152 Possession Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Kindness Better Will Possession Knows Accept How Friend Than Any Show Who

Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure. Victor Hugo

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time Me Mine Possession All-Time Becomes Understands Hears Who

A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible. Ada Lovelace

Future Language Become Analysis Speedy Our Possession Possible More Purposes Vast Developed Powerful New Rendered Practical Than Truths Accurate Hitherto May Which Mankind Means Use Application Wield

Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten. Albert J. Nock

Knowledge Culture Considered Define Possession Has-Been Well Been Truly May Forgotten Body Useless Useless Knowledge Large Now

My wealth is reflected in the price of Severstal, and the number of shares I have in my possession doesn't have any impact on the company. Alexei Mordashov

Wealth Possession Impact Price Shares Reflected Any Company Number

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession. Andre Breton

Art Science Will Nothing Possession Industry Than Less Desire

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it. Anthony Burgess

Book Reading Possession Becomes Substitute

When we are in possession, tactically, he is the best coach in the world for me. He works hard, watches a lot of games, and prepares us really well. Guardiola has the feeling for gaping spaces, and he already had that as a player. Arjen Robben

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source. Brigham Young

Wisdom Knowledge You Light Possession Some Source Received

To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife. Bruce Feirstein

Truth Man Wife Possession Married Must Married Man Paraphrase Vast Austen Want Acknowledged Jane Jane Austen Younger Fortune Universally

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms. Bryant H. McGill

Knowledge Enemy Control Destroy Possession Misfortune Freedoms Makes Greatest Authority

I have no intention of selling any more of the historical Apollo 11 items in my possession for the remainder of my life. I intend to pass a portion of these items on to my children and to loan the most important items for permanent display in suitable museums around the country. Buzz Aldrin

Life Loan My Life Country Important Suitable Possession No Intention More Most Around Pass Permanent Historical Items Selling Intend Any Intention The Most Important Children Apollo Display Portion Museums

Football is open; it is not only keeping possession of the ball and making more passes. Claudio Ranieri

Possession More Only Open Football Ball Making Passes Keeping

The Hebrew Bible has long been the world's possession, and those who come to it by any means, through whatever language, are equals in ownership, and may not be denied the intimacy of their spiritual claim. Cynthia Ozick

Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime. David Mamet

Great Crime Country Every Back Great Country Possession Clock Roll Started

The style is the same at all levels, which facilitates things: bring the ball out from the back, keep possession, work gaps to create chances. It's like that from the Under-15s all the way through. That's the Spanish way, and it has triumphed. David de Gea

I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it. E. L. Doctorow

Work You Somewhere Feeling Feelings Same Thing Else Once Relativity Say Possession Possessive Out Exactly About Somewhere Else Write Writers He Feel Ideas Said Came Were His Discovered Celebrated Personal Same Any Einstein Theories Thing

I still have a home in Sarajevo, and there is a room where the walls are covered with football jerseys. One is a Milan shirt with Shevchenko's name and number on the back. It is an original from one of his Serie A appearances, and he has autographed it. It has pride of place. It really is my prized possession. Edin Dzeko

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. Edward Gibbon

Basically everything I've done in art, I was in possession of when I was 20 years old. I use a waste retrieval method of working. I'll go back and use something that disgusted me 15 years ago but that I had enough sense to think about. Some artists change dramatically. I see my work more like history being written. Edward Ruscha

Work Art Me History Change Old Sense Think Enough Back Dramatically Everything Possession See Some About Something More Had Had Enough Written Like Go Method Years Years Ago Done Artists Disgusted Being Working Use Waste Basically

Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself - a force that works against man or, against God, if you will. Eric Butterworth

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