Quotes on Possession

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

Author: Napoleon Bonaparte

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

Author: Anthony Burgess

See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.

Author: Robert Collier

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

Author: Henry James

But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.

Author: Ted Kotcheff

The greatest possession is self-possession.

Author: Ethel Mumford

For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity.

Author: George Orwell

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

Author: John Ruskin

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.

Author: Henry Wade

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!

Author: Steve Wozniak