Quotes About Possession

You are the only thing in my life that's ever been mine," he said. I was surprised then by the warmth of his hand on my thigh. "Would like to keep you." "Well, let's maybe see if we can do that without spilling any blood.

Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his real girlfriend.

I've named everything that I've ever owned. Real or inanimate, I have to give it a first and last name. Everything in my apartment comes alive at night.

Si te marchas, haré un muñeco de cera, con tu rostro, con tu cuerpo, y le clavaré alfileres negros, todas las noches, todas las noches. [...] Nunca vivirás en paz. Nunca vivirás en paz. Llenaré de alfileres tu corazón...

I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of wedlock.

The moment a book is lent I begin to miss it.

Never lend books - nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.

Ne prêtez pas vos livres:personnes ne les rends jamais. Les seuls livres que j'ai dans ma bibliothèques sont des livres qu'on m'a prêtés.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine were taken away.

Ich glaube an die künftige Auflösung dieser scheinbar so gegensätzlichen Zustände von Traum und Wirklichkeit in einer Art absoluter Realität, wenn man so sagen kann: Surrealität. Nach ihrer Eroberung strebe ich, sicher, sie nicht zu erreichen, zu unbekümmert jedoch um meinen Tod, um nicht zumindest die Freuden eines solchen Besitzes abzuwägen.

Qu'entendez-vous par : l'intelligence ? - En général ? - Oui. Ferral réfléchit. - La possession des moyens de contraindre les choses ou les hommes. Gisors sourit imperceptiblement. Chaque fois qu'il posait cette question, son interlocuteur, quel qu'il fût, répondait par le portrait de son désir, ou par l'image qu'il se faisait de lui-même.

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.

Todo es tuyo. A todo tienes derecho y cóbralo caro.

Peyton gathered Carrie Ann in his arms and the couple began to waltz. What a fine sight they made, Carrie gazing adoringly up into Peyton's smiling face. He held her gently yet possessively, as if she were a rare treasure, which indeed she was. And then … mercy! The rascal kissed her right on the mouth.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he justly entitled.

A man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

All history is just one man trying to take something away from another man, and usually it doesn't really belong to either of them.

Cela istorija je samo jedan ?ovek koji pokušava da nešto oduzme drugom ?oveku, a obi?no to jedno ne pripada nijednom od njih.

To be weighed down by things - books, furniture - seems somehow terrible to me.

My most prized possession is my pillow. I can't travel or sleep without it. And it's, like, this really thin down pillow that really doesn't do anything, but it's weird: if I don't have it, I'm constantly thinking about not having it.

I can't throw anything away. Anything. I'm going to end up like one of those old weirdos who lives in a network of tunnels burrowed through trash - yet I do not fear this.