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Quotes About Possession

Would I buy this today, at this price?" If not, you may not want to own it any longer.
~ Gary Belsky
People tend to overvalue what belongs to them relative to the value they would place on the same possession or circumstance if it belonged to someone else.
~ Gary Belsky
To know things, for us to know things, is bad for them. We get to wanting and when we get to wanting it's bad for them. They thinks we want what they got . . . . That's why they don't want us reading.
~ Gary Paulsen
When a woman has seen me, as you have, she belongs to me. She loves me forever.
~ Gaston Leroux
you will not be master of my body & my property
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
is—it is necessary to come first to an understanding concerning knowledge, which is looked upon as the instrument by which to take possession of the Absolute, or as the means through which to get a sight of it.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love .
~ George Eliot
I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.
~ George Eliot
Let the music which can take the possession of our frame and fill the air with joy for us, sound once more - what does it signify that we heard it found fault with in its absence?
~ George Eliot
Caleb was in a difficulty known to any person attempting in dark times and unassisted by miracle to reason with rustics who are in possession of an undeniable truth which they know through a hard process of feeling, and can let it fall like a giant's club on your neatly carved argument for a social benefit which they do not feel.
~ George Eliot
Caleb was in a difficulty known to any person attempting in dark times and unassisted by miracle to reason with rustics who are in possession of an undeniable truth which they know through a hard process of feeling, and can let it fall like a giant's club on your neatly-carved argument for a social benefit which they do not feel.
~ George Eliot
She had a confused, dreamy notion that, if the creditors were all paid, her plate and linen ought to come back to her; but she had an inbred perception that while people owed money they were unable to pay, they couldn't rightly call anything their own.
~ George Eliot
While I've won five Junos, I've donated four of them to the National Archives in Ottawa. Which left my fifth Juno sitting, seemingly abandoned by its four family members, on my bookcase in my dining room.
~ Dan Hill
To be possessed when you are a child is just a wonderful feeling. It makes you feel safe. It makes you feel loved. But later if anyone tried to possess me - oh boy, I was out of there.
~ Ava Gardner
That's a wonderful thing, to take possession of the role that you're playing.
~ Helene Yorke
No one can come and claim ownership of my work. I am the creator of it, and it lives within me.
~ Prince
Guys aren't threatening. Other girls are the competition. You are usually what they're fighting over.
~ Jonathan Bennett
The most important thing about being on a football pitch is having options. That's what makes players look good. If you get the ball in possession and you look up and you've got three or four options, it's so much easier just having one or maybe two.
~ Matt Le Tissier
Sometimes I wonder if people really want my smelly old shoes, but some people seem quite thrilled by them. So I'm like, OK, well, this is something you can't buy, so there you go.
~ Francesca Hayward
A lot of the things I hold onto have memories attached to them. Bags, shoes and jewelry that were given to me from photo shoots and fashion shows throughout my career.
~ Kimora Lee Simmons
I can't throw books away. My wife is always telling me to get rid of some.
~ Matthew Macfadyen
After I saw 'The Exorcist' it took me a while before I could fall asleep - that girl's head turning around and throwing up all that pea soup!
~ Bushwick Bill
With Bayern, we want a lot of ball possession and to control the play, so I operate sometimes like the 11th outfield player. Thus I am included a lot into the build-up play and have a lot of touches of the ball.
~ Manuel Neuer
As human beings we have a tendency when we like something to tie it up and make sure it's there for a long time. I've been working on being able to let things go. I don't think I ever want to buy property again.
~ Ricky Williams