Possession Quotes - Page 38

• The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.

  J. G. Holland

  Love, Positive, Heartbreak

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• A certain type of man, when he loves for the first time, his love is not really love, it is possession. Possessions don't have rights or feelings; they are something to owned and controlled. He had spent more than a year trying to do just that, and failing.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Love Is, Men, Rights

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• He’d never be able to touch her, and as passionate as she was, she would eventually need a man who could. He’d never had to worry about these things before because he’d never been with a woman. Not even before his possession. He’d been too busy then, too involved in his job. Maybe he needed to join Workaholics Anonymous, he thought dryly. He had to be the only millennia-old virgin in history.

  Gena Showalter

  Jobs, Men, Worry

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Whisper”, p.180, HQN Books

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• What you have learned from experience is worth much more than gold. If you have a house it may burn down. Any kind of possession can be lost, but your experience is yours forever. Keep it and find a way to use it.

  Somaly Mam

  House, Forever, Gold

  Somaly Mam (2008). “The Road of Lost Innocence: As a girl she was sold into sexual slavery, but now she rescues others. The story of a Cambodian heroine.”, p.156, Spiegel & Grau

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• I am in full possession of the amazing power of being sarcastic.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Being Sarcastic

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Covenant”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• Ugh! Why couldn’t anyone ever trust her? She wasn’t a two-year-old. If her kindness killed her, then she was better off dead than living a cold, unfeeling life where she misered up all her feelings and possessions.’ (Sunshine)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Kindness, Sunshine, Years

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Embrace”, p.64, St. Martin's Press

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• Poems On Love Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty. Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom. Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it. Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Love Is, Giving, Joy

  Rabindranath Tagore, “Poems On Love”

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• The sinister, the terrible never deceive: the state in which they leave us is always one of enlightenment. And only this condition of vicious insight allows us a full grasp of the world, all things considered, just as a frigid melancholy grants us full possession of ourselves. We may hide from horror only in the heart of horror. (“The Medusa”)

  Thomas Ligotti

  Heart, Enlightenment, Medusa

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• Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting to be realised; something which is a remote possibility, and yet the greatest of present facts; something that gives meaning to all that passes, and yet eludes apprehension; something whose possession is the final good, and yet is beyond all reach; something which is the ultimate ideal, and the hopeless quest.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Real, Giving, Waiting

  1925 Science and the Modern World.

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• We cannot arrive at the perfect possession of God in this life, and that is why we are travelling and in darkness. But we already possess Him by grace, and therefore in that sense we have arrived and are dwelling in the light. But oh! How far have I to go to find You in Whom I have already arrived!

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Light, Dwelling

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• One of the most frustrating words in the human language, as far as I could tell, was love. So much meaning attached to this one little word. People bandied it about freely, using it to describe their attachments to possessions, pets, vacation destinations, and favorite foods. In the same breath they then applied this word to the person they considered most important in their lives. Wasn’t that insulting? Shouldn’t there be some other term to describe deeper emotion?

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Vacation, Attachment, People

  Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.12, Macmillan

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• I testify that no one of us is less treasured or cherished of God than another. I testify that He loves each of us—insecurities, anxieties, self-image, and all. He doesn’t measure our talents or our looks; He doesn’t measure our professions or our possessions. He cheers on every runner, calling out that the race is against sin, not against each other.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Cheer, Race, Self

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• I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals that have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed empty to me. The trite objects of human efforts - possessions, outward success, luxury - have always seemed to me contemptible.

  Albert Einstein

  Art, Kindness, Men

  "Mein Weltbild". Book by Albert Einstein, 1931.

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• We had put almost all of our possessions in storage, which was a metaphor for being twenty, as were so many things.

  Lorrie Moore

  Twenties, Metaphor, Storage

  Lorrie Moore (2009). “A Gate at the Stairs”, p.263, Vintage

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• For Ragamuffins, God's name is Mercy. We see our darkness as a prized possession because it drives us into the heart of God. Without mercy our darkness would plunge us into despair - for some, self-destruction. Time alone with God reveals the unfathomable depths of the poverty of the spirit. We are so poor that even our poverty is not our own: It belongs to the mysterium tremendum of a loving God.

  Brennan Manning

  Heart, Self, Names

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• A testimony is a most precious possession because it is not acquired by logic or reason alone, it cannot be purchased with earthly possessions, and it cannot be given as a present or inherited from our ancestors. We cannot depend on the testimonies of other people. We need to know for ourselves. President Gordon B. Hinckley said, ‘Every Latter-day Saint has the responsibility to know for himself or herself with a certainty beyond doubt that Jesus is the resurrected, living Son of the living God.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Responsibility, Son

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• An appreciation for high fashion does not preclude possession of common sense.

  Tasha Alexander

  Appreciation, Fashion, Common Sense

  FaceBook post by Tasha Alexander from Oct 04, 2013

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• Lee Jordan was finding it difficult not to take sides. 'So — after that obvious and disgusting bit of cheating —' 'Jordan!' growled Professor McGonagall. 'I mean after that open and revolting foul —' 'Jordan, I'm warning you —' 'All right, all right. Flint nearly kills the Gryffindor Seeker, which could happen to anyone, I'm sure, so a penalty to Gryffindor, taken by Spinnet, who puts it away, no trouble, and we continue play, Gryffindor still in possession.

  J. K. Rowling

  Cheating, Taken, Mean

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• There are periods of despondency and suffering which take possession of me. But I don't want anything but my own way. That is wanting a good deal, of course, when you have to trample upon the lives, the hearts, the prejudices of others-

  Kate Chopin

  Heart, Suffering, Prejudice

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.292

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• He loved possessions, not masses of them, but a select few that he did not part with.They gave a man self-respect. Not ostentation but quality, and the love that cherished the quality. Possessions reminded him that he existed, and made him enjoy his existence. It was as simple as that. And wasn' t that worth something? He existed.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Simple, Men, Self

  "The Talented Mr. Ripley".

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• He hadn’t once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes. Sometimes, too, he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way, as though in her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Real, Eye, Thinking

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2003). “The Great Gatsby”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many. The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions.

  Adam Smith

  Men, Envy, Want

  Adam Smith (1809). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.95

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• It's a truth universally acknowledged that an FBI special agent in possession of great skill and talent is likely to engage in trash talk every now and then.

  Julie James

  Skills, Special, Agents

  Julie James (2011). “A Lot Like Love”, p.50, Penguin

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• Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef.

  Oscar Wilde

  Believe, Opinion, Moral

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories”, p.141, Penguin

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• Once a person gave his talent to the world, the world put a stamp upon it. The talent was not a personal possession any more. It was something to be traded, bought and sold. It fetched a high price, or a low one. It was kicked in the common market.

  Daphne du Maurier

  World, Common, Talent

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