Quotes About Possession

We have chosen a stillness more powerful than all activity. A detachment more fulfilling than all possession, A wisdom exceeding all knowledge And a love beyond all.

You can only possess beauty through understanding it.

Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in them.

She was a riddle, who mysteriously possessed her own solution, a secret, and what are all diplomats' secrets compared with this, an enigma, and what in all the world is so beautiful as the word that solves it?

to him who has the ring, the spirit of the ring is obedient, whether he be Noureddin or Aladdin, and he who has the world's treasure, has it, however he got it.

She'd never shaken off the feeling of being damaged by her ignorance of Love, of what it might be like to be wholly possessed by the archetypal, capitalized djinn, the yearning towards, the blurring of the boundaries of the self, the unbuttoning, until you were open from your adam's-apple to your crotch: just words, because she didn't know the thing.

There is a thing that lives in us, eating our food, breathing our air, looking out through our eyes, and when it comes out to play nobody is immune; possessed, we turn murderously upon one another, thing-darkness in our eyes and real weapons in our hands, neighbour against thing-ridden neighbour, thing-driven cousin against cousin, brother-thing against brother-thing, thing-child against thing-child.

collections are amusing only in the making; afterwards they are like sporting prints without the sport. The sons of collectors inherit only the corpse of their fathers' satisfied passion.

There are two basic situations in volleyball - either you got the ball or you don't.

The spirit of property doubles a man's strength.

For me success was always going to be a Lamborghini. But now I've got it, it just sits on my drive.

The possession of a perfect knowledge of your business is an absolute necessity in order to insure success.

We are concerned with things. We are concerned with success. We are concerned with money. We are concerned with instrumentalities.

Some people's measure of success is how much they can grab hold of and hold on to.

To wait at Monte Cristo for the purpose of watching like a dragon over the almost incalculable richs that had thus fallen into his possession satisfied not the cravings of his heart, which yearned to return to dwell among mankind, and to assume the rank, power, and influence which are always accorded to wealth — that first and greatest of all the forces within the grasp of man.

I have lost all that bound me to life; now death smiles on me as a nurse smiles on the child she is about to rock to sleep; now welcome death!" No sooner had this idea taken possession of the unhappy young man than he became more calm and resigned;

Avoir commis, pour te posséder, rapt, violence et adultère, et, pour te conserver, hésiter devant un nouveau crime ?... perdre mon âme pour si peu ? Satan en rirait ; tu es folle ... Non ... non, tu es à moi comme l'homme est au malheur ....

Albert seized it and put it victoriously into his buttonhole

In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon, which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner terrible, often makes him feared.

Now I know of only two methods of establishing equality in the political world; every citizen must be put in possession of his rights, or rights must be granted to no one.

Although the vast country which we have been describing was inhabited by many indigenous tribes, it may justly be said at the time of its discovery by Europeans to have formed one great desert. The Indians occupied without possessing it.

Once you possess something others do not, you are a target for the wicked.

Demons were said to be cruel, but a demon would never have been so brutal as this. A demon merely called you by name, threw his arms around you, whispered his plight, understood yours, then took you for his own.

There was a spark inside that holiest of holy places that made people want to possess it, and what men yearn for they often destroy.