Quotes About Possession

I hate the idea of people nicking my stuff, but in all honesty, I'm pretty well off. If a genuinely desperate man on his last gasp nicks my coat from the pub on a freezing night, well, he's welcome to it. It'll change his life. Mine's only inconvenienced by having to buy another one.

Most of the Jewish refugees, stripped of their considerable possessions, came to Israel. They were welcomed by the Jewish state. They were given shelter and support, and they were integrated into Israeli society together with half a million survivors of the European Holocaust.

With 'The Exorcist,' a lot of things went into it. I hadn't seen the show until they asked me, and then I checked the show out and thought it was very well done.

We practically own everything in the Philippines.

I think our young people are our most precious possession.

Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs.

My most precious possession is a 13.5-feet-long fishing rod, made by an American firm called Loomis.

When I don't have control of the ball, what do I do? I press to get it back. It's a way of defending.

If a defender has the ball and turns, we start pressing the goalkeeper before he passes back because if they make a mistake, it is a chance.

When people come up to me and say, 'I read your book,' I'm thinking, 'How dare you! Who gave you a copy?'

If you don't control the ball, you're dead.

I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.

I'm not a player to defend or run around. I want the ball.

The best form of defense is to have the ball.

You never really own a diamond. You just get to keep it for a while before it begins a new journey with someone else.

It's time we permanently repeal the tax on possessions that people leave to their children.

Against Chelsea, you will have periods in the game when you are right up against it, when they keep the ball. They are pretty solid the way they set their team up.

I always try to manage the ball in a way that can help the way my teammates receive it.

I want to help my teammates, even if I'm a striker, because it's important to win back possession. But scoring is something incomparable.

I try to attack the glass, get rebounds and create possessions for my teammates because that's what I'm here to do. But if they face guard or put two or three guys on me I'm going to keep going to the glass and keep being relentless.

You pressure, you want possession, you want to attack. Some teams can't or don't pass the ball. What are you playing for? What's the point? That's not football. Combine, pass, play. That's football - for me, at least.

It has the pictures of my people, the books I love, the music I hear. I guess it is really just a wooden box to hold a life in, for days or decades, until someone else takes it over.

Another good tip is to set boundaries on your beloved accumulations. When the yarn or drawings or tiles or glass or whatever reach a certain level, stop collecting and start disposing. You know in your heart that in the blink of an eye, more will come your way.

I)f you prayed for the miracle you'd sell your most treasured possession for, you don't care about anything else but waiting on that miracle.