Possession Quotes
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I really think I want to live in a lot of places.I don't want possessions to hold me down.
Diana Ross -
They were lucky because they scored with their first free kick and that decides lots of things. In the second half we had opportunities and possession but the goal we deserved wouldn't come. The statistics show that we had a lot of opportunities but we didn't take them.
Vanderlei Luxemburgo
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Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. If you were going to give Rock 'n' Roll another name you might as well call it Chuck Berry. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - Rock and Roll or Christianity.
John Lennon The Beatles -
I used to watch a lot of documentaries about Satanic possession - and I don't know if this is racist or not - but in the documentaries, it never happened to Americans! It was always happening in Central America or South America; that's where the priest was always going down to exorcise possessed people. So I didn't have a lot of fear of being possessed by the devil.
Chuck Klosterman -
A friend is a possession we earn, not a gift.
Marvin J. Ashton -
Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, Niels Bohr is one of the amiable colleagues I have met. He utters his opinions like one perpetually groping and never like one who believes himself to be in possession of the truth.
Albert Einstein -
Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
John Lennon The Beatles -
Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
Coco Chanel
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The sunset glow of self-possession.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas -
Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable of content with the anthologies of all the world besides.
William Ernest Henley -
Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent.
William Wordsworth -
Taking possession of your positive self will put you on the success beam that you may ride triumphantly to whatever heights of achievement you desire.
Napoleon Hill -
Possessions, for the terminally frightened, bring peace of mind.
Cynthia Heimel -
Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Hope is the best possession.
William Hazlitt -
If you search everywhere, yet cannot find what you are seeking, it is because what you seek is already in your possession.
Lao Tzu -
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 -
I try not to be sentimental and obsessive about possessions. I love collecting, but I hate owning.
Karl Lagerfeld -
Possession naturally abates the Vigour of Desire.
Eliza Haywood -
It's dead -- for the time being. I think we're in a dark period right now. They're going after growers and seed dealers, and more people are being charged with simple possession.
Alan Young
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Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
William Hazlitt -
One of the great secrets of the day is to know how to take possession of popular prejudices and passions, in such a way as to introduce a confusion of principles which makes impossible all understanding between those who speak the same language and have the same interests.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
The present generation finds itself the heir of a vast patrimony of science; and it must needs concern us to know the steps by which these possessions were acquired, and the documents by which they are secured to us and our heirs for ever.
William Whewell -
Love and exclusive possession can never go together.
Mahatma Gandhi