Possess Quotes

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“Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating and inaccessible, distant because of his demonstrated flawlessness, and possessing such strength of character that he was dismaying and at the same time utterly attractive in an enticing and forbidden way.”
Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice

“A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind”
Robert Bolton (inventor). Ransford

Andrew  Davidson
“This is the truth: we all desire to conquer the comely one, because it affirms our own worth. Speaking for the men of the world, we want to own the beauty of the woman we're fucking. We want to grasp that beauty, tightly in our greedy little fingers, to well and truly possess it, to make it ours. We want to do this as the woman shines her way through an orgasm. That's perfection. And while I can't speak for women, I imagine that they-whether they admit it or not-want the same thing: to possess the man, to own his rough handsomeness, if only for a few seconds.”
Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

Gretchen McNeil
“Rule Number Two, Monsignor. Do not show pity.”
Gretchen McNeil, Possess

Coco J. Ginger
“He had let me know time after time that he was a thinking man, a man of intellect and wit. Yet one unintended hungry look into my eyes and he betrayed each of his words he had carefully spoken to me. I knew it in that instant. He was a viscerally driven man. And one day, he would possess me.”
Jamie Weise

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“If you haven’t figured it out yet, an absolutely certain way to lose something as quickly as possible is to forget the privilege you have to possess it in the first place.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

Prem Jagyasi
“If we can’t even properly count what we possess, how will we be able to use it?”
Dr Prem Jagyasi

Jeffrey Fry
“I possess no special talent, except my ability to love you.”
Jeffrey Fry

Roger Scruton
“But what can you do with another person's beauty? The satisfied lover is as little able to possess the beauty of his beloved as the one who hopelessly observes it from afar.”
Roger Scruton, Beauty

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“In my desperation, I have finally discovered that the only way that I can begin to fill the gaping hole within me is to be thankful for what’s there, and not angry for what’s not.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

Munia Khan
“Being human doesn't make us humans. Humanity is something else only a kind and loving heart can possess”
Munia Khan

“Man is seldom content to witness beauty.
He must possess it.”
Michael Somare

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Great things come in small things, for only small things have enough space to contain them.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Happiness is not found in what you possess but in what you appreciate.”
Shivanshu K. Srivastava

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“At the point that the ‘privilege’ to possess something becomes more valuable to us than the ‘thing’ that we possess, it is then that we have finally come to deserve both.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Always be in control, do not allow money to possess your heart which should belong to God”
Sunday Adelaja

“If you wish to possess your soul, be patient.”
Lailah Gifty Akita

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Although I’m seldom aware enough to see it, the greater cost regarding that which I possess was not what I paid for it, but what someone along the way sacrificed so that I might have the opportunity to pay for it.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Some people possess talent and some people are possessed by talent.”
Jeffrey G. Duarte

Nitya Prakash
“Most women want to possess their man.
Exceptional women want to possess their man's love.
It's the rarest of women who want to search for the meaning of love and life with their man.”
Nitya Prakash

“Strengthen your borders, your frontier patrols;
It is good to work for the future.
One respects the life of the foresighted,
While he who trusts fails.
Make people come [to you] through your good nature,
A wretch is who desires the land [of his neighbor],
A fool is who covets what others possess.
Life on earth passes, it is not long,
Happy is he who is remembered,”
Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Greed consumes everything that we are in the pursuit of everything that we don’t have. Therefore, to possess everything that the world has to offer but to have lost ourselves in the pursuit is to hold everything but to possess nothing.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Any sense of privilege that we have to possess something seems to vanish once we are actually able to possess it. Therefore, in how many cases would it better ‘not’ to possess something?”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“I don’t wish to possess anything so that I may be left free to experience everything.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

“In patience you shall possess your soul.”
Lailah Gifty Akita

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“The fact that you don’t believe that you have the ability to impact your world has absolutely no bearing on the fact that you’ve always possessed the first and never not done the second.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

“New Year is filled with what we are yet to possess.”
Lailah Gifty Akita

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“If I possess any genius whatsoever, it is found in recognizing that I am not a genius.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

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