Quotes About Possession

We need the ball even to defend; that's our objective: having the ball and having it as far as possible from our goal as possible.

I'm constantly falling in love with objects, and they follow me around the world.

Thanksgiving is the power that transforms desire and satisfaction, love and possession, into life, that fulfills everything in the world, given to us by God, into knowledge of God and communion with him.2

What the critic as a teacher of language tries to teach is not an elegant accomplishment, but the means of conscious life. Literary education should lead not merely to the admiration of great literature, but to some possession of its power of utterance. The ultimate aim is an ethical and participating aim, not an aesthetic or contemplative one, even though the latter may be the means of achieving the former.

Passt sie zu dem, was ich bereits habe? Handele ich nur aus einer Laune heraus? Hat es für mich einen wirklichen Nutzen, oder macht mir einfach nur der Besitz an sich Freude?

It is not the possession of money that constitutes wealth, that gives the highest satisfaction, and awakens the consciousness of noble achievement, the assurance that one is fulfilling his mission, and that he is reading aright the sealed message which the Creator placed in his hand at birth.

Mine mine mine. That was the curse and power of human beings—that what they saw and loved they had to have. They could share it with other people but only if they conceived of those people as being somehow their own. What we own is ours. What you own should also be ours. In fact, you own nothing, if we want it. Because you are nothing. We are the real people, you are only posing as people in order to try to deprive us of what God means us to have.

Human beings *do* metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered.

Now that she knew credit cards were valuable, Baba Yaga began to collect as many of them as she could.

The message was clear: touch me not, thou mortal, but yes, I will bestow this smile on you. You are mine, but I am not yet yours.

Lanik : - Je suis en train de perdre Saranna. L'Homee-qui-sais-tout : - C'est très bien. Peresonne ne doit posséder quelqu'un d'autre. >>

The message was mixed, yet clear: Touch me not, thou mortal, but yes, I will bestow this smile on you. You are mine, but I am not yet yours.

That's why I don't want him to take our babies away from me. I must have them all, the way conquerors have had to have this city. I must have them. That is my empire.

You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream. I worshipped you. I grew jealous of every one to whom you spoke. I wanted to have you all to myself.

Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning.

Nineteen is old enough to know that if you have got somethin that means the world to you it's all that more likely it'll get took away. Sixteen was, for that matter.

Anytime someone puts a lock on something that belongs to you and doesn't give you a key, that lock is not there for your benefit.

The New-Englanders are a People of God settled in those, which were once the Devil's Territories; and it may easily be supposed that the Devil was exceedingly disturbed, when he perceived such a People here accomplishing the Promise of old made unto our Blessed Jesus, That He should have the Utmost parts of the Earth for his Possession.

It was great, wasn't it—because it was ours.

Instead of trying to create the most enjoyable experience, they unthinkingly worked as much as possible, stockpiling useless treasure." The researchers called this phenomenon "mindless accumulation

He felt again irresistibly drawn to her. He felt there was a secret bond, a secret thread between him and her, something very exclusive, which shut out everybody else and made him and her possess each other in secret.

Can you never like things without clutching them as if you wanted to pull the heart out of them?

But,' Gerald insisted, 'you don't allow one man to take away his neighbour's living, so why should you allow one nation to take away the living from another nation?' There was a long slow murmur from Hermione before she broke into speech, saying with a laconic indifference: 'It is not always a question of possessions, is it?

Denmark first responded to the denunciatory cries of the eighteenth century against slavery and the slave-trade. In 1792, by royal order, this traffic was prohibited in the Danish possessions after 1802.