Possession Quotes · Page 12

I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.

— Nancy Grace

I do not want to be a relative and passive being, anywhere. I want to live and love and write.

— A. S. Byatt

“I think I possess because I do not try to give, Trying to give, I see that I have nothing.”

— René Daumal

I must first have the sense of God's possession of me before I can have the sense of His presence with me.

— Watchman Nee

We are a possession of the United States. Congress has full authorization power over Puerto Rico.

— Ricardo Rossello

She might be unarmed, but Rose Hathaway was in possession of many weapons.

— Richelle Mead

O! what a prodigal have I been of that most valuable of all possessions Time!

— Theresa Villiers

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

— Alexander Smith

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life,…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Misfortune sprinkles ashes on the head of the man, but falls like dew on the heart of the woman, and brings forth…

— Anna Cora Mowatt

It is not his possession of knowledge, of irrefutable truth, that makes the man of science, but his persistent and recklessly critical…

— Karl Popper

Our greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin.

— John Cudahy

The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society…

— Elizabeth Janeway

In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against…

— Mahatma Gandhi

...we feel that our honor and safety require that Ft. Sumter should be in our possession at the very earliest moment.

— Francis Wilkinson Pickens

Our material possessions, like our joys, are enhanced in value by being shared. Hoarded and unimproved property can only afford satisfaction to…

— George D. Prentice

Some things are up to us [eph' hêmin] and some things are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us,…

— Epictetus

Adults don't know how to respect and really love their young ones. Often love is confused with possession. You say "this is…

— Dacia Maraini

We need examples of people who, leaving Heaven to decide whether they are to rise in the world, decide for themselves that…

— John Ruskin

He has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm…

— Henry Waxman

Sex endows the individual with a dumb and powerful instinct, which carries his body and soul continually towards another, makes it one…

— George Santayana

You see, even though back then Barack was a senator and a presidential candidate, to me, he was still the guy who'd…

— Michelle Obama

The world would have you believe that you are of worth only if you have money, a certain physical appearance, stylish clothes,…

— Elaine L. Jack

“Sudden emotional and physical shocks, bouts of depression, and fear and anxiety make a person vulnerable to possession by ripping tears in…

— Rosemary Ellen Guiley

“Jesus expressed intense anger toward those who where immoral, such as the self-righteous Pharisees, but he never suggested that they were demonized.…

— Gregory A. Boyd

Auntie Phyl's last months in the care home were extra pieces. Age is unnecessary. Some of us, like my mother, are fortunate…

— Margaret Drabble

How can we recognize if we're falling into materialism's trap? Christ's words were direct and profound: "Where your treasure is, there your…

— Randy Alcorn

A woman wanted to know how to deal with anger. I asked when anger arose whose anger it was. She said it…

— Ajahn Chah

Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers, as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer. Culture…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you read Marx (or Jesus) this way, you come to see that real wealth is not material wealth and real poverty…

— Grace Lee Boggs

Fasts and vigils, the study of Scripture, renouncing possessions and everything worldly are not in themselves perfection, as we have said; theyare…

— John Cassian

If I have put the case of science at all correctly, the reader will have recognised that modern science does much more…

— Karl Pearson

Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.

— Dick Gregory

We should travel light and live simply. Our enemy is not possessions but excess.

— John Stott

I was given a Roberts digital radio by my mum and dad. I think it's my favorite possession.

— Charlotte Ritchie

To take possession of a city of which you are not a native you must first fall in love there.

— John Banville

Guard your integrity as if it's your most precious leadership possession, because that is what it is.

— David Cottrell

He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983.

— Sandy Berger

I like to have possession and build up play from the back. That's something I pride myself on.

— Alex Greenwood

“Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.”

— John Ruskin