Quotes About Possession

Obviously ,you want to demand the puck; you want to have it as much as you can because you feel like good things can happen when it's on your stick.

When I worked on 'The Daily Show,' we had some puppets made of myself, John Oliver, and Jon Stewart. When I left the show, I stole the puppet. I took what was rightfully mine.

Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.

I stole a little snow globe from the set of the first 'Pitch Perfect' that I don't think ever made it on-screen, so it's not like fans would be tickled by that information, but I still have it.

I don't do manbags! But don't flaunt your money, your most expensive camera or your best watch. And don't use a cashpoint in the middle of nowhere, or carry anything loose; it might get stolen by someone racing past on a scooter.

I had a 325 - a little red sports car, but it got stolen.

I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!

My artwork gets stolen all the time; it's ridiculous.

When you have the confidence that you can go four, five, six possessions where you're just squeezing the other team's offense, getting stops, and then with our ability to run the floor, with LeBron James being the quarterback of that action and being in attack mode, we have a strong belief in what we can accomplish as a group.

I don't have any artifacts of my profession in my house; the Oscar is in storage.

by 1900, the tribes owned less than 2 percent of the land they once possessed. Entire languages had already disappeared—more than a loss of words, a loss of a way to look at the world.

Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed. —VIDA D. SCUDDER, The Life of the Spirit in the Modern English Poets

Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.

Merchant: ". . . If you are without possessions, how can you give?" Siddhartha: "Everyone gives what he has. The soldier gives strength, the merchant goods, the teacher instruction, the farmer rice, the fisherman fish." Merchant: "Very well, and what can you give? What have you learned that you can give?" Siddhartha: "I can think, I can wait, I can fast." Merchant: "Is that all?" Siddhartha: "I think that is all.

She [Cressida] knows it is men's sexual desire that makes women "angels" before they have been able to possess them; once possessed, women are "things" [Troilus and Cressida I.2, 225-28, 233-34].

You can't own something unless you can swallow it

You want to kill a place, name it. A name only draws the people there who will kill it again. They slice it up or tear it down; they rape the women, burn everyone on pyres, and then, thinking they own it, they name it again. Stupid. Enough to know 'there is a hill and good water, a cross in the road and a strong oak tree.' But do not say it out loud. A home should always stay secret or someone will come to steal it.

your character was the only thing you ever wholly and truly possessed.

It led to the unrelenting hunger of hearts, to lustful, searching eyes, and creeping, confident hands, to souls who believed that what they could touch they could own.

Universals bring us together not by imposing a common structure on us but by revealing that we share what we don't have and can never have. The fact that no one can have a universal—no one possesses freedom or equality—is the source of their emancipatory quality. Universals are not possessions to have or lose or give away. We don't have to be suspicious of the universals because no one can ever impose them on us, even if someone wanted to.

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.

People sometimes think that I bring home all these old books because I'm addicted, that I'm no better than a hoarder with a houseful of crumbling newspapers.

The story and the characters of 'Girl Online' are mine.

I was an only child and I wasn't going to share anything with anybody.