Quotes About Possession

Life isn't our possession, something we own. We're alive as we receive life from God, as the gift of his grace and mercy.

his character was dreadfully vicious, for that the possession of irresistible powers of seduction, rendered his licentious habits more dangerous to society.

It's not that they were worth anything. But they were mine.

Perhaps what should make you feel better is the thought I would kill you, that I'm obsessed with you enough to do that. I'd rather you not live than that you live apart from me.

There was the feeling, too, that she no longer belonged – that she had become a stranger in another people's world. It had all altered so much; first changing into a place that it was difficult to understand, then growing so much more complex that one gave up trying to understand. No wonder, she thought, that the old become possessive about things; cling to objects which link them with the world that they could understand…

The dead belonged to her as no one living could have done.

The soul that is yielded to Christ becomes His own fortress, which He holds in a revolted world, and He intends that no authority shall be known in it except His own. A soul thus kept in possession by the heavenly agencies is impregnable to the assaults of Satan.

For six thousand years, Satan has struggled to maintain possession of the earth. Now God's original purpose in its creation is accomplished.

Glancing round the spacious library, where the handsome sets of books were never taken out of the formidable modern yet still Jacobean bookcases, he sighed regretfully because possessions, like the spirit of the possessor, are not incorruptible.

I have had just about enough of other guys trying to turn you, Raven. There is only one vampire who will," he said confidently. "The one who you were always meant for-me.

I have bought a house, but not possessedit." She was quite sure that the look in her eyes rivaled that of any light skirts on the streets of London. "And I am sold, but not yet enjoyed.

He smelled like the soap she bought for guests. It made her happy, as if she owned a small part of him. As if she had changed him.

As a result, I'm probably the only British musician of the sixties who went to work on the Reeperbahn and came back still in possession of his virginity

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

I very much like this one :" For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything..For us who do it is merely an illusion..

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Te amo, Sandokan; te amo como nunca mujer alguna amó sobre la tierra! Sandokan la acarició dulcemente y sus labios besaron los dorados cabellos y la nívea frente de la joven. -¡Ay de quien te toque ahora, que ya eres mía!

As an end and finality of life love has its deeper meaning, for it sinks below the surfaces of casual emotion, of feeling, of happiness, to profound realities. Beyond possession, and personality and play--not against them--love penetrates to realms that intuition finds ultimately real. It seeks identity with being; it wants divine approach.

She seemed to listen to life as though life were the most cunning and charming of confidence men: knowing perfectly well that she was being conned, she, nevertheless, again and again, gave the man the money for the Brooklyn Bridge. She never gained possession of the bridge, of course, but she certainly learned how to laugh. And the tiny lines in her face had been produced as much by laughter as by loss.

We are not yet in possession of anything deserving the name of political science ... the intrinsic difficulties of creating one are almost insurmountable; and ... in most cases those who attempt the task employ methods essentially arbitrary, and predestined from the beginning to be unfruitful.

To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

The dark glee, the savage ferocity aroused by the possession of a few water-white pebbles, set me shuddering. I was dumb with amazement.

Una specie di reazione chimica su cui non ho nessun controllo. Posso solo stare a guardare. Entra in circolazione con il sangue e in meno di due ore ha preso possesso di me. L'attesa invade completamente l'atmosfera dell'appartamento. Sono ricoperta da una membrana in cui né televisione, né telefonate di amici, né bagni caldi né libri possono fare breccia. Non riesco a vedere più niente. I pensieri più assurdi mi possiedono, come spiriti maligni.