Possessions. The very word is potent – suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
In Spain, everything’s more tactical, more technical, with more possession. In Germany, it’s more physical; it’s about the runs you make, the counterattacks, and the German mentality is unique: whatever the score, you go to the 90th minute.
I like to be in contact with the ball, have possession, to play.
I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It’s a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2001 before I had cleaned up.
Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.
The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than any single possession.
Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.
Part of being a Manchester United player under Sir Alex Ferguson, perhaps the most important part of being one of United’s attacking players was that when you were in possession, you had to take risks in order to create goal-scoring chances. It was not an option; it was an obligation.
Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one’s own, and in that possession to be incapable of content with the anthologies of all the world besides.
I love Sarri’s philosophy. We play high, with a lot of possession in a technical way.
Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together.
Honestly, Thibs is a dog. He’s a guy that is an extreme competitor and very aware of everything that’s going on. Takes each possession like it’s our last, and really coaches with the type of intensity and passion that you want from a coach.
How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public.
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!
As ‘Possession’ progresses, it seems less and less like the usual satire about academia and more like something by Jorge Luis Borges.
In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession.
The intensity and importance of each possession. That’s the thing about the NBA that doesn’t always translate to television.
Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.
After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
Possession and exorcism is something that’s in every religion and every culture. It’s a real primal fear: Is the body a vessel for our spirits? What happens if something else takes over it? Where does the spirit go?
Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
When we demand Woman Suffrage, we can only do so on the ground, not that it should be a right attached to the possession of a certain amount of property, but that it should be inherent in the woman herself.
Possession of the pure synthetic specimens of the anthocyanidins and chief anthocyanins enabled my wife and me to devise quick tests for these colouring matters which can be used with the material from a few flower petals.
When you have a lot of ball possession, you have a lot of ball possession to create chances, not to play the ball around and not score.
Our style of play is increasingly based on possession of the ball. It suits me as a forward. We’ve got an attacking approach, and that means that I get a lot of chances; otherwise, I would have not been able to score so many goals.
As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.
Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!
The number one thing is to catch the football and maintain possession.
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
It’s not just about getting the ball and figuring out every time how you can keep possession, because there are plenty of players who can do that. That’s just not how I view my performances. It’s about, What can I do to change the game and the attacking aspect of the game?
Gratitude, warm, sincere, intense, when it takes possession of the bosom, fills the soul to overflowing and scarce leaves room for any other sentiment or thought.
The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.
It is vital to maintain possession and to win it back as soon as possible, because if we win it high up, then the opposition has to run 70 metres.
The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
I was given a Roberts digital radio by my mum and dad. I think it’s my favorite possession.
A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.
My most prized possession is my coffeemaker!
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
The greatest possession is self-possession.
My priority is possession. Attack, get a lot of players in the opposition half, take risks.
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.
Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.
Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.
Reading is a possession, a march toward a possession.
Federal law provides very powerful tools, such as strict mandatory sentences, to go after repeat violent offenders who are illegally in the possession of a gun.
The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
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.
The only thing I would like is to have more control of the game in terms of possession.
I don’t know much about football but everyone seems to say that it is all about possession.
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.
I would also point out that many governments that chose not to support this war – certainly, the French president, Jacques Chirac, as I recall in April of last year, referred to Iraq’s possession of WMD.
To acquire possession of Latium was of the most decisive importance to Etruria, which was separated by the Latins alone from the Volscian towns that were dependent on it and from its possessions in Campania.
Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
I hate it when people in India throw in an American or English accent while rapping without even a passport in possession.
When you play against a top side, you know they will have more possession, and they will be in more control, and you have to find one or two counterattacks.
When the unwelcome little unborn shall have seen the light my brain will be lightened, and I shall have a clearer mind. Thank God that even this weary nine months shall come to an end and leave me in possession of my own body and my own soul.
Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
