Quotes About Possession

But Walter was only interested in what Nina was carrying. She was the one with the food.

I intend to marry Michael, and squander all his money and run his life, and make sure he never again consorts with wicked women or gambles with licentious men. I promise I will henpeck him until he has no life beyond what I allow him, and when we die, I will lie in his arms through all eternity.

Ask of me, and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession. —PSALM 2:8

One thing is certain, anyone who collects art is not an artist.

Romantic love is an obsession. It possesses you. You lose your sense of self. You can't stop thinking about another human being.

We keep stuff in order to hang on to what's important, but it's an illusion ... These objects are not bridges to the past, they're bridges to memories of the past. But they are not the past.

Politics in the 1930s was not a "personal option", not something they could take or leave, be or not be. It was a molten flow engulfing the world to remake it, taking possession of personal lives, whether their owners willed it or not,

It was the dread that comes about when you are allowed to have something that seems costly and yet you're not asked for payment.

Yes, but that's personal preference and our desire to honor what's ours, Day," Hilde said. "I know," said Day. "And I do. But I want to read everything. When it comes to books and who can put things in them and get things out of them, it's all ours. And all theirs too. So we go in, see what books they have, take a few and replace them with a few of ours." "No

If her fingers touched the photograph it was hers. If it was out of her reach then it belonged to the room.

7 Si has tenido y has dado, el mundo afirma que has perdido lo que poseías. 8 La verdad mantiene que dar incrementa lo que posees.

you leave me sitting here writing long margin notes in library books that don't belong to me, some day they'll find out i did it and take my library card away.

Tienes el Viaje a América de De Tocqueville? Alguien tomó prestado el mío, y no me lo ha devuelto. ¿Por qué será que personas a las que jamás se les pasaría por la imaginación robar nada encuentran perfectamente lícito robar libros?

I own 150 books, but I have no bookcase. Because nobody will lend me a bookcase.

It was her work of art, her poem and her prayer, to repeat this story, low and precipitately, as if she were in the confessional. You felt that she came to it quite naturally, without transition, so completely did it posses her whenever they were alone.

Classicism, a brief, perfectly balanced instant of complete possession of forms; not a slow and monotonous application of 'rules,' but a pure, quick delight, like the acme of the Greeks, so delicate that the pointer of the scale scarcely trembles …

To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?

Men over-estimate what they desire Through ignorance of it: credulous Pursuit Thinks his betrothed, Possession, is divine; But finds she is a mortal like himself.

Man loves most that which is his own.

To inherit property is not to be born -- it is to be still-born, rather.

Sometimes you thought you had a thing—but then part of it—or all of it—always got away. Life itself could not be possessed, really, not even a minute of it.

If you make what they need, and sell it at a price which makes possession a help and not a hardship, then you will do business as long as there is business to do. People buy what helps them just as naturally as they drink water.

As no man made the land, so no man can claim a right of ownership in the land.

You find a passenger with his baggage strewn over the seats. You say: Will you give me a seat, if you please, sir? He replies: No; I bought this seat. Bought this seat? From whom did you buy it? I bought it from the man who got out at the last station, That is the way we manage this earth of ours.