Top 230 Possession Quotes

A writer loses possession of her work as soon as it’s reaches its audience. Each reader brings his own experience and prejudice and imagination to the work. Television adaptation just goes one step further, and the novelist has to learn to let go.

Russia does not have in its possession any trustworthy data that supports the existence of nuclear weapons or any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and we have not received any such information from our partners as yet.

I want to try to prove the world wrong – that you can run and win in the NBA, and you can win big if you keep running. The problem is, can you run for 82 games every minute, every possession of every game?

The biggest thing for me is just playing hard every possession.

In my teens, I eyed my adulthood with trepidation, as if stalked by a stranger – one who would seize control as if by demonic possession and regard my fledgling incarnation with contempt.

The experience of playing EuroLeague ball gave myself a different perspective on just the way the game’s played. Every possession matters. Everything has to be on point. Offence, defensively – everybody has to be connected.

One’s religion is one’s own possession and he has a right to it.

The archetypal No. 10 is a skillful player who is more interested in being in possession than tracking to get the ball back.

We know it’s impossible sometimes to have good defending against Cristiano Ronaldo but we want to keep the ball, with good possession, as then he can do nothing in attack.

Football is not about possession or playing a nice passing game. Football is about winning games.

Multiple personality disorder and possession are not necessarily mutually incompatible disorders. There’s some evidence that you can have both.

It is a principle of our nature that feelings once excited turn readily from the object by which they are excited to some other object which may for the time being take possession of the mind.

As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.

Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.

When you’re 2-0 up and you lose possession, you sprint back. So much of it is down to confidence – it’s really down to really wanting to make that run.

A lot of people assume I have a great hat collection, but kids steal my hats at every show. I’ve had all these hats that I’ve loved, but now they’re in some little kids’ possession. It’s difficult to replenish. I don’t think the kids realize this.

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

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.

The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant.

If youre possession based, youve got to be as good as a midfielder.

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

Mourinho is a coach who likes more the ball practice, works the ball possession and makes short games.

There’s no use to have 70 percent possession if the opponent is creating more chances than you are.

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren’t easy questions.

Some games you going to play great. Some games you’re not. So, it’s all about moving on to the next game, next possession. Just come in there every day working, figuring out what you got to work on and see what you did wrong in either in the last game or the last season or whatever.

In England, you might have a possession game of six v. six, and it’s like headless chickens: people running around everywhere just trying to keep the ball and be strong in tackles. But in Spain, you always stay in your position. You’re still in your shape for every drill.

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.

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.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.

The love of power, like the love of money, increases with the possession of it; and we know in what ruin these baneful passions have involved human societies in all ages when they have been let loose and suffered to rage uncontrolled – There is no restraint like the pervading eye of the virtuous citizens.

For me, possession is to keep the ball while you are waiting for the possibility to penetrate. Every pass is for a reason.

I hate jealousy, I hate possessiveness. I’m nobody’s possession.

That’s what my mindset is, making the right play and doing the right thing each and every possession.

My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.

Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.

I want to help my teammates, even if I’m a striker, because it’s important to win back possession. But scoring is something incomparable.

I think I’m ever so slightly behind myself and I don’t know what would make me feel in possession of all the facts.

Britain’s independent possession of nuclear weapons has turned into a political touchstone for commitment to national defense, but this is an illusion.

I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It’s a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others.

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.

Class does not mean huge possession of money. Mother Teresa was a classy woman. So is Manjula Bhargava, a great mathematician of Indian origin. The concept that you automatically gain class by acquiring money is an outdated thought process.

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.

My most prized possession is my pillow. I can’t travel or sleep without it. And it’s, like, this really thin down pillow that really doesn’t do anything, but it’s weird: if I don’t have it, I’m constantly thinking about not having it.

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.

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

If you play every time, long balls, you lose possession and you lose momentum. I don’t want to be like that.

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.

We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.