Quotes About Possession

We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well.

I've been fascinated with all kinds of weapons my whole life, and as I have been able to afford to acquire pieces, here and there I started to collect.

Reinstating the federal assault weapons ban that was in effect from 1994 to 2004 would prohibit manufacture and sales, but it would not affect weapons already possessed. This would leave millions of assault weapons in our communities for decades to come.

Britain's independent possession of nuclear weapons has turned into a political touchstone for commitment to national defense, but this is an illusion.

I don't wear jewellery and I don't care about shoes and dresses. But I love my handbags. They're my real luxury.

I do have too many eight-inch heels which I never get to wear.

I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it.

Imagine owning a one million pound coin. Where would you put it? The pressure. I never even take my wedding rings off after the time I lost one for days, only to find it in a random trouser pocket.

But once you've made a song and you put it out there, you don't own it anymore. The public own it. It's their song. It might be their song that they wake up to, or their song they have a shower to, or their song that they drive home to or their song they cry to, scream to, have babies to, have weddings to - like, it isn't your song anymore.

I've got a nice, big house. I've got two nice cars, including a Bentley, and I'm test-driving a Porsche.

If we are quite defensive and we lose the ball, we just try to get back into our positions and try to defend. That's something you have to do from time to time.

In the end, it's like that: The more I possess the ball, the more dominant we play, and the more often we win.

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

I understand the human instinct to want to create a nest and possess things, to show them off, but for me personally, it became less and less interesting.

The crucial thing in any work of any kind is that it must be a gift - the reader must possess it even more than the person who wrote it. It must be given completely.

There is perhaps not an enlightened Christian in America who, notwithstanding he may believe that, at the time of Jesus, men were possessed of devils, believes that they ever have been in any other instance, either before or since.

I was possessed by London.

At 15, I did a ouija board with my best friend. I pretended I was possessed by a ghost, and she believed it.

I did a couple of movies when I was little. You have to be possessed to be an actress, and I was not possessed... It was not my life's passion.

I'm not possessed about owning the Buffalo Bills, just as I wasn't possessed about owning the Buffalo Sabres.

I was really scared of the devil growing up: I was convinced I was going to be possessed.

You could say that I had become possessed, in the classical sense, by the art of the great architects of the past. And that led me to engineering.

Ravi Shankar was an incredible teacher. I sat on stage with Robby Krieger and studied at his school of Indian music here in L.A., so at Royce Hall we were sitting next to him watching his hands bleed while he got possessed. This is the highest level you can get.

Nobody owns the money he/she possesses. They hold it just as a trustee.