#posses

Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for. ↗

— Laura Lippman

#life #need #possessions #regret #wanting

Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing. ↗

— Chuck Barris

#possession #truth #you-and-me-babe #life

Truth is the greatest of all national possessions. A state, a people, a system which suppresses the truth or fears to publish it, deserves to collapse. ↗

— Kurt Eisner

#deserves #fears #greatest #national #people

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#administer #bound #community #good #his

Having it all doesn't necessarily mean having it all at once. ↗

— Stephanie Luetkehans

#possesion #life

If she know how strongly he felt, she'd have run out the door. He wasn't used to the possessive, or the savage joy she brought to his heart. It ate at his control, so he turned his attention to the music. He understood music. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#love #possesion #love

What win I, if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sells eternity to get a toy? For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy? Or what fond beggar, but to touch the crown, Would with the sceptre straight be strucken down? ↗

— William Shakespeare

#fleeting-possession #gain #greed #dreams

What is it about possessing things? Why do we feel the need to own what we love? And why do we become such jerks when we do? We've all been there. You want something, you possess it - and by possessing it, you lose it. ↗

— Louis Chunovic

#possession #life

But soon I loved her completely and wished to possess her, own her, absorb her, eat her. I wanted her in my arms and in my bed, I longed she would open her legs to me ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#mysogyny #possession #sex #love

Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, Secretly possess you. ↗

— Charles Hart

#night #possession #music