Possession Quotes

1254 Possession quotes by 873 unique authors

The oppressors do not perceive their monopoly on having more as a privilege which dehumanizes others and themselves. They cannot see that, in the egoistic… — Paulo Freire
Every relationship has at least one really good day. What I mean is, no matter how sour things go, there's always that day. That day… — Charles Baxter
We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent. — Friedrich Nietzsche
When you live alone, your furnishings, your possessions, are always confronting you with the thinness of your existence. — ZoÃ« Heller
The search for truth is more precious than its possession. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
[Man] is the only animal who lives outside of himself, whose drive is in external thingsâ€”property, houses, money, concepts of power. He lives in his… — John Steinbeck
In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
By all means continue destroying my possessions. I daresay I have too many. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions. — Frank Lloyd Wright
All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add, because that frenzy of mutual possession might… — Vladimir Nabokov
If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would… — Daniel Webster
Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate. — Alberto Manguel
This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected--in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness;… — Thomas Mann
When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias!… — Unknown Author
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a thirty-something woman in possession of a satisfying career and fabulous hairdo must be in want of very… — Shannon Hale
He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperment. I have never seen, myself, why the possession… — Agatha Christie
A truce to philosophy!â€”Life is before me, and I rush into possession. Hope, glory, love, and blameless ambition are my guides, and my soul knows… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference… — Patrick Henry
The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching… — Alan Paton
Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart - I have… — Tennessee Williams

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