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Quotes About Possession

Ima prostora i za vas i za vaš ponos, mislim ovdje, u ku?i. Soba je prazna; možete je imati svu za sebe i za ?avla koji se uvijek na?e u takvom lošem društvu!
~ Emily Bronte
Are you possessed with a devil,' he pursued, savagely, 'to talk in that manner to me when you are dying? Do you reflect that all those words will be branded in my memory, and eating deeper eternally after you have left me?
~ Emily Bronte
To own a Susan of my own Is of itself a Bliss — Whatever realm I forfeit, Lord, Continue me in this!
~ Emily Dickinson
Peril as a possession 'T is good to bear, Danger disintegrates satiety; There's Basis there Begets an awe, That searches Human Nature's creases As clean as Fire.
~ Emily Dickinson
It's weird to have something that's mine-not-Ma's. Everything else is both of ours. I guess my body is mine and the ideas that happen in my head. But my cells are made out of her cells so I'm kind of hers.
~ Emma Donoghue
My truffles? You took them? That's just mean!
~ Eoin Colfer
Protect what belongs to you at all costs; don't desire what belongs to another.
~ Epictetus
It is one thing to put bread and wine away in a store-room, and quite another to eat them. What is eaten is digested and distributed around the body, to become sinews, flesh, bones, blood, a good complexion, sound breathing. What is stored away is ready at hand, to be sure, to be taken out and displayed whenever you wish, but you derive no benefit from it, except that of having the reputation of possessing it. [
~ Epictetus
For you will learn by experience that it's true: the things that men admire and work so hard to get prove useless to them once they're theirs.
~ Epictetus
Loss and sorrow are only possible with respect to things we own.
~ Epictetus
Ownership, even in love, is an illusion. No woman owned any man and no man owned any woman.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
You did not pick up this book because you were interested in the neo-pagan revival. You picked it up because, from earliest childhood, you, like the author and the artist, have been haunted by - at times possessed by - the figure of the witch. Les us turn now to her. We will find her inside ourselves.
~ Erica Jong
Quel homme possède jamais une femme ? Quel homme possède jamais la vérité ?
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Iubirea ta este numai a ta. ÎÈ›i aparÈ›ine. Chiar dac? ea o refuz?, nu poate schimba nimic. Doar c? nu profit?. Momo, ceea ce oferi r?mâne la tine mereu; ceea ce p?strezi este pierdut pentru totdeauna.
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Human beings had two basic orientations: HAVING and BEING HAVING: seeks to acquire, posses things even people BEING: focuses on the experience; exchanging, engaging, sharing with other people
~ Erich Fromm
Capitalism puts things (capital) higher than life (labor). Power follows from possession, not from activity.
~ Erich Fromm
The full humanization of man requires the breakthrough from the possession-centered to the activity-centered orientation, from selfishness and egotism to solidarity and altruism.
~ Erich Fromm
Property, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Rejoy has several meanings, the first two of which are somewhat noble, and more than somewhat boring. The third meaning, however, is probably the most applicable one for most people, as so many of us cannot seem to enjoy things unless we possess them. Which explains the existence of shopping malls. Remord
~ Ammon Shea
It indicates possession for plural nouns, between the end of the plural word and the s that follows, as in children's. Except when the word ends in an s, in which case it should come at the end of the word, with no additional s added ("the books' covers").
~ Ammon Shea
The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
Fucking mine, you hear me? Mine—no one else's, you're fucking mine and I fucking want you. I want you, and I'm taking you, and I'm never giving you back!
~ Amy Lane
Then you understand," he growled. "Nobody but me gets to see your nightmares. You're going to play the caveman thing with me, then we're both in the same goddamned cave.
~ Amy Lane
that one thing I have control over? That shit is mine.
~ Amy Lane