Quotes About Possession

I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but to greed to want to take somebody else's money.

It may be, for one reason or another, if I'm not able to work, that would be a cause for distress. But I'm still pitching. Thank God, I'm still in possession of my gift. And I have the love of my family.

At that age, it's one of the worse things in the world to wake up and not see your bike where you left it.

As per the age-old Customs and Central Excise Rules 1967, a person is allowed to carry only Rs 20,000 worth of gold.

No pack knew how these cities came about, but man inhabited them, keeping for himself the warmth they produced in winter, and the dryness that was not affected even by the most violent rain. While the sky poured water or snow, man sat comfortably in the cities. How these things grew and why man possessed them, nobody could say.

the entities that possess them, and the extraordinary power that accompanies them, are not necessarily going to also be more ethically advanced than us.

One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is the grand faculty of arranging his ideas.

Men are not content with a simple life: they are acquisitive, ambitious, competitive, and jealous; they soon tire of what they have, and pine for what they have not; and they seldom desire anything unless it belongs to others.

Thanks be then to nature for this unsociableness, for this envious jealousy and vanity, for this insatiable desire for possession and for power.. Man wishes concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; and she wills discord, in order that man may be impelled to a new exertion of his powers, and to the further development of his natural capacities.

The spirit of property doubles a man's strength. It is certain that the possessor of an estate will cultivate his own inheritance better than that of another.

when everything belongs to everybody nobody will take care of anything.

IV   The bounded is loathed by its possessor. The same dull round even of a universe would soon become a mill with complicated wheels. V   If the many become the same as the few, when possess'd, More! More! is the cry of a mistaken soul, less than All cannot satisfy Man. VI   If any could desire what he is incapable of possessing, despair must be his eternal lot. VII   The desire of Man being Infinite the possession is Infinite & himself Infinite.

We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn.

those who belong properly to books, and to whom books, perhaps, do not quite so properly belong.

You can always sell tools," Skinner had mused, perhaps to Yamazaki, perhaps to himself. "Somebody'll always buy 'em. But then you always need 'em again, exactly the one you sold.

The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers... Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.

There are about 330 million citizens in the United States, and more than 400 million firearms… or enough for every man, woman, and child to own 1, and still have around 70 million firearms left over.

Priya thinks, The things we give away are no longer ours to control.

When a person is intensely angry, the protective webs of the solar plexus chakra, the ajna chakra and sometimes the crown chakra are ruptured. Intense anger attracts negative elementals of a very violent nature. They attach themselves to the angry person through the ruptured protective webs. The angry person then becomes temporarily "possessed" or "insane" and does terrible things that he will not normally do.

the Possession Diet. It's fast. It works. It introduces you to new, healthier foods. And it's almost never fatal.

He likens the physical being to a car, and the spiritual being to the driver. And possession is like carrying a passenger who shares the driving. And occasionally takes the car out for a spin without telling you. And maybe ties you up and stuffs you in the trunk.

yelled 'Where's my stick?

I don't actually own a car.

Is this your stuff? Is this your TV? Did you drop your goddamn TV on my brand new car?