Possession Quotes

1254 Possession quotes by 873 unique authors

Travel compels you to discover your spiritual side by elimination: Without all the rituals, routines and possessions that give your life meaning at home, you're… — Rolf Potts
When you read Marx (or Jesus) this way, you come to see that real wealth is not material wealth and real poverty is not just… — Grace Lee Boggs
Today it is not a matter of â€˜conservingâ€™ the present or returning to a recent past that has failed, but rather of regaining possession of… — Guillaume Faye
I donâ€™t think there is any mystery to understanding the passionate feelings people have for guns. Nobody really believes itâ€™s about maintaining a militia. Itâ€™s… — Alec Wilkinson
Reading, because we control it, is adaptable to our needs and rhythms. We are free to indulge our subjective associative impulse; the term I coin… — Sven Birkerts
In the West many Christians have an abundance of material possessions, yet they live in a backslidden state. — Brother Yun
I can't even drive a car. I don't have a driver's license. I have a rented apartment in New York. That's it. When I travel,… — Lady Gaga
Power is not a material possession that can be given, it is the ability to act. Power must be taken, it is never given. — William Powell
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
I don't know much about football but everyone seems to say that it is all about possession. — Julie Harris
I like the idea of making films about ostensibly absolutely nothing. I like the irrelevant, the tangential, the sidebar excursion to nowhere that suddenly becomes… — Jean-Luc Godard
Watching too much TV can triple our hunger for more possessions, while reducing our personal contentment by about 5 percent for every hour a day… — David Niven
Hawks favor war on the grounds that Saddam Hussein is reckless, tyrannical and instinctively aggressive, and that if he comes into possession of nuclear weapons… — Charles Krauthammer
Some parents place undue priority on temporal and material possessions. Some are far less diligent in their efforts to immerse their children in the gospel… — Quentin L. Cook
From Maya Angelou I began to believe that I, too, someday, could be a writer, and I also learned how tortuous it can be to… — Dirk Benedict
OTHERBOUND is a web of spells and counterspells, but Corinne Duyvis never loses sight of the bodies, minds and all-too-human emotions that absorb the impact… — Margo Lanagan
The Americans speak so much about freedom in their sermons. Freedom as a possession is a doubtful thing for a church; freedom must be won… — Eric Metaxas
I later discovered that in order to be a good athlete one must care intensely what is happening with a ball, even if one doesn't… — Haven Kimmel
The world's most 'primitive' people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it… — Marshall Sahlins
Moshe Sluhovsky's fascinating study links spirit possession, exorcism, and mystical practice in early modern Europe. Women and men, healers and priestly exorcisers are caught up… — Natalie Zemon Davis

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