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Quotes About Possession

Everything has got a place in my house. If something is moved I get a panic attack.
~ Rylan Clark-Neal
People would rather have art or gold instead of paper money.
~ Eli Broad
It's almost as if a demon might have passed from one host to another.
~ John Forbes Nash, Jr.
The truth is I like the style of playing the ball out and hitting long passes.
~ Aymeric Laporte
I like to have the ball first of all and to pass, these short passes to create the space at the right moment.
~ Ilkay Gundogan
If you're having sequences where you're keeping 20 passes or more, then you're only growing in confidence in the game.
~ Clint Dempsey
I'd say my main quality is keeping the ball and my passing.
~ Matteo Guendouzi
Love everything but do not strive to possess anything.
~ Peter Lorimer
It is in this way that we should approach the story of the pearl of great price: understanding that if we were to sell everything that we possessed in order to own a priceless pearl, then we would become the poorest of all, having nothing of value except for the pearl itself. We would not be able to purchase food or pay for shelter. We would be destitute. The only thing we would be able to do would be to sell the pearl. But then we would no longer have the pearl.
~ Peter Rollins
Ich glaube, das ist es, was ich an Büchern immer gemocht habe. Dass sie unabänderlich sind. Man muss sie gar nicht lesen. Es reicht, sie zu besitzen, sie in die Hand zu nehmen und zu wissen, dass sie immer so bleiben, wie sie sind.
~ Peter Stamm
To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.
~ Peter Tosh
Excuse me? Those are my fun-sized mobile agony and death dispensers. They're works of art! You can break your own stuff, thank you very much.
~ Phil Foglio
Julian arrived in Juarez with all his possessions contained in a single battered cardboard suitcase on August 3, 1948. He and Mercedes were married on August 9 at Juarez City Hall, in the Presidency Building, before a few friends and no family.
~ Philip Carlo
His clothes fit him so ill, and constrain him so much, that he seems rather their prisoner than their proprietor.
~ Philip Dormer Stanhope
Hey!" he said. "That's one of my best shirts!" "So?" she replied without looking up. "It's one of my best legs.
~ Philip Reeve
On sent que cela monte, que l'explosion de colère est proche. Il dit qu'il n'admet pas l'emploi du « on ». Quoi ? « On » va guérir ? Qui ? Elle ? Elle est malade ? C'est quoi ce besoin biscornu de s'approprier un mal qui n'est pas le sien, dont elle ne sait rien ou presque, dont elle ne mourra pas ?
~ Philippe Besson
Gracious, there's that horrible cat! Don't touch him, miss. He's possessed. He goes and comes as he pleases and there's no help for it. I do believe he goes through closed doors, he's that sneaky.
~ Phyllis A. Whitney
In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession.
~ Phyllis Schlafly
Poor as the poor myself, I cling tight, like them, to demeaning hopes; like them, every day of my life I fight/just to live/Yet in my disheartening condition as one of the dispossessed, I still possess--and it's the most thrilling of bourgeois possessions, the ultimate state of being. Yet as I possess history, I am possessed by it, I am enlightened by it: but what good is the light?
~ Pier Paolo Pasolini
The dog lives here, Pete. You're just visiting.
~ Marge Schott
I sometimes feel like it's my world and everyone is just visiting.
~ Alyssa Edwards
It is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as though something within me presses a switch and my own consciousness merges into some other, greater, more vital being.
~ Conrad Veidt
My religion is my most precious possession. Except for it, I could easily have become excessively occupied with industry. Sharing responsibility for church work has been a vital counterbalance in my life.
~ George W. Romney
It is vital to maintain possession and to win it back as soon as possible, because if we win it high up, then the opposition has to run 70 metres.
~ Manuel Pellegrini