#possession

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

The world is already yours - why try to conquer it? ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#acceptance #appreciation #conquer #consciousness #contentment

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions. ↗

— Max Lerner

#civilization #consumers #get #our #ourselves

At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it. ↗

— Yukio Mishima

#complete #down #ever #journey #last

Great wealth took possession of the government. It was reflected in Mr. Harding's selection of a cabinet. ↗

— George William Norris

#government #great #harding #mr #possession

It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#being #body #claim #enter #her

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. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#data #destruction #does #existence #information

In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought. ↗

— Elihu Root

#always #another #country #desire #first

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal. ↗

— Sallust

#fleeting #fragile #glorious #glory #goes

Germany can generally only pay if the Corridor and Upper Silesia will be handed back to Germany from Polish possession, and if besides somewhere on the earth colonial territory will be made available to Germany. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#back #besides #colonial #corridor #earth