Possession Quotes
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When you coach Russ Smith, you have a nervous breakdown on every possession. He's not from a different country. He's from a different planet.
Rick Pitino -
The course of the line we indicated as forming our grandest terrestrial fold along the shores of Japan returns upon itself. It is an endless fold, an endless band, the common possession of two sciences. It is geological in origin, geographical in effect. It is the wedding ring of geology and geography, uniting them at once and for ever in indissoluble union.
Charles Lapworth
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The time period lying between command of goods of a higher order and possession of the corresponding goods of lower order can never be eliminated.
Carl Menger -
There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer.
Marcel Proust -
No possession is gratifying without a companion.
Seneca the Younger -
Within the context of the alchemical vocabulary, the psychedelic experience, as brought to us through plants long in the possession of Aboriginal people, appears to be the identical phenomena.
Terence McKenna -
I found a guy in the Bronx who had an old plywood Kay bass that he wanted $75 for. He held it for me, and I gave him a few dollars every time I could scrape some extra money together. Meanwhile I borrowed or rented basses for jam sessions and paying jobs. It was a great thrill when I finally took possession of my Kay.
Bill Crow -
I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.
Virginia Woolf
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All religions, with their gods, their demigods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the credulous fancy of men who had not attained the full development and full possession of their faculties.
Mikhail Bakunin -
People who don't have the interest or aptitude for serious college studies at age 18 may find that later in life they do, but those who enroll just because they think that the mere possession of a college degree is the passport to success will just dig themselves a financial hole.
George Leef -
I felt I was owned by possessions.
Nicolas Berggruen -
My hold on the past and the future is precarious and my possession of my own time is always postponed until a stage when I may fully understand it, yet this stage can never be reached, since it would be one more moment bounded by the horizon of its future, and requiring in its turn, further developments in order to be understood.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty -
My goal is to win the next game one possession at a time. That's it. I don't have any other goals
Brad Stevens -
Health is the greatest possession.
Lao Tzu
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The key is to maintain an evenness. Try to play one possession at a time, regardless of what happened on the last possession...
Brad Stevens -
At my age, I realize that my most precious possession is time, and I've got too much unfinished work to do to spend even a minute talking about myself.
Benny Carter -
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 -
The land, the earth God gave to man for his home ... should never be the possession of any man, corporation, (or) society ... any more than the air or water.
Abraham Lincoln -
There is one possession that can never be taken away as long as you will not allow it to be taken, and that is your word.
Bill Courtney -
The greatest possession is self-possession.
Ethel Watts Mumford
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There are perhaps only one or two things in the world which are not far more charming in desire than they are in possession.
Anna Brackett -
Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
It is easier to renounce worldly possessions than it is to renounce the love of them
Walter Hilton -
Russia does not have in its possession any trustworthy data that supports the existence of nuclear weapons or any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and we have not received any such information from our partners as yet.
Vladimir Putin