Possessions Quotes

He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods. Kate Chopin
Matter Rare Painting Pleasure Possessions Valued Had He Bought Contemplating Household Because Genuine Were His Greatly Chiefly Gods Lace After Curtain Placed Derived Among
I don't have a lot of clothes or a lot of possessions to bog me down. Krysten Ritter
Me Clothes Down Possessions Lot
Everything we own really belongs to God, we are just renting it, and when we die those things are going to become somebody else's possessions. Lane Kiffin
God Somebody Become Own Else Everything Those Possessions Renting Die Going Just Really Things Belongs
Monarchs, aristocrats, and other powerful and wealthy individuals have usually been happy to have themselves and their possessions and families immortalised in oil paintings and sculpture. But before the 20th century, such dynasts rarely commissioned artworks that set out to represent society as a whole. Linda Colley
Happy Before Society Other Possessions Out Wealthy Rarely Aristocrat Individuals Powerful Been Families Commissioned Represent Oil Century Themselves Sculpture Whole Paintings Monarchs Set
Eviction causes loss. You lose not only your home but also your possessions, which are thrown onto the curb or taken by movers, and often you can't keep up payments. Matthew Desmond
Home You Lose Possessions Only Onto Thrown Taken Also Causes Loss Up Curb Often Which Your Payments Keep
And, of course, it must be asked: is it proper to transact with the Turks for the most reassured of Greek possessions when Greece is under Turkish invasion and subjugation? Melina Mercouri
Possessions Must Proper Invasion Most Course Subjugation Greece Greek Turkish Turks Asked Reassured
I tend to look out for things with a resonance to my youth - artists or objects that seemed romantic all those years ago. I never buy anything purely for its value. I like possessions that smile back at me. Nicholas Haslam
Smile Buy Me Youth Value Resonance Back Those Possessions Out Purely Seemed Objects Tend Never Like Look Years Years Ago Artists Romantic Anything Things
Having enough money has to go hand in hand with living in a way that you're not being a slave to your possessions. Patton Oswalt
You Money Living Enough Enough Money Way Possessions Having Go Hand Hand-In-Hand Being Your Slave
I attended school regularly for three years. I learned to read and write. 'Lamb's Tales' from Shakespeare was my favourite reading matter. I stole, by finding, Palgrave's 'Golden Treasury.' These two books, and the 'Everyman' edition of John Keats, were my proudest and dearest possessions, my greatest wealth. Peter Abrahams
Wealth School Matter Three Reading Everyman Books Possessions Finding Favourite John Shakespeare Write Attended Tales Read Learned Greatest Edition Proudest Dearest Were Years Stole Golden Lamb Regularly Keats Treasury Two
Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted. Peter Stuyvesant
War Peace Blessed Possessions Torch Secured Hath Threatened He Lighted Lord Praise Where Your England Even Jerusalem Here Gates
I go through life accumulating possessions... I've always done it... and then, every once in a while, a sort of tidal wave comes along and washes them all away. Preston Sturges
Life Every Wave Once Possessions Through Along Tidal Sort Always Go Accumulate Done While Them Then Away
My nan taught me never to put value on possessions but to value family, friends and people. I buy lovely things and enjoy them, but they don't rule me. Rebecca Ferguson
Buy Family Me People Value Enjoy Rule Possessions Never Put Friends Taught Lovely Them Things
When I was in college, my parents' house burned down, and took a lot of the possessions I'd grown up with. That's probably one thing that made me realize material stuff is not really that important. Rick Riordan
Me Made College Parents Important Down Took Possessions One Thing Stuff House Material Lot Up Burned Realize Really Grown Grown-Up Thing
I didn't know I was poor, growing up, because everyone was in the same boat. I couldn't have bikes. It never really bothered me, but I could have any book. I loved school; I loved learning. Yeah, I never cared for possessions. I still don't, really. Ricky Gervais
Me Learning Book School Everyone Possessions Could Bothered Never Know Because Still Yeah Up Same Any Loved Poor Boat Bikes Really Growing Growing Up Cared
The Yanukovych regime is a mafia, which regularly threatens, imprisons, murders, or disappears political opponents as well as those whose possessions it covets. Robert Zubrin
Political Those Possessions Mafia Threatens Disappears Well Opponents Political Opponents Which Regime Regularly Whose
People who wander are nicer to be with. Movement militates against hoarding possessions and against bigotry, because you are constantly moving across boundaries and having to negotiate with people. Robyn Davidson
You People Negotiate Possessions Constantly Having Boundaries Because Hoarding Wander Movement Against Moving Across Who Nicer
Shooting at Coco Chanel's apartment was an unexpectedly absorbing experience. The essence of Chanel is firmly rooted there in all of her possessions, and I truly believe that her spirit and soul still inhabit the second floor. Sam Taylor-Johnson
Soul Experience Believe Possessions Spirit Absorb Firmly Still Truly Shooting Unexpectedly Essence Apartment Rooted Inhabit Floor Her Second Chanel
Character is property. It is the noblest of possessions. Samuel Smiles
Character Property Possessions Noblest
I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother. Satish Kumar
Mother Extreme Possessions See More Had Go Than Grew Used Who Even Monks
I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing. Sheryl Crow
Family Become Nothing Draw Possessions Feel Like Materialistic Friends Person Achievements Mean Really Less
I always want to talk about real life, not about material possessions. I've got to tell the story of the people for the people and not for celebrity or fame. Slowthai
Life People Real Life Possessions Tell About For The People Talk Always Got Material Real Fame Celebrity Want Story
I was not from a middle-class family at all. I did not have middle-class possessions and what have you. But I had middle-class parents who gave me what was needed to survive in society. Sugar Ray Leonard
Family Me You Parents Society Gave Possessions Had Survive Did Middle-Class Family To Survive Who Needed
If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation. Thomas Bulfinch
Knowledge Society Other Our Claim Station Possessions Mythology Which Then Useful Helps Deserves Raise
Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you. Thomas Mann
You Culture Bourgeoisie Possessions
In every game, there's three teams out there. There's the two basketball teams and the team of officials. If the two teams are evenly matched, it can come down to number of possessions. If one out-of-bounds call goes the wrong way, that can be the difference. Tom Heinsohn
Game Three Down Every Way Possessions Out Wrong Wrong Way Come Call Matched Goes Officials Difference Team Teams Number Two Basketball
The United States have no possessions in the east and do not desire to have any, as other countries do. Townsend Harris
Other Other Countries States Possessions East Countries Any United United States Desire
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