Possession Quotes
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 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
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
Possession naturally abates the Vigour of Desire.
Eliza Haywood
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
When young, beware of fighting; when strong, beware of sex; and when old, beware of possession.
Confucius
Hope is the best possession.
William Hazlitt
Maybe we didn't have many possessions, but we never went hungry, were cold, or lacked love.
Yanni
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
She turned of an ashy paleness as cold hatred and desire for revenge took possession of her vindictive soul.
Charlotte Dacre
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
John Locke
Nazareth
Possessions, for the terminally frightened, bring peace of mind.
Cynthia Heimel
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
We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.
Friedrich Nietzsche
He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983.
Sandy Berger
In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women. If a married couple come to settle in the town, somehow the gentleman disappears; he is either fairly frightened to death by being the only man in the Cranford parties, or he is accounted for by being with his regiment, his hip, or closely engaged in business all the week in the great neighbouring commercial town of Drumble, distant only twenty miles on a railroad. In short, whatever does become of the gentlemen, they are not at Cranford.
Elizabeth Gaskell
