Quotes About Possession

his yellow eyes gazed at me possessively -- I wondered if he realized that the way he looked at me was far more intimate than copping a feel could ever be.

What's yours is mine and what's mine is my own.

For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller cities to subjection.

One cannot give what he does not possess. To give love you must possess love. To love others you must love yourself.

I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

I love all of my shoes! It is a must to have them color coordinated, and to be able to see each and every one of them. I know exactly where each one lives and I can tell if one has even been moved!

Love is disgusting when you no longer possess yourself.

She is mine.' Edward's low voice was suddenly dark, not as composed as before. 'I didn't say I would fight fair.

If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it was, and always will be yours. If it never returns, it was never yours to begin with.

You can never love anyone to your own detriment. That is not love, that is possession, control, fear, or a combination of them all.

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.

Sometimes I don't understand how another can love her, is allowed to love her, since I love her so completely myself, so intensely, so fully, grasp nothing, know nothing, have nothing but her!

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

It's the chattering buzz of ideologically possessed demons.

It's no wonder that people will fight to protect something that saves them from being possessed by emotions of chaos and terror (and after that from degeneration into strife and combat).

An ideological theory explains everything: all the past, all the present, and all the future. This means that an ideologue can consider him or herself in possession of the complete truth (something forbidden to the self-consistent fundamentalist). There is no claim more totalitarian and no situation in which the worst excesses of pride are more likely to manifest themselves (and not only pride, but then deceit, once the ideology has failed to explain the world or predict its future).

Apresentou-se, tomou posse, reuniu a magra família e foi ao primeiro andar do Alvo agradecer. "Alguém muito elevado", contou; e dona Rozilda repetia as palavras rolando-as na língua, saborosas, enchia a boca com elas, tinham um gosto de poder.

May I break your even weave, loosen your knot, and if i break you are you mine?

I fear for my books.

The happy life does not mean loving what we possess, but possessing what we love." Possession of the beloved, St. Thomas holds, takes place in an act of cognition, in seeing, in intuition, in contemplation.