Quotes About Possession

I got a house full of Rembrandts and priceless art, and all the little girls they wanna tear me apart.

I primarily buy art to show it off.

Collectors become obsessive and then addicted. You become addicted to art and you can't live without it.

The internet is intimate. Everybody collects the art on the internet, everybody owns the art and enjoys it only for their self, completely selfishly.

Things belong to the people that use them, not to the people who create them.

loved any man. She was committed but never owned. And when it no longer felt right, or got too close, she moved on. Her aloofness was a challenge to most men, and to Jean-Louis. They wanted to possess her and to

There is nothing going on. I took nothing you wanted. You can't have it back.

What do you do with all your money? Me and the French hoard gold.

Gutman smiled benignly at him and said: "Well, Wilmer, I'm sorry indeed to lose you, and I want you to know that I couldn't be any fonder of you if you were my own son; but—well, by Gad!—if you lose a son it's possible to get another—and there's only one Maltese falcon.

Siento perderte, y quiero que sepas que no te tendría más cariño si fueras hijo mío. Pero, compréndelo, si se pierde un hijo, siempre es posible tener otro; en cambio, sólo existe un halcón maltés.

You're mine, Wasp

It means that money is ephemeral, moving from person to person," Hamood said. "It's a tool. Don't let it get into your heart or your soul." Mokhtar spent a year with Hamood

I have never understood why it is 'greed' to want to keep the money you've earned, but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.

While perhaps some would see it as a small issue, the fact was, if debts remained unpaid, whatever followed would genuinely be the collapse of civilization as any of them would know it...And he and millions of others had just fought a world war to ensure that neither anarchy nor fascism nor anything else would replace the reasonable screwing over of people without money by those who possessed damn near all of it.

Basically, in Alabama if you have a pulse you can have a gun, as many of them as you want.

A measure of earth under your feet that you could call your own. Was there a more primitive concept? But nobody lives in the ether.

Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.

But property rights are not the rights of property; they are the rights of humans with regard to property. They are a particular kind of human right.

Material possession is one thing, but ideological passion disgusts us on some deep level.

He knows, now, that nearly everything you call yours in the world can be taken away from you by other people, assuming that they want it enough.

You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life.

For it falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us While it was ours.

Look, how this ring encompasseth thy finger, Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart; Wear both of them, for both of them are thine.

Beshrew your eyes, They have o'erlook'd me and divided me; One half of me is yours, the other half yours, Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours, And so all yours.