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Quotes About Possession

I strongly believe that the Second Amendment creates an individual right to possess and use guns for purposes of both hunting and self-defense.
~ Cass Sunstein
Used titanium hunting knife: sixty-three dollars. Value: priceless.
~ Tina St. John
There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property.
~ WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
We have all lost our possessions and many of us our homes," he said. "But these losses, severe though they may seem, remind us of what no person can take, and that is our minds and our imaginations.
~ Lloyd Jones
What a sense of possession, of confidence, it gave one to have pockets, to shove one's fists into them, as if in simply owning pockets one owned riches, owned independence.
~ Anita Desai
He only is rich who owns the day.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
~ John D. Rockefeller
In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents.
~ Jose Mourinho
An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it
~ Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.
~ Muhammad Ali
Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
~ Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
The earth is the Lord's.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
They say, they own a piece of land. I say, you don't even own your own body.
~ Vinita Kinra
This is my mind, i own it!
~ Anthony Jacob
Your Potential is all that you can HAVE but have not yet possessed. No limits. No boundaries
~ Fela Durotoye
You cannot give what you don't have
~ Anonymous
The acquisition of a book signalled not just the potential acquisition of knowledge but also something like the property rights to a piece of ground: the knowledge became a visitable place.
~ James Wood
I own these words. I own these ideas. Here is my book.
~ Jami Attenberg
pray for his sound health and safekeeping, and trust God in everything. She knew such wisdom in her head, but complete trust was, as her mother said, 'yet to build a station in her heart and erect its flag of undisputed possession.
~ Jan Karon
Hebt u nog ouwe spulletjes? Alleen mezelf.
~ Jan Wolkers
Only now, when it is too late, do I long for Dearth. I was a misbegotten child of bad blood and bile, and I mistook my own orneriness for cleverness. I presumed to know what happiness was - something I could possess, like a marble, or a man. Something I could only find elsewhere. But just when I started to find it at home, I outfoxed myself and lost it forever.
~ Jane Avrich
If I was mad, it was in this, that I had believed such a possession would protect me from the assassin.
~ Janis Cooke Newman
If I was mad, it was in this, that I had believed such a possession would protect me from the assassin. That was my lunacy. For no possession I owned had ever protected anyone I loved.
~ Janis Cooke Newman