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Quotes About Possession

He had a good healthy sense of meum, and as little of tuum as he could help.
~ Joseph Conrad
E piciorul meu. - Ba nu e deloc piciorul tau! replica sora Cramer. Acest picior apartine guvernului SUA.
~ Joseph Heller
Ba nu e deloc piciorul tau! replica sora Cramer.Acest picior apartine guvernului SUA.
~ Joseph Heller
Once you own things you have to be afraid of them. Of losing them.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
While you have a thing it can be taken from you…..but when you give it, you have given it. no robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.
~ Joyce James
My scent's all over you. It's inside of you. That's how my people will know who your mate is. It's also a warning.
~ jr ward
He smiled. 'Now I have you in a cage.And whenever I want you,I'll take you out, and when I've done with you, I'll set you back in.
~ Judith Rossner
This early piece of the morning is mine.
~ Wallace Stegner
People always covet what they themselves do not possess.
~ Walter Moers
El dogmático cree que vale por lo que tiene, por su patrimonio moral, religioso, político, científico o ideológico, y que esa posesión lo asciende por encima de los demás mortales.
~ Walter Riso
I must first have the sense of God's possession of me before I can have the sense of His presence with me.
~ Watchman Nee
Sarah also compared a Louisiana law that said everything possessed by a slave belonged to his master with a law that said, "A woman's personal property by marriage becomes absolutely her husband's which, at his death, he may leave entirely from her.
~ Wendy McElroy
Everything we have is not ours. And it will be inherited by another for a short time."
~ Wesley D'Amico
Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.
~ Wilhelm von Humboldt
Companionship was at the top of Epicurus's list of life's pleasures. He wrote, 'Of all the things that wisdom provides to help one live one's entire life in happiness, the greatest by far is the possession of friendship.
~ Daniel Klein
Appena un libro finisce nelle nostre mani, è nostro, proprio come dicono i bambini: - È il mio libro - ... parte integrante di me stesso. E forse questa la ragione per cui così difficilmente restituiamo i libri che ci vengono prestati. Non esattamente un furto... (no, no, non siamo dei ladri; no...), diciamo, un passaggio di proprietà, o meglio, un trasferimento di sostanza.
~ Daniel Pennac
Few objects awaken as much as the book the feeling of absolute property. Fallen in our hands, the books become our slaves.
~ Daniel Pennac
The owner doesn't ask questions about where the painting has been. He's just happy to have it hanging on his wall again.
~ Daniel Silva
You know the old Russian proverb, Allon. What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine.
~ Daniel Silva
Two Montreals, two realities, thought Jacqueline as they walked back to the hotel. In one reality they had just gone shopping. In the other Tariq had spent an hour checking to see if he was being followed, and Tariq had taken possession of his gun.
~ Daniel Silva
Otela mi je, Igore brate, moju sebi?nost, moje remekdelo!
~ Danilo Kiš
To own is to fear.
~ Danish Proverb
Love hath so long possessed me for his ownAnd made his lordship so familiar.
~ Dante Alighieri
I couldn't be fonder of you if you were my own son. But, well, if you lose a son, its possible to get another. There's only one Maltese Falcon.
~ Dashiell Hammett