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Quotes About Possession

Humans metabolize their purchases very quickly, even if it seemed worth it for any number of reasons when you first bought it. After some time passes, people will go back to feeling the baseline feelings they had previously felt about themselves, no matter how shiny the object, the hair, or the experience.
~ Debbie Millman
Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen.
~ Imelda Marcos
The Diary of Samuel Sewall,' 'The Diary of John Winthrop,' these are easy for anyone to get their hands on. This was really common stuff and there's tons of cases of demon possession.
~ Robert Eggers
They say I spend too much money, so they take it and put it away for me. What do I spend it on? Oh, old records and presents and things.
~ Tiny Tim
When I was a boy, I took over the shed at the bottom of the garden and displayed fossils and potsherds and coins in it and proudly called it my 'museum'. I charged people to come in, and my most prized possession was a Saracen shield dating from the Crusades.
~ Kevin Crossley-Holland
A professional's racket is such a personal thing, and it's the tool of your trade.
~ Tim Henman
Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
~ Dick Gregory
Yeah, but I'm the baby of Fleetwood Mac. Ha, I'm 33 years old, a very old baby, but it's hard for them to watch me walk away and do anything. Because everybody in Fleetwood Mac, including me, is possessive, jealous. It causes us a lot of grief, but at the same time it's never boring. I research Fleetwood Mac all the time in my head and try to figure us out. But I can't. It's a strange grouping of people.
~ Sean Egan
Whoever said you can't buy happiness has never been shopping.
~ Sean Keogh
To be alone, but to be pierced through with a kingly joy, now and then, as I believe I am, is a great possession indeed.
~ Sebastian Barry
If you can own nothing, he owned it.
~ Sebastian Barry
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains. Never was this truth more plain than during the recent attacks at Netherfield Park, in which a household of eighteen was slaughtered and consumed by a horde of the living dead..
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
The Catholic Church created strict guidelines for the rite of exorcism back in 1614—guidelines that have remained largely unchanged in 400 years. However, one notable amendment came in 1952, when priests were warned not to confuse mental illness with demonic possession
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
In their possession of Ireland the Firbolgs were disturbed by the descents and depredations of African sea-rovers, the Fomorians, who had a main stronghold on Tory Island, off the Northwest Coast. But
~ Seumas MacManus
But the possession of the country was wrested from the Firbolgs, and they were forced into partial serfdom by the Tuatha De Danann (people of the goddess Dana), who arrived later. Totally
~ Seumas MacManus
Does it look to you like she's got a 'my precioussss' thing going on with something in that pocket?" I asked him.
~ Shanna Swendson
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a thirty-something woman in possession of a satisfying career and fabulous hairdo must be in want of very little
~ Shannon Hale
It was my jewelry!" Briar shouted after his father because he'd forgotten to ask what was stolen.
~ Shannon Hale
Get that Property Of Whitford Public Library stamp and stamp it right on his forehead. Then cross out the library's name and write yours
~ Shannon Stacey
So much had become so connected to him that it seemed to belong to him, so that now, flying, for hours, above the Atlantic still felt like being over his realm.
~ Sharon Olds
Uh…tell me, Mace. Have you actually let her in on the fact she's yours now?" "No. But I will. She'll simply have to deal with it." Smitty sighed. "So says the King of the Jungle.
~ Shelly Laurenston
Give her to me." Turning away with his prize, Lock shook his head. "No. Get your own cat." "She's my sister.
~ Shelly Laurenston
Oh, come on, Jess!" May begged. "Just let me sit in it." "No! It's mine!" Jess rested her head against Lock's shoulder. "All mine. My throne of power. By this chair I rule.
~ Shelly Laurenston