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Quotes About Possession

Moreover the present abundance3 of private cars is nothing other than the result of the non-stop propaganda through which capitalist production persuades the mob--and in this case is one of its most confounding successes--that the possession of a car is specifically one of the privileges our society reserves for its privileged members.
~ Unknown
All that you've loved is all you own
~ Tom Waits
A gift isn't yours until you take it.
~ Unknown
If a man can possess a woman sexually -really possess- he won't need to control her ideas, her opinions, her clothes, her friends, even her other lovers.
~ Toni Bentley
If a man can possess a woman sexually -really possess- he won't need to control her ideas, her opinions, her clothes, her friends, even her other lovers.
~ Toni Bentley
owned by some corporation that
~ Tony Hillerman
What I want is not to want what isn't mine
~ Tori Amos
Allting blir svårt när man vill äga saker, bära dem med sig och ha dem. Jag bara tittar på dem och när jag går min väg har jag dem inne i huvudet och kan ha roligare saker för mig än att bära kappsäckar.
~ Tove Jansson
Clever of you, Hemul. But, on the other hand, think how lonely the Groke is because nobody likes her, and she hates everybody. The Contents is perhaps the only thing she has. Would you now take that away from her too -- lonely and rejected in the night?" Sniff became more and more affected and his voice trembled. "Cheated out of her only possession by Thingumy and Bob." He blew his nose and couldn't go on.
~ Tove Jansson
The garnets would have gone in the rucksack," said Sniff miserably. "You don't need hands for that. It's not the same thing at all just looking at them. I want to touch them and know they're mine.
~ Tove Jansson
Du bist kein Sammler mehr, nur noch ein Besitzer, und das macht überhaupt nicht so viel Spaß.«
~ Tove Jansson
And evidently it was a well-known fact that a single vicar, in possession of a modest fortune, must be in need of a wife.
~ Unknown
What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.
~ Tryon Edwards
What happens if the scroll gets destroyed? Is your magic gone forever?" "No, then it comes back to me,
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Queen Scarlet took the dragonets." "Yes," said Nautilus drily. "We gathered that much from how she's practically been standing on the tallest mountain shouting, 'I have the dragonets of destiny! They're all mine!
~ Tui T. Sutherland
a full-grown kitsune can often read minds, see the future, fly, possess people, and create illusions that mimic reality.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
I've wanted to get my claws on it for years. I assume you read it. What happens next? Say the words 'Wasp dies slowly and horribly' and I'll make you my heir.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
you can't own one. They are non-importable
~ Unknown
In prison I was known as El Entrenador—The Coach—because I was willing to teach strength training techniques and skills, for a price. But I was an exception—knowledge is power, and is jealously guarded inside prison, like all useful possessions. On the outside you can pick up a personal trainer at any gym. They are overpriced, and most of them know jack about genuine, productive training. You may get lucky and find a good one, but these are rare. In
~ Unknown
One cannot have love without ownership
~ Unknown
Blessed are the insulted and the shat upon,' Barbie said. 'For they shall inherit the kingdom of Heaven, which is currently under offer with vacant possession.
~ Paul Scott
I had cooperated. I could not have refused. I was smitten with her, half in love but also afraid, because in my life (and she seemed to know this) I had not loved anyone without having been wounded. Love was power and possession, love caused pain: you were never more exposed than when you were in love, never more wounded; possession was an enslavement, something stifling.
~ Paul Theroux
Thus he would possess her as a god possesses his creatures, whom he lays hold of in the guise of a monster or a bird, of an invisible spirit or a state of ecstasy.
~ Pauline Réage
She had nothing more to give than what he already possessed. At least so she thought. He
~ Pauline Réage