Choose language

Forgot your password?

Need a Spoofbox account? Create one for FREE!

No subscription or hidden extras

Login

#posses

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #posses




Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen. ↗


— Mort Sahl


#deserve #everything #feel #liberals #possessions

We are tempted to believe that certain achievements and possessions will give us enduring satisfaction. We are invited to imagine ourselves scaling the steep cliff face of happiness in order to reach a wide, high plateau on which we will live out the rest of our lives; we are not reminded that soon after gaining the summit, we will be called down again into fresh lowlands of anxiety and desire. ↗


— Alain de Botton


#anxiety #desire #happiness #materialism #possessions

Well, they had a lot of the things they found in his possession. They had the map, you know, that marked the route of the parade. They had statements from the bus driver and the taxicab driver that hauled him somewhere. ↗


— Henry Wade


#bus driver #cab driver #driver #found #had

IV   The bounded is loathed by its possessor. The same dull round even of a universe would soon become a mill with complicated wheels. V   If the many become the same as the few, when possess'd, More! More! is the cry of a mistaken soul, less than All cannot satisfy Man. VI   If any could desire what he is incapable of possessing, despair must be his eternal lot. VII   The desire of Man being Infinite the possession is Infinite & himself Infinite. ↗


— William Blake


#imagination #limitation #possession #wishful-thinking #imagination

What? Just because I can't have you right now, doesn't mean I'm okay with him having you. ↗


— Cora Carmack


#jealousy #losing-it #possessiveness #jealousy

You chase off every man that’s ever been interested, and you do it without even trying. ↗


— Dianna Hardy


#jealous-hero #jealousy #possessive #possessive-hero #possessiveness

Jealousy is something I cultivate whenever I enter a relationship. It shows proper self-possession. ↗


— Bauvard


#humor #jealousy #possession #funny

The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the number of those still to be read disturbed him. … they stood in rows, weighing down his life like a possession which he did not succeed in subordinating to his personality. ↗


— Thomas Mann


#possessions #readers #reading #things #life

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






back to top