Quotes About Possession

I don't. I don't want anybody else to touch you. I'm silly. I get furious if they touch you.

Mean everything in the world to you after you bought it. Simple exchange of values. You give them money. They give you a stuffed dog...all right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs.

I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

Some say that in writing you can never possess anything until you have given it away or, if you are in a hurry, you may have to throw it away.

Te he visto, monada, y ya eres mía, por más que esperes a quien quieras y aunque nunca vuelva a verte, pensé. Eres mía y todo París es mío y yo soy de este cuaderno y de este lápiz.

the clasp of the gold chain

We don't like to be intimate alone. Some couples take this one step further, confusing intimacy with control. What passes for care is actually convert surveillance. .. When the impulse to share becomes obligatory, when personal boundaries are no longer respected, when only the shared space of togetherness is acknowledged and private space is denied, fusion replaces intimacy and possession co-opts love.

A definition I have found helpful is that envy relates to something you want but do not have, whereas jealousy relates to something you have but are afraid of losing. Therefore, envy is a tango between two people, yet the dance of jealousy requires three. Envy and jealousy are close cousins and often become intertwined.

Possessions can be, and most often are, a distraction from the real work of a knight's life. A lion doesn't own anything at all, yet we all know his power.

Thank God. You are now a little bit lighter, you are a little bit more you. 'Cause if you can lose it—a car, an idea, a belief, a woman—it wasn't yours.

Memory lived not in initial possession but in the freed hands, pardoned and freed, and in the heart that can empty but fill again, in the patterns restored by dreams.

Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them - with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. ...I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them...

What's the penalty for possessing meth in California?" Winter asked. "A stern talking to?" "Pretty much. If that. It's a misdemeanor. A violation of the Health and Safety Code. There's a fine. You can get up to a year in jail if you did something stupid while you were high, like drove your car over a group of schoolchildren. Something like that might be frowned upon.

Sovereignty and kingship are never decided by academic debate. They are seized by force. The Ottoman dynasty appropriated by force the government of the Turks, and reigned over them for six centuries. Now the Turkish nation has effectively gained possession of its sovereignty… This is an accomplished fact… If those assembled here … see the matter in its natural light, we shall all agree. Otherwise, facts will still prevail, but some heads may roll.

She'd become an idea. She was an abstract thing I wanted, a thing that I already had , really, if I could keep it.

It's very common for people coming from a broken home to want material possessions around them. They are building their own nests.

It's very common for people coming from a broken home to want material possessions around them. They are building their own nests.

We owe to the Jews,' wrote Winston Churchill in 1920, 'a system of ethics which, even if it were entirely separated from the supernatural, would be incomparably the most precious possession of mankind, worth in fact the fruits of all wisdom and learning put together.

A country like my own, Britain – which still occupies Gilbraltar captured in the 18th century, the Falklands captured in the 19th century and the Channel Islands which belonged to France until 1468, and rightly so in each case – is being absurdly hypocritical when it criticises Israel for retaining territory vital to her survival, which Gilbraltar, the Falklands and the Channel Island certainly aren't to Britain's.

And the girl?" Yarpen indicated Ciri with his head as she wriggled under the sheepskin. "Yours?" "Mine," he replied without thinking. "Mine, Zigrin.

Men like to meet their former lovers, like to relive memories. They like to imagine that erstwhile erotic ecstasies give them some kind of perpetual ownership of their partner. It enhances their self-importance.

Men like to see their former lovers again to reminisce about the good old times. They take pleasure in imagining that their bygone love affairs assure them a perpetual right of possession on their ex-partners. It's good for their self-esteem. You're no exception, apparently.

Begone from this body!' bellowed Scharley. 'You catamite fucked in the arse!

I wanted to possess all the books I had already read, as well as all those I had not - every book in the whole wide world, in other words.