Quotes About Possession

Men want to destroy the women: you've become bigger than me, people love you more, you have a public platform, that's my space you're taking up. I can't just divorce you, I have to destroy you.

A woman is always buying something.

A good many men and women want to get possession of secrets just as spendthrifts want to get money-for circulation.

Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.

Don't trust women, my mother said to me. Even the ugly ones will take what you thought was yours.

A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.

Yeah, I can see why beautiful cars are compared to beautiful women... they usually belong to someone else.

I do not believe in people owning guns. Guns should be owned only by the police and military. I am going to do everything I can to disarm this state.

We have to stay focused on every possession.

A lot of people assume I have a great hat collection, but kids steal my hats at every show. I've had all these hats that I've loved, but now they're in some little kids' possession. It's difficult to replenish. I don't think the kids realize this.

What I like about land is I can drive out and check on it. It doesn't go anywhere. It's hard to steal land.

I used to steal from the library, which is a crime and it's bad, but I just couldn't get enough books, and I also didn't like to give them back once I'd read them. I just read everything.

We have a problem now with parents stealing their kids' CDs, so the roles have been reversed.

We possess ideas, but we are possessed by feelings. They lie too deep for understanding, astir with their own secret life and carrying us with them.

To him it felt as if his house had seased to be his home and instead had become a place that merely contained some of his belongings.

It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.

It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet.

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

The sinister, the terrible never deceive: the state in which they leave us is always one of enlightenment. And only this condition of vicious insight allows us a full grasp of the world, all things considered, just as a frigid melancholy grants us full possession of ourselves. We may hide from horror only in the heart of horror. ("The Medusa")

This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected--in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.

the sort of books that cost too much unless you got them free.

I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.

When men have hearts of stone and foreheads of brass—it is a sign that the devil has taken full possession of them.

Demons manifest themselves in people in different ways. For instance, out of nowhere, somebody can become very angry for no reason. That's not just an emotion. That's a demon.