Possession Quotes

Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.

The thing that I've always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a material possession that you can put on a shelf. And the idea of music, for me, is always about both the communication and the sharing of content. And so the interactive part is missing.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

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.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

When resources become skimpy, human beings don't suddenly cooperate to conserve what's left. They fight to the last scrap for possession of a diminishing resource.

If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest.

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods.

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.

The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession, and of which it could not with its own citizens ever have taken possession.

Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

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

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.

Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together.

This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.