Quotes About Possession

All lovers desire solitude in order to possess each other more completely. They create for each other a new universe inhabited by the two of them alone. ("The Dead Town")

You may have married her, but she is mine. Do you think I shall let you take her? She may be ten times your wife, but, by God, you shall never have her.

Arise, 0 Yahweh; Judge the earth! May you take possession of all the nations!

You may have the universe if I may have Italy.

The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

That which is built upon the land goes with the land.

Possession is eleven points in the law.

Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir.

You got a harem of seventy girls, you don't get to know any of them very well.

It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.

Ownership is to fear (tener es temer)

Whatever is not nailed down is mine. Whatever I can pry loose is not nailed down.

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable.

Of a rich man who was mean and niggardly, he said, "That man does hot possess his estate, but his estate possesses him."

Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.

There can be to the ownership of anything no rightful title which is not derived from the title of the producer and does not rest upon the natural right of the man to himself.

The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.

Property is theft.

Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact, but a legal fiction.

The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.

He wouldn't give a duck a drink if he owned Lake Michigan.

The past is that which we possess fully and in whole.

I glory more in the coming purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.

He wanted to see her eat. After the sex, after he came inside her, he wanted to have her eat food he'd bought her, and he wanted her to take the stuff from his hand. Hell, he wanted to go out and kill something for her, bring the meat back, cook it himself, and feed her until she was full. Then he wanted to lie beside her with a dagger in his hand, protecting her as she slept.