Possession Quotes · Page 17

An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.

— Juvenal

Resolve to treat the things in your possession as belonging to others.

— Saint Basil

If one's reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.

— Arthur Ashe

Wars are the hobbies of half-informed children who have somehow come into possession of the levers of power.

— Fred Reed

The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.

— Anonymous

On every dishonest man, there are two watchmen, his possessions, and his way of living.

— Umar

“I want all of you. Even the parts you refuse to give anyone. Especially those parts.”

— Anonymous

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

— René Daumal

There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she…

— Marcel Proust

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

— William Hazlitt

I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of…

— George Bernard Shaw

Generosity is a lovely attribute, and we only practice it when relationships are more important to us than our possessions.

— Michael Wright

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

— Sallust

Earthly possessions are not what you came here to gather. Do not worry about your earthly possessions. Place your attention on your…

— Neale Donald Walsch

Children should Transcribe favourite Passages. A certain sense of possession and delight may be added to this exercise if children are allowed…

— Charlotte Mason

No person, possession, profession, or position ever fills the cup of a wounded, empty heart. It's an emptiness only God can fill.

— Lysa TerKeurst

FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The pronunciation of this…

— Ambrose Bierce

The art of war is at once comprehensive and complicated; ... it demands much previous study; and ... the possession of it,…

— George Washington

Sixteen of the thirty-eight parables of Jesus deal with money. One out of ten verses in the New Testament deals with that…

— Anonymous

The world has been created for everyone's use, but you few rich are trying to keep it up for yourselves. For not…

— Ambrose

What do you suppose makes all men look back to the time of childhood with so much regret (if their childhood has…

— John Ruskin

No matter how many possessions we acquire, they will not provide us with any lasting happiness and freedom. On the contrary, it…

— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

The past is our only real possession in life. It is the one piece of property of which time cannot deprive us;…

— Grace King

We call upon people everywhere to work for peace, to forget the quiet comfort of their homes, to leave behind their fears…

— Petra Kelly

Love is in the pleasure of possession, but in the Love of Allah there is no pleasure of possession, because the stations…

— Mansur Al-Hallaj

Auschwitz was one of the wealthiest places in the world. Everyone who was deported there had been in such a hurry that…

— Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

But, historians, and even common sense, may inform us, that, however specious these ideas of perfect equality may seem, they are really,…

— David Hume

Ultimate peace begins within; when we find peace within there will be no more conflict, no more occasion for war. If this…

— Peace Pilgrim

And with respect to the mode in which these general principles affect the secure possession of property, so far am I from…

— John Ruskin

We tend to think of consecration only as yielding up, when divinely directed, our material possessions. But ultimate consecration is the yielding…

— Neal A. Maxwell

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were…

— Eudora Welty

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- this critical basis I call the ideal of a…

— Albert Einstein

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

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

— A. S. Byatt

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

— Nancy Grace

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