Quotes About Possession

When we play with three at the back, we need active players, who tie up the opposition and play passes forward.

I own over four ties.

He's mine. I love him, and you can't have him, Christine. You can't have them both.

I'm a new man, Giovanni. If you want to imitate me, you'll have to abandon the mask and get a face like this one." Erik smiled mirthlessly at his young nemesis, his teeth shining madly in the dim light of piazza. "You can't have her! She loves me. The mask won't do. You could never giver what she wants, because she wants me!" Giovanni tried to follow Meg and Roul, but each time he shifted Erik was there.

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

The glory that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

The renown that riches and beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

He tratado de entregarte, para que tú lo retuvieras en tu puño, para que lo acogieras en tu pecho, junto a tu corazón desfalleciente, el significado de un instante: el instante en el que por la amplitud de mi deseo, supe que eras mía.

For what is worth in anythingBut so much money as 'twill bring?

I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession

Fire, slavery, cloth, coin, and stone - these are the basis of civilized life. Sometimes it happens that one or another of them gets hopelessly involved in the most basic appetites of a woman or a man. There are people I have met in my travels who cannot eat food unless it has been held long over fire; and there are others, like me, who cannot love without some mark of possession. Both, no doubt, seem squally strange and incomprehensible to you, 'ey, barbarian?

When we shall come home and enter to the possession of our Brother's fair kingdom, and when our heads shall find the weight of the eternal crown of glory, and when we shall look back to pains and sufferings; then shall we see life and sorrow to be less than one step or stride from a prison to glory; and that our little inch of time-suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome home to heaven.

I rather wish Him my heart than give Him it; except He take it and put Himself in possession of it (for I hope He hath a market-right to me, since He hath ransomed me), I see not how Christ can have me. O, that He would be pleased to be more homely with my soul's love, and to come in to my soul and take His own.

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.

The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

Extraordinary beauty can be a curse to the one who possesses it. one pays a dear price for fame and fortune

I wasn't possessed—I was insane!

No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed.

No one worth possessing can quite be possessed

No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed; Lay that on your heart, My young angry dear; This truth, this hard and precious stone, Lay it on your hot cheek, Let it hide your tear. Hold it like a crystal When you are alone And gaze in the depths of the icy stone. Long, look long and you will be blessed: No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed.

Once upon a time men were possessed by devils. Now they are not less obsessed by ideas

The Atlas belongs to the Lenbachhaus in Munich - it's long since ceased to belong to me. Occasionally I run across it somewhere, and I think it's interesting because it looks different each time.