Quotes About Possession

Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.

Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.

Thought, if I may put it, is the man behind the possession, appearance, things we like, things we hate and the very epitome of life.

The real rich people doesn't have bank accounts, they have treasures.

Pray to God, pretending as God is only yours.

My power is my property. My power gives me property. My power am I myself, and through it am I my property.

As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Records of Nevis, they received a deed to property

Hoeveel minder begerenswaardig zou Madelon misschien zijn als ik haar niet aan iemand ontstelen moest!

Here, in Egypt, the morning of Alexander's adventure ends. Henceforth he is divided; Alexandria is his first possession and he is no longer free.

the tenets of socialism: Own nothing individually. And then no one can take anything away from you.

mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.

Before she'd shared his bed, life had been pointless, but now it had become unbearable. She had appeared from nowhere and returned to it, but she'd taken over his life, left with a lien on his body, a mortgage on his soul.

What power there is in the word my.

economist Henri Truchy noted: We judged it better to content ourselves with the untroubled possession of the domestic market than to risk the hazards of the world market, and we built a solid fortress of tariffs. Within the boundaries of this limited, but assured market, the French live calmly, comfortably enough, and leaving to others the torment of great ambition, are no more than spectators in the struggles for economic supremacy.16

Only an income-producing possession, such as a stock, bond, or working piece of real estate is a true investment.

There are two kinds of people in the world, Norman. People who have things and people who want the things other people have. A day don't go by that there's not war somewhere in this world. A war to end all wars? That's like saying a disease to end all diseases. Only way that'll happen is when every human being on this earth is dead.

There are two kinds of people in the world, Norman. People who have things and people who want the things other people have.

I admit--no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed-

Ninguém a quem valha a pena conhecer pode ser propriamente conhecido. Ninguém que valha a pena possuir pode ser realmente possuído.

no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed...

It is a childish realization, I admit—no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed—but after all, we were children.

And then he would come. To his senses. For who knew better than Justin Chase where all of that emotional attachment would lead. The holding would devolve into a jealous clench, the loving would become a bitter chain around both their necks, the possession would turn into soul-killing ownership, the sun-dappled future would darken, the spawn would die, and there would be nothing left but the misery and the pain.

You have seen, that the Properties of Nature are, and can be, nothing else in their own Life, but a restless Hunger, Disquiet, and blind Strife for they know not what, till the Property of Light and Love has got Possession of them.