Quotes About Possession

All coaches say, 'We want to control the game. We want the ball. Blah, blah, blah, blah,' but it's impossible to have the ball all the time.

I've collected a lot of things throughout my life, and I think that's more being a hoarder than being passionate about them, and so I've tried to stop that.

I didn't play at collecting. No cigar anywhere was safe from me.

I've been collecting jerseys and shoes my whole career.

Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.

Collection is an addiction.

I have a lot of sapphires in my collection.

A real collector does not sell.

Cat lovers turn into cat collectors.

My brother had boxes of comic books. He was really the collector.

The captain is not in total command of the match. The man who is possessing the ball at a given time is the captain.

Collections collect collectors. It doesn't work the other way around. A certain object misses its own kind and communicates that to some person who surrounds it with rhyming items; these become at first a quorum, then a selective, addictive madness.

'Emily Rose' was based on a real story, and the real girl died, and there were surviving members of the family, so I took the concerns of that very seriously.

I still have the sword of Inigo Montoya - it's mine!

I collect swords, but I'm not really a swordsman.

A lot of people who don't have anything collect dogs; it's kind of a symbol of having something.

You can't win without the ball.

She belonged to him. How could she sit within arm's reach—in his grasp, even—and allow another man to call her lovey? Molly knew better. He

In your patience you shall possess your souls." Luke 21:19

If we choose Jesus as our model, we simultaneously choose his own model, God the Father. Having no appropriative desire, Jesus proclaims the possibility of freedom from scandal. But if we choose possessive models we find ourselves in endless scandals, for our real model is Satan. A seductive tempter who suggests to us the desires most likely to generate rivalries, Satan prevents us from reaching whatever he simultaneously incites us to desire.

If individuals are naturally inclined to desire what their neighbors possess, or to desire what their neighbors even simply desire, this means that rivalry exists at the very heart of human social relations.

La plata es como una droga, lo fundamental es tenerla, saber que está, ir, tocarla, revisar el ropero, entre la ropa, la bolsa, ver que hay medio kilo, que hay cien mil mangos, quedarse tranquilo. Entonces recién se puede seguir viviendo.

Heaven is won or lost on earth; the possession is there, but the preparation is here.

Once I have a mug, I don't want to give it up. But if I don't have one, I don't feel an urgent need to buy one. What this means is that people do not assign specific values to objects. When they have to give something up, they are hurt more than they are pleased if they acquire the very same thing.