Possession Quotes

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

The greatest possession is self-possession.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another.

We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction.

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

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.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Well, they had a lot of the things they found in his possession. They had the map, you know, that marked the route of the parade. They had statements from the bus driver and the taxicab driver that hauled him somewhere.

Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!

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.

One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.

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.

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.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

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.

I don't know much about football but everyone seems to say that it is all about possession.

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.