Quotes About Possession

Class does not mean huge possession of money. Mother Teresa was a classy woman. So is Manjula Bhargava, a great mathematician of Indian origin. The concept that you automatically gain class by acquiring money is an outdated thought process.

I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eyes and focused my thoughts. Presently, this book is my prized possession.

Sudden emotional and physical shocks, bouts of depression, and fear and anxiety make a person vulnerable to possession by ripping tears in his or her barrier of spiritual protection (the aura). The djinn, having no defined form, can slip through these tears and cracks quite easily. It is believed that a person should never go to bed crying or with feelings of fear and worry, as this invites the djinn to attack during sleep.

I am afraid of losing what I have already valued.

Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

It is in our biology, this reptilian feeling of wanting what the next guy has.

The wish to gain complete possession of somebody is expressed most plainly by jealousy. Jealousy is never a sign of love. It only indicates fear of not being able to hold another person.

A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition

Be occupied, then, with what you really value and let the thief take something else.

Borrowed books and umbrellas are seldom returned

a basic component of individual rights is the right to own property.

The development of contemporary consumer societies has had a profound effect on the way we view the world. Stated most simply, we have come to regard an increasing profusion of both natural and human-produced things as objects to be desired, acquired, savored, and possessed.

Collecting, especially of the classifying sort epitomized by stamp collecting, offered a means to seem to gain control of the world and of the past.

Collectors tend to feel attached to their collections in ways that may seem irrational if viewed in terms of the normal functions of the things collected.

Objects in our possession literally can extend self, as when a tool or weapon allows us to do things of which we would otherwise be incapable. Possessions can also symbolically extend self, as when a uniform or trophy allows us to convince ourselves (and perhaps others) that we can be a different person than we would be without them.

Quid nomen tibi est? She was not about to offer her name up to a stranger. It was almost the only thing she possessed that nobody had stolen.

This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.

If I am seen as a butch, or a man, I am now—to some minds—walking with someone who is under my protection and who is in my possession. Whatever critiques of gender and culture apply to that assumption, and they are numerous as the grains of sand, they do not always assert themselves in the walkaday world.

I'll always want you," he whispered urgently against her lips. "You're mine now, okay. Only mine.

Deuce take it, he was in over his head. But it didn't matter. He'd ruined her, and marriage was the only way to fix that. "Oliver?" she whispered. He stared down at her delicate features, flushed from their exertions, and felt the same swell of possessiveness that had made him claim her with all the subtlety of an ox. Mine…mine…mine. The words still rang in his ears. Definitely in over his head.

But this one, my dear, is for me.

A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.

Remember, nothing belongs to you but your flesh and blood—and nothing else is under your control.

hold every hour in your grasp. Lay hold of to-day's task, and you will not need to depend so much upon to-morrow's. While we are postponing, life speeds by. Nothing, Lucilius, is ours, except time. We were entrusted by nature with the ownership of this single thing, so fleeting and slippery that anyone who will can oust us from possession.