for the birds and bees; I want money.

Irony, perfect definition: that for which I want to possess it, I would no longer want once I possessed it.

I hate playing the bass, bro. I've been playing the bass because it's there and I don't want anyone else to play it.

History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.

It's called Paris, not Hilton, just me, because I don't want people to think it's my family's. It's mine.

I'm going to hold onto my Blu-ray collection because I really think it's hardware and it's important. I don't want to live in a cloud, all my life.

All wars are fought for the acquisition of wealth

The possession of unnecessary implements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues and tends to foment uprisings.

Memory, like love, is an act of imagination, an abandonment and a possession.

Sweet spoils won on a silken battlefield. Every inch belonged to him, and he would take it as he wished.

You don't have to pay its rent just because it is a book.

Poetry is the great stimulation of life. Poetry leads past possession of self to transfiguration beyond gender. Poetry is redemption from pessimism.

If you developed diphtheria, spotted fever, or the plague while you were in possession of a library book, you were required to inform the library, and the book had to be fumigated before it was put back in circulation, but the library covered the cost. Three

you read a book for the experience of reading it. You didn't read it in order to have an object that had to be housed and looked after forever, a memento of the purpose for which it was obtained.

when a man falls in love with orchids, he'll do anything to possess the one he wants. It's like chasing a green-eyed woman or taking cocaine.… it's a sort of madness.…

Even books I don't want, or books that are so worn out and busted that they can't be read any longer, cling to me like thistles.

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.

Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality...One can't possess reality, one can possess images--one can't possess the present but one can possess the past.

Her lips taste like mint from toothpaste or gum, or sometimes like cherries or grapes from her lip gloss. She's soft when I hold her, with curves where my hands rest, and when I touch her I think stupid caveman things like, mine and totally mine —oh yeah, and all mine .

In [Two Treatises of Government], John Locke explained that he had discovered universal laws that could predict how people should act. Every man and woman, Locke wrote, was equal. Every human being had, by "natural law," the right to seek "life, health, liberty, and possession.

I realized with even more surprise that while it already seemed that I was interested in doing whatever it was this man wanted, I did not want to pick up another girl. I would be too jealous. I didn't want to share him.

Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable.

The hatred I feel for him, for the phantom girl, for everything, is so real and immediate it chokes me. Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable. Why did it take him being whipped within an inch of his life to see it?