Possession Quotes
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In every game, there's three teams out there. There's the two basketball teams and the team of officials. If the two teams are evenly matched, it can come down to number of possessions. If one out-of-bounds call goes the wrong way, that can be the difference.
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You can play anyone if you're open enough. It's a form of possession. Each time you work on something, you allow yourself to be possessed by creating the environment for it. Then you allow the possession to happen - but not at the expense of your sanity or of your identity.
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The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers....Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
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Great expectations are better than a poor possession.
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The use of our possessions shows us up for what we actually are.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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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.
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It was our belief that the love of possessions is a weakness to be overcome. . . . Children must early learn the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving. . . . The Indians in their simplicity literally give away all that they have—to relatives, to guests of other tribes or clans, but above all to the poor and the aged, from whom they can hope for no return.
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Our possessions are wholly in our performances. He owns nothing to whom the world owes nothing.
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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.
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True love can exist only in freedom from possession.
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Entry is not equivalent to possession.
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Other writers of history recorded the fighting of wars waged for the sake of children and country and other possessions. But our narrative of the government of God will record in ineffaceable letters the most peaceful wars waged in behalf of the peace of the soul.
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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.
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How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public.
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And it gives me positive personal pain to see heirs of the eternal kingdom, made such by the ignominious death of their Lord, go shrinking and weeping to the full possession of their inheritance.
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It was this feminine conspiracy which made Southern society so pleasant. Women knew that a land where men were contented, uncontradicted ans safe in possession of unpunctured vanity was likely to be a very pleasant place for women to live. So, from the cradle to the grave, women strove to make men pleased with themselves, and the satisfied men repaid lavishly with gallantry and adoration. In fact, men willingly gave ladies everything in the world except credit for having intelligence.
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Now although man is created for the possession of happiness, yet, having deviated from his true end, his nature has become deformed and is entirely repugnant to true beatitude. And on this account we are forced to submit to God this depraved nature of ours which fills our understanding with so many occupations, and causes us to deviate from the true path, in order that he may entirely consume it until nothing remains there but himself; otherwise the soul could never attain stability nor repose, for she was created for no other end.
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When you live alone, your furnishings, your possessions, are always confronting you with the thinness of your existence.
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His heritage to his children wasn't words or possessions, but an unspoken treasure, the treasure of his example as a man and a father.
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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession; like the honor of a soldier, dearer to him than life.
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Laws against the possession of weapons only disarm those who have no intention of committing a crime.
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We want to know what he has been doing over the past few years which he spent behind bars. We are not interested in punishing him but in gleaning valuable information he might have in his possession.
