Possession Quotes

There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms.

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

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2001 before I had cleaned up.

The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction.

The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.

The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.

If you play on possession, you don't have to defend, because there's only one ball

Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.

A society in which men recognize no check upon their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few.

There is no joy in possession without sharing.

Health is the greatest possession.

If God and his grace do not rule us, sin and Satan will have possession of us.

The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory but simply failed to ask the right questions.

Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.

No Kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave.

No one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation.

A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.

Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time.

Society is best served when the means of production are in the possession of those who know how to use them best.

To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible to definition.

Let the moment come when nothing is left but life, and you will find that you do not hesitate over the fate of material possessions.

Nothing's really a prized possession except my family, you know?

We must enter and take possession of the consciences of the children, of the consciences of the young, because they do belong, and should belong to the revolution.

I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.

As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Handing over a bank note is enough to make a bicycle belong to me, but my entire life is needed to realize this possession.

Knowledge indeed is a desirable, a lovely possession.

After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.

I sold my most valuable possession, but I knew that because I worked at Hewlett Packard, I could buy the next model calculator the very next month for a lower price than I sold the older one for!

I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.

Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.

It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.

the possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.

In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents.

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

Never relax, for you will not attain to the possession of true spiritual delights if first you do not learn to deny your every desire.

Love rushed into my veins emptying me of myself. Now filled with the Beloved my only possession is my name.

Take possession of the air, submit the elements, penetrate the last redoubts of nature, make space retreat, make death retreat.

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate.

A pedestrian is a man in danger of his life. A walker is a man in possession of his soul.

Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.

Great expectations are better than a poor possession.

Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, Secretly possess you.

Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.

Obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession, with the possession of a recognized and stable individuality.

For you have in your possession a sacred trust. Guard it well.

Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them.

True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.