Quotes About Possession

One of the fundamental ways man adapts is to acquire and possess property. It is how he makes his home, finds or grows food, makes clothing, and generally improves his life. Private property is not an artificial construct. It is endemic to human nature and survival.

And at the center of what is left of the American republic is the Constitution. The Constitution is the bedrock on which the nation was built. As Thomas Jefferson explained, "Our peculiar security is in possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction."2

It came to my house. It sat on my shoulders. Your shadow is yours. I told it so. I said it was yours. I have carried it with me too long. I give it back.

Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others—his last breath.

Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.

Funny, I never shopped. Even my jewelry - not a piece of my jewelry I bought for me.

Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.

Night is mine, together with a substantial part of the future.

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

Love me and the world is mine

The greatest possession we have costs nothing, it's known as love

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom. Love allows you to choose to make your own Decisions to live in accordance with your own choices.

and there you have it, another body on the floor surrounded by things that don't mean much to anyone except to the one who can't take any of them along.

Nobody ever own a gun. You don't know that until you own one.

Tirar a la basura es un gesto de poder. El poder prescindir de bienes que otros necesitarían; el poder de saber que otros se ocuparían de desaparecerlo. El poder de poseer es placentero; nunca más que el poder de deshacerse: el poder de no necesitar la posesión. El poder verdadero es desdeñarlo.

An inscribed Casino Royale in a fine dust jacket costs as much as a small house. The earliest books of John le Carré are worth a king's ransom in fine condition.

Your soul is all that you possess. Take it in hand and make something of it!

It's so nice to be around a man who isn't hung up about his car," she said. "Mom, I can't believe you're saying that. You treat that Coupe Deville like it's a member of the family." "But I'm a woman, darling. I'm supposed to feel that way about my Deville.

Are we not to call Christ ours because we have not made him but only received him? Again, if we are the makers of things that are called ours, then we must have made our eyes, we must have made our hands, we must have made our feet, unless eyes, hands and feet are not to be called ours.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.