153 Possession Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Relationship Treat Intimate Possession Part Between Most Readers Text Literature Themselves

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

Wealth Glorious Virtue Possession Glory Goes Eternal Fleeting Fragile

So research is a terribly imperfect science, and you learn an awful lot more after you've published a book, because people keep writing to you and saying, 'Oh, gosh, I was related to such and such a character and I have a letter in my possession.' Simon Winchester

Saying Character You Science Book People Writing Research Related Possession More Imperfect Learn Terribly Gosh Because Lot Oh After Keep Letter Published Awful Awful Lot

You can play anyone if you're open enough. It's a form of possession. Each time you work on something, you allow yourself to be possessed by creating the environment for it. Then you allow the possession to happen - but not at the expense of your sanity or of your identity. Stephen Lang

Work Time You Yourself Enough Possessed Possession Something Allow Open Environment Identity Expense Anyone Form Happen Then Creating Your Sanity Each Each Time Play

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! Steve Wozniak

But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood. Ted Kotcheff

Become Possessed Possession Direct Never Understood Quite

Painfully to attain possession of what we do not want, and then painfully to waste our days in attempting to rid ourselves of it, seems to be a part of our discipline here below. Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Discipline Our Possession Ourselves Seems Attain Attempting Part Days Want Then Painfully Rid Waste Here Below

In the U.K. - correct me if I'm wrong - there is a legal definition of 'not being in possession of yourself' aka 'not being a person.' That's the fun thing: someone such as a lawyer needs to define, using some empirical signal, something supposedly transcendental like 'person,' something lawyers argue and argue about regarding, say, chimps in zoos. Timothy Morton

Needs Me Legal Yourself Lawyer Define Say Correct Definition Possession Signal Some About Someone Something Lawyers Argue Wrong Empirical Like Supposedly Person Being Transcendental Regarding Fun Using Fun Thing Thing Zoo

Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession. Vera Brittain

Meek Possession Never Part Am Friend Your Profession

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. William H. Wharton

Government Own Wilderness Possession Citizens Could Never Had Taken Were Situated Which Lands Granted Ever Savages

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. William Kingdon Clifford

Myself Great Man Money Possession Steal Prevent He Badly Wrong Mere Feel Towards Make Him Doing Loss Person Any Done May Dishonest Transfer Cannot Help Using Harm

Every possession matters, and everything goes down to the wire. Willie Cauley-Stein

Matters Down Every Everything Possession Wire Goes

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. Yo-Yo Ma

Music Me You Communication Slightly Possession Kind About Both Part Put Sharing Idea Missing Content Shelf Always Material Been Confined Interactive Frustrated Thing

You pressure, you want possession, you want to attack. Some teams can't or don't pass the ball. What are you playing for? What's the point? That's not football. Combine, pass, play. That's football - for me, at least. Xavi

Me You Pressure Possession Some Attack Point Football Combine Ball Pass Least Want Teams Play Playing

Players like me, we did something of a thankless job. You don't show a hard tackle or stripping someone of possession in slow motion on the big screen. But if you add it all up, I was always the one that the coaches wrote down automatically on the lineup card. Didier Deschamps

Me You Job Slow Big Down Add Possession Stripping Slow Motion Someone Tackle Something Like Wrote Always Motion Lineup Up Did Thankless Big Screen Screen Automatically Coaches Hard Show Card Players

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