Quotes About Possession

What I desire, thou dost not possess for thyself. How canst thou render it then to another?

My brother, being an English gentleman, possesses a library in all his houses, though he never opens a book. This is called fidelity to ancient tradition.

It was the room of a woman without taste or moderation, who refused nothing and surrendered nothing, to whom the fact of possession had become the one steadfast reality in a world of loss and change.

What was the self-sacrifice? I jettisoned half of a much-loved and I think irreplaceable pair of shoes. Why was that self-sacrifice? Because they were mine! said Ford, crossly. I think we have different value systems. Well mine's better.

I wonder who this ship belongs to anyway, said Arthur. Me, said Zaphod. No. Who it really belongs to. Really me, insisted Zaphod. Look, property is theft, right? Therefore theft is property. Therefore this ship is mine, okay?

Is that robot yours?" he said. "No," came a thin metallic voice from the crater, "I'm mine.

But naturally my shoulder, sir,' mooed the animal contentedly, 'nobody else's is mine to offer.

No government owns it," snapped the robot, "it's been stolen.

I'd sooner have died than admit that the most valuable thing I owned was a fairly extensive collection of German industrial music dance mix EP records stored for even further embarrassment under a box of crumbling Christmas tree ornaments in a Portland, Oregon basement. So I told him I owned nothing of any value.

Collecting and hoarding seem to be about the loss of others, while philanthropy and de-accessioning are more about the impending loss of self. (Whoever dies with the most toys actually loses.)

The best way to not think of something is to possess it fully, and then cultivate indifference.

It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.

A man doesn't want to feel that a woman cares more for him than he cares for her. He doesn't want to feel owned, body and soul. It's that damned possessive attitude. This man is mine---he belongs to me! He wants to get away --- to get free. He wants to own his woman; he doesn't want her to own him.(Simon Boyle)

Inside, it was clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.

Beauty is perhaps a dangerous possession,' I said.

People who don't have a certain thing will tend to see it in one of two ways: as something that they absolutely must have or something that no one should ever have

This is My House but this is not Me. What is Mine cannot be Me. Then how can my Body be Me? It is Mine, but it is not Me.

If money can't buy happiness, then I guess I'll have to rent it.

A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot." [ Baffled at a Bookcase ( London Review of Books , Vol. 33 No. 15, 28 July 2011)]

All of the Lord Jesus Christ is mine at the moment of conversion, but I possess only as much of Him as by faith I claim.

Football is actually pretty limited and there are only really four phases: When you have the ball yourself, when the opponent has the ball and when you win the ball or lose the ball. That is football, really, there isn't more to it.

You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired.

Here's the thing about Apple technology: once you own a piece, you want to use it.

My pistols, however, I always kept by me.