Possessions Quotes

Ownership versus what really matters.

These possessions quotes weigh ownership against what actually matters — feeling owned by your own belongings, and choosing to treasure people over anything you could stack on a shelf of Books.

The United States have no possessions in the east and do not desire to have any, as other countries do.

Quotes by Townsend Harris

Character is property. It is the noblest of possessions.

Quotes by Samuel Smiles

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The possessions of the rich are stolen property.

Quotes by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Quotes by Orson Scott Card

I felt I was owned by possessions.

Quotes by Nicolas Berggruen

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

Quotes by Mort Sahl

And, of course, it must be asked: is it proper to transact with the Turks for the most reassured of Greek possessions when Greece is under Turkish invasion and subjugation?

Quotes by Melina Mercouri

I treasure my friends but not my possessions.

Quotes by Jonathan Pryce

Possessions can be replaced - it's people that can't.

Quotes by Jessica Origliasso

Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.

Quotes by Hamish Bowles

We are not the sum of our possessions.

Quotes by George H. W. Bush

I don't have many possessions, apart from my books.

Quotes by Gary Shteyngart

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Quotes by Epictetus

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Quotes by Elizabeth I

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

Quotes by Edward Gibbon

Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs.

Quotes by Earl Weaver

I don't like possessions.

Quotes by Daniel Barenboim

Even the poorest in Israel are looked upon as freemen who have lost their possessions, for they are the sons of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Quotes by Akiva ben Joseph

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