Quotes About Possession

For God's sake, let's take the word 'possess' and put a brick round its neck and drown it ... We can't possess one another. We can only give and hazard all we have.

To be possessed is an admirable reason for possessing.

Could I pick some flowers for Miranda?' I asked. 'You cannot take these flowers,' said Zoran. 'They belong to the government.

What a precious treasure God has committed into our hands in that he has given us the Bible. How little do most persons consider how much they enjoy in that they have the possession of that holy book. ... What an excellent book is this, and how far exceeding all human writings.... He that has a Bible, and don't observe what is contained [in] it, is like a man that has a box full of silver and gold, and don't know it.

No one wants to share their man, after all," continued Knight calmly when Jenna's scream subsided. "Even if the person they're sharing with is themselves. So now that he's all yours, Jenna, how about it?

So if you were hoarding something worthless, it would be a slap on the wrist," said Megan. "But since they found out you were hoarding something of incredible value, you're screwed.

Take possession of the land the LORD your God is giving you for your own" (Joshua 1:11). It is God's to give! It is ours to possess!

People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.

To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.

This is my child, this is my wealth: such thoughts are the preoccupations of fools. If we are unable to own even ourselves, why make such claims?

That's the whole meaning of life, isn't it? Trying to find a place for your stuff.

But the moment a bird was dead, no matter how beautiful it had been in life, the pleasure of possession became blunted for me.

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.

The greatest satisfaction, I think, is when a building opens and the public possesses it and you cut the umbilical cord and you see it taking on its own life. There's no greater satisfaction.

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.

Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath.

Most men indeed as well as most sects in Religion, think themselves in possession of all truth, and that wherever others differ from them it is so far error.

A god in the hand is worth two on Olympus.

All guns are the same to me—dark brown or black." He pointed to the sight again. "No," she said. "I have never seen a gun like that in his possession." She pointed dramatically to the sight.

He found it peculiar the way these adventurers thought anything they found was "rightfully" theirs. Why couldn't they come out and admit they were stealing from the monsters?

Henry David Thoreau, by no means the most conventional man of his time, lamented on his death bed, "What demon possessed me that I behaved so well." He would have taken comfort in Holy Fools. They remind us of a deeper sanity that is sometimes hidden beneath apparent lunacy: the treasure of a God-centered life.

In life's journey, the things we keep we eventually lose, while the things we give away, we always have.

Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of marijuana in private for personal use... Therefore, I support legislation amending Federal law to eliminate all Federal criminal penalties for the possession of up to one ounce [28g] of marijuana.

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.