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Quotes About Possessions

Buy what thou hast no Need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy Necessaries.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Buy what thou has no need of and ere long thou shall sell thy necessaries.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I am what I want. What I seek to consume, possess, and achieve is a mirror that reflects my lusts and cravings, values and priorities, and moral boundaries or lack thereof.
~ Jane Velez-Mitchell
The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England.
~ Peter Stuyvesant
Boys, they can't take my refrigerator now. They'll never get my car now. I paid cash for 'em and they're mine, and I'm keepin' 'em!
~ Patsy Cline
A denial of the reality of demonical possessions on the part of anyone who believes the Gospel narrative to be true and inspired may justly be regarded as simply and plainly inconceivable.
~ Edward McKendree Bounds
I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.
~ David Livingstone
I'm not a hoarder, I'm a collector: if you have something you like, every time you see it, you have a little happy hit.
~ Douglas Coupland
I might have companies, I might have buildings, I might have art. But money? No, I'm not holding that.
~ Damon Dash
I own three homes. I drive a Jeep. I'm cool with that.
~ Edge
Many people have beautiful homes and beautiful things, but other people haven't ever seen them. So why have them?
~ Mohamed Hadid
If you have seven homes, every room is not a beautifully curated expression of your personality.
~ Jesse Armstrong
We've accumulated a lot of things over the years and many things from our grandmother. Hopefully it'll be all right. I really don't want to cry, but I can't help it.
~ Dorothy Fields
I got a bit enamoured with bigger houses and things like that.
~ John Hewson
I've just started to get really envious when I go into people's houses and see books on a shelf.
~ Rebecca Hall
What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I'm a huge fan of e-books, but the more I buy and download, the more I worry that someone could just take them all away from me.
~ Warren Spector
I believe that everyone collects. I think collecting is in our blood as humans.
~ Lynda Resnick
With all the hundreds of dresses and shoes I have, it would be an absolute crime if I don't have a little girl. I have a whole room at home filled with my stage wear.
~ Katherine Jenkins
The actual stuff my family owned, those boxes under my stairs, I can't quite bear to look at. I like other people's things better. They come with other people's history.
~ Gillian Flynn
he looked as a man might look who owned the whole world, the whole
~ Graham Greene
The worldly stuff is not always going to be there and it could be taken away at any moment.
~ Rich Froning Jr.
I'm a pack rat. There's only a couple pairs of tights I've worn throughout my career that I don't have. I save everything.
~ Jeff Jarrett
Every single person around the world has this storage facility in their bedroom, and we call it a closet, and 80 percent of the stuff in that storage facility is worn three times or less in its lifetime.
~ Jennifer Hyman