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Quotes About Possession

It felt as if we were fighting something worse than Anne, some demon that possessed her, that possessed all of us Boleyns: ambition—the devil that had brought us to this little room and brought my sister to this insane distress, and us to this savage battle.
~ Philippa Gregory
I felt as if we were fighting something worse than Anne, some demon that possessed her, that possessed all of us Boleyns: ambition - the devil that had brought us to this little room and brought my sister to this insane distress and us to this savage battle.
~ Unknown
love,' she said, 'may be described generally as the love of the everlasting possession of the good?
~ Plato
But far more dangerous are the others, who began when you were children, and took possession of your minds with their falsehoods
~ Plato
Education, I said, and nurture: If our citizens are well educated, and grow into sensible men, they will easily see their way through all these, as well as other matters which I omit; such, for example, as marriage, the possession of women and the procreation of children, which will all follow the general principle that friends have all things in common, as the proverb says. That
~ Plato
Y así, la posesión y práctica de lo que a cada uno es propio será reconocida como justicia.
~ Plato
Because to the mortal creature, generation is a sort of eternity and immortality,' she replied; 'and if, as has been already admitted, love is of the everlasting possession of the good, all men will necessarily desire immortality together with good: Wherefore love is of immortality.
~ Plato
If everything belongs to everybody, nobody will take care of anything.
~ Plato
Myrnin said softly. And how is it that you do not understand that HERE, in THIS place, this girl belongs to me, not to you?
~ Rachel Caine
From Shane's Point of View: Jester talking to Shane: What's the matter? You afraid you'd bite your skinny little girlfriend? Jester laughed. She's already someone else's, you know. I can smell the bite on her. He's marked her. Myrnin. Shut up, I said, and kicked him in the face.
~ Rachel Caine
Let's say that it belong to me as much as it belongs to anyone alive today. If I am, strictly speaking, living. The old word was undead, you know, but aren't all living things undead. I dislike imprecision.
~ Rachel Caine
She was sending Shane into the predawn darkness with a few chosen fighters, both vampire and human, to take possession of the Bloodmobile: the last reliably accessible blood storage in Morganville.
~ Rachel Caine
For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and future.
~ Rachel Carson
I possess everyone who sleeps in the motor court, roam their memories, and embed recurrent nightmares that will destroy their sleep for weeks after I've departed them." "I'd prefer a free continental breakfast.
~ Dean Koontz
and about two hundred thousand dollars' worth of rings.
~ Dean Koontz
Lacking television, radio, or internet, she hoards seven CD players with six-disc magazines
~ Dean Koontz
Witch's spell or not, he would take her, possess her- own her. It wasn't his intent when he kissed her. Fires of damnation! He never planned to kiss the wench! It just...happened.
~ Unknown
To love in the sense of passion-love is the contrary of to live. It is an impoverishment of one's being, an askesis without sequel, an inability to enjoy the present without imagining it as absent, a never-ending flight from possession.
~ Denis de Rougemont
It was ordained that you would have the title to the thing and I would have the thing itself.
~ Denis Diderot
Half the people in our asylums may be suffering from a physical lesion of the brain but the others are unaccountably insane. The real reason is demoniac possession brought about by looking upon terrible things that they were never meant to see.
~ Unknown
You are mine and I am yours.
~ Unknown
Damn right I begrudge! I grudge every memory of yours that doesna hold me, and every tear ye've shed for another, and every second you've spent in another man's bed!
~ Diana Gabaldon
You're mine, damn ye, Claire Fraser! Mine, and I wilna share ye, with a man or a memory, or anything whatever, so long as both shall live.
~ Diana Gabaldon
You're mine, mo duinne...Mine alone, now and forever...Aye, I mean to use ye hard, my Sassenach...I want to own you, to posses you, body and soul. pge 319
~ Diana Gabaldon