Quotes About Possession

I didnt loose my mind, it was mine to give away

In this case, because we know that the things that are difficult to possess are typically better than those that are easy to possess, we can often use an item's availability to help us quickly and correctly decide on its quality.

The joy is not in experiencing a scarce commodity but in possessing it.

Mothers sometimes are overly possessive, but not all children allow themselves to be possessed.

If you divide the world into them and us, and history into ours and theirs, or if you think of history as something only you and your affiliates possess, then no matter what you know, no matter how noble your intentions, you have taken one step toward the destruction of the world.

That's my last Duchess painted on the wall,Looking as if she were alive.

[The rich] are indeed rather possessed by their money than possessors.

Creating this feeling of validation is the golden key that will unlock people's defenses. And we cannot survive and thrive in this highly competitive world without possessing such a power. We must discover the power that we can possess by giving people the validation they crave and lowering their defenses. And the key to making this happen in a realistic and strategic manner is to fully understand a fundamental law of human nature.

Dahmer later stated that he was strongly attracted to Sears and it is perhaps for this reason that he retained some of his body parts, the first time he had done so. He preserved Sears' skull and genitalia in acetone, storing them in his work locker before he moved them to his new apartment the following year. 

There was too little space for their own—and they guarded their own as all Chinese had done from the earliest dynasties.

I think of money only as a medium of exchange. In reality, money by itself has very little value. So as soon as I have money, I want to exchange it for something of real value. The irony is that many people who cling desperately to money spend that money on things of very little value—and that is why they are poor.

I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me…

He was a cat of double personality - or else, as Susan vowed, he was possessed by the devil.

Oh I know. But feeling is so different than knowing. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times where common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.

when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.

But men can forget. If too much time goes by, they can forget what they have. How much they want what they have.

Tita se alejó rápidamente, dejando a John completamente desconcertado. Ella también lo estaba, pero se recuperó de inmediato al sentir en sus brazos a Roberto. Qué le importaba su destino mientras pudiera tener cerca a ese niño, que era más suyo que de nadie

Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.

It is beyond endurance, the continued life of things, when the owner of those things is dead.

A certain type of man, when he loves for the first time, his love is not really love, it is possession. Possessions don't have rights or feelings; they are something to owned and controlled. He had spent more than a year trying to do just that, and failing.

The tears were back, stinging just behind my eyes. There was blood all over my penguins. I didn't give a damn about the walls and carpet. They could be replaced, but I'd collected those damned stuffed toys over years. I let the paramedic lead me away. Tears trickling down my cheeks. I wasn't crying, my eyes were running. My eyes were running because there were pieces of zombie all over my toys. Jesus.

I'm a dog in the manger. I can't have him myself but I don't want anyone else to have him either. Wow. The more I learn about myself, the more selfish I turn out to be.

Wit is the most dangerous talent you can possess. It must be guarded with great discretion and good-nature, otherwise it will create you many enemies." —John Gregory A Father's Legacy to His Daughters , 1774

novels pass in and out of my hands while volumes of poetry are mine for life.