Quote by Ted Bundy

Possessing them physically as one would possess a potted plant, a painting, or a Porsche. Owning, as it were, this individual.

— Ted Bundy

Possessions can possess you. Even a lawn can possess you. It makes you buy a garden hose. Which makes you water. Which cuts into…

— Orson Bean

The possession of a quantity of plants, however good the plants may be themselves and however ample their number, does not make a garden;…

— Gertrude Jekyll

Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner.

— Warren Buffett

Owning is owing, having is hoarding.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Possessing by letting go of things was a secret of ownership unknown to youth.

— Yukio Mishima

Possession properly has two faces, two aspects: we all have a right to private property, but this is accompanied by our responsibility for its…

— Fulton J. Sheen

To be able to dispense with good things is tantamount to possessing them.

— Jean-Francois Regnard

“Their possessions marked the progress of their life not in a pure volume of accumulation—which in itself was somewhat embarrassing, foolish-looking, potentially imprisoning (one…

— Jonathan Stone

It is a curious fact that personal possessions take on fictitious values and exceptional charms when the owner, no matter how generous, is faced…

— Marjorie Hillis

“One can fully own a manufactured thing—a toaster, say, or a pair of shoes. But in what reasonable sense can one fully "own" and…

— Carl Safina

It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.

— Aristotle