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Quotes About Possession

He has your finger, but I have your heart.
~ Brian Celio
Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
~ John Lennon
Whoever makes something, having bought or contracted for all other held resources used in the process... is entitled to it. The situation is not one of something's getting made, and there being an open question of who is to get it. Things come into the world already attached to people having entitlement over them.
~ Robert Nozick
I had an Indiana Jones fedora that I loved. I don't know what happened to it. I don't know where it went. Wish I had it back. Whoever's got it, you suck.
~ Nathan Fillion
Separation is very important to me. I don't strive to be a celebrity. My music has nothing to do with me at the end of the day. Once it's made and it's purchased, it belongs to whoever.
~ Vince Staples
I'm not very materialistic - I don't have a whole lot of stuff. But I do always like a pair of really weird socks.
~ Taylor Kinney
At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself should have joint possession of whatever had been peculiar to each of the different kinds of being.
~ Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Perhaps the great American Republic, whose interests lie in the Pacific and who has no hand in the spoliation of Africa, may someday dream of foreign possession.
~ Jose Rizal
I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have.
~ Mike Tyson
My parents always threw everything out, gave everything away. I'm surprised they never threw me away. That's why I've always kept my children's things. My parents had no feelings for belongings.
~ Spike Milligan
Why not play the most possessions you can play if you're the best defensively and offensively? Any time possessions are cut down, then a bad call, a missed shot then you have a chance to lose.
~ Mike D'Antoni
I have too many to count. Put it this way, I rival my wife with the amount of shoes she has in Jordans.
~ Erik Spoelstra
The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.
~ Bryant H. McGill
Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.
~ J. Paul Getty
No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.
~ William Cowper
Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.
~ Juan Ramón Jiménez
I become very territorial about my identity because it's been hijacked by so many people with their own projections.
~ Ruth Negga
Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
It can't be 'occupied territory' if the land is your own.
~ Reuven Rivlin
In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession.
~ Phyllis Schlafly
Before the State of Israel became a reality, Sinatra was a strong supporter, knowing that Jews were being denied access to the Holy Land. Sinatra met and had a friendship with Israel's first Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. Ben-Gurion gave Sinatra a beautiful Old Testament bible that was a proud possession that my father kept all his life.
~ Frank Sinatra Jr.
Fences sure are funny, aren't they, Papa?" "How so?" "Well, you be friends with Mr. Tanner and all. But we keep this fence up like it was war. I guess that humans are the only things on earth that take everything they own and fence it off.
~ Robert Newton Peck
A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses it is an idea that possesses the mind.
~ Robert Oxton Bolt
It is no exaggeration to say that the rich own most of what there is that is not nailed down.
~ Robert Paul Wolff