Possession Quotes · Page 27

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.

— David O. McKay

Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.

— Ben Jonson

Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.

— Benjamin Disraeli

In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents.

— Jose Mourinho

The kids competed for a full 32 minutes. We want the kids to compete on every possession.

— Eric Davis

When young, beware of fighting; when strong, beware of sex; and when old, beware of possession.

— Confucius

Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

— Henri Rousseau

“My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but the fewness of my wants.”

— Joseph Brotherton

A smattering of everything is worth little. It is a fallacy to suppose that an encyclopaedic knowledge is desirable. The mind is…

— Louis Agassiz

“Nothing, Lucilius, is ours, except time. We were entrusted by nature with the ownership of this single thing, so fleeting and slippery…

— Seneca

“No possession can surpass, or even equal a good library, to the lover of books. Here are treasured up for his daily…

— Anonymous

You can give of your talent, you can give of your possessions, or you can give of yourself. For God's sake, give…

— Cleveland Amory

[In my bio] is no drunk driving, there's no DUI's, there's no possession of cocaine, none of that stuff so you know,…

— Jeff Dunham

What a sense of possession, of confidence, it gave one to have pockets, to shove one's fists into them, as if in…

— Anita Desai

Love is manifested not only through the distribution of one's possessions, but even moreso through the spreading of the word of God…

— Maximus the Confessor

Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession -…

— Anonymous

It does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their religion, that we should…

— William James

A mother experiences more than one death, even though she herself will only die once. She fears for her husband; she fears…

— Saint John Chrysostom

If a chieftain or a man leave his house, garden, and field and hires it out, and some one else takes possession…

— Hammurabi

But I say to you, the Lord says, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, pray for those who…

— Maximus the Confessor

Every form of strength is also a form of weakness,” he once wrote. “Pretty girls tend to become insufferable because, being pretty,…

— Michael Lewis

I've had many more thousands of books in my possession than my shelves at home would indicate. At one time, I tried…

— Lewis Buzbee

To the world I may seem very poor, walking penniless and wearing or carrying in my pockets my only material possessions, but…

— Peace Pilgrim

We packed up all the worldly possessions we could carry with us and took the next flight to Hawaii from Washington. It…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

“How many husbands and wives,” Merrin uttered sadly, “must believe they have fallen out of love because their hearts no longer race…

— William Peter Blatty

“Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. If this seems so clearly the case…

— Judith Butler

Sad hours and glad hours, and all hours, pass over; One thing unshaken stays: Life, that hath Death for spouse, hath Chance…

— James Branch Cabell

The help of God does not come to us when we are indifferent. It comes to the man who is depending on…

— Alan Redpath

Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all…

— Walt Whitman

“We have possessed virtually nothing in our life in Italy. In England, I became increasingly sure that to possess something was to…

— Rachel Cusk

Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and…

— Eric Hoffer

“I think the idea that we have anything to begin with is a lie we tell ourselves every day until we believe…

— Trevor D. Richardson

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.

— Epicurus

“It produces them and makes no claim to the possession of them;”

— Laozi

When one great passion seizes possession of the soul all other feelings are crowded out.

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

Possession means nothing when the opponent takes its chances

— Franz Beckenbauer

If you spend a thing you can not have it. [Lat., Non tibi illud apparere si sumas potest.]

— Plautus

When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.

— Neal Stephenson

A willingness to share our possessions with one another is a very important aspect of true biblical community.

— Jerry Bridges

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

— Sophocles