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Possession Quotes
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Short possession quotes from writers, poets and thinkers. Copy one, share it, or download it as an image.
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It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
Thomas HardyThomas Hardy There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.
Billy GrahamBilly Graham The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.
Louisa May AlcottLouisa May Alcott The successful construction of all machinery depends on the perfection of the tools employed; and whoever is a master in the arts of tool-making possesses the key to the construction of all machines… The contrivance and construction of tools must therefore ever stand at the head of the industrial arts.
Charles BabbageCharles Babbage How you spend your time is far more important than all the material possessions you may own or positions you may attain.
Denis WaitleyDenis Waitley Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
Sitting BullSitting Bull If truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the truth repulsive.
Ravi ZachariasRavi Zacharias Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
Jack LondonJack London Your caress seduces my body like I’m possessed.
Michael DennisMichael Dennis Love cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction. I can grant a lasting love just as I can grant a lasting unsatisfaction; but the lasting love cannot be coupled with possession, for love is pain and desire and possession is easement and fulfilment.
Jack LondonJack London Thoughts on a tapestry. Colour or black and white. A brush, a pen, A flash of light. Ideas flowing soon, about to take flight.
Gerard GleesonGerard Gleeson Like deep water, she was silent. His lips tasted of salt. He was both addicting and bitter all at once.
MoomerMoomer Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone else heart.
Alexander KandovAlexander Kandov And I would lie on your chest for hours and dream about the world in your arms but your thoughts were in another world.
Ani ShahverdyanAni Shahverdyan Your smile and your laughter lit my whole world.
Ranata SuzukiRanata Suzuki Often all we can do is breathe, even that can be hard sometimes.
Julia Kellogg HenryJulia Kellogg Henry