Possession Quotes

• Hope is the best possession.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Possession
  • Hopeful
  • Anticipation

• 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
  • Harmony
  • Impulse
  • Magnificent

• I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.

  

  Edgar Quinet
  • Satisfaction
  • Infinity
  • Mistrust

• Possession naturally abates the Vigour of Desire.

  

  Eliza Haywood
  • Desire
  • Abates
  • Vigour

• Exorcists always need to distinguish demonic possessions from mental or psychiatric disorders, and they use three symptoms to identify people as possessed. First, those people have the ability to see hidden sacred objects, which they always want removed. Second, they have an extraordinary physical strength. And third, they show an aversion to the sacred

  

  Gerard Verschuuren
  • People
  • Physical
  • Exorcist

• I try not to be sentimental and obsessive about possessions. I love collecting, but I hate owning.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Trying
  • Hate
  • Sentimental

• A man's heart must be very frivolous if the possession of fame rewards the labor to attain it. For the worst of reputation is that it is not palpable or present - we do not feel or see or taste it.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Heart
  • Reputation
  • Rewards

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

  

  Confucius
  • Fighting
  • Sex
  • Possession

• To love in the sense of passion-love is the contrary of to live. It is an impoverishment of one's being, an askesis without sequel, an inability to enjoy the present without imagining it as absent, a never-ending flight from possession.

  

  Denis de Rougemont
  • Love
  • Passion
  • Contrary

• The possession of a perfect knowledge of your business is an absolute necessity in order to insure success.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Business
  • Success
  • Knowledge

• She turned of an ashy paleness as cold hatred and desire for revenge took possession of her vindictive soul.

  

  Charlotte Dacre
  • Soul
  • Revenge
  • Hatred

• I used to lie down on the grass and draw the blades as they grew - until every square foot of meadow, or mossy bank, became a possession to me.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Possession
  • Grass
  • Meadow

• 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 is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Law

• Maybe we didn't have many possessions, but we never went hungry, were cold, or lacked love.

  

  Yanni
  • Love
  • Cold
  • Hungry

• It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.

  

  Henry James Sumner Maine
  • World
  • Events
  • Western

• I have no desire for wealth or possessions, and so I have nothing. I do not experience the initial suffering of having to accumulate possessions, the intermediate suffering of having to guard and keep up possessions, nor the final suffering of loosing the possessions.

  

  Milarepa
  • Possession
  • Finals
  • Initials

• It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Possession

• A friend is a possession we earn, not a gift.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Friend
  • Gift
  • Possession

• 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
  • Truth
  • Knowledge
  • Opinions

• Possessions, for the terminally frightened, bring peace of mind.

  

  Cynthia Heimel
  • Mind
  • Peace
  • Frightened

• We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Value
  • Possession
  • Adversary

• He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983.

  

  Sandy Berger
  • Destruction
  • Iraq
  • Mass

• Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.

  

  Lord Byron
  • People
  • Reason
  • Possession

• I have no intention of selling any more of the historical Apollo 11 items in my possession for the remainder of my life. I intend to pass a portion of these items on to my children and to loan the most important items for permanent display in suitable museums around the country.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Life
  • Important
  • Country

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