Possessive Quotes

• I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Book, Character, Addiction

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• The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

  Van Wyck Brooks

  War, Creativity, Men

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• A real spirituality must be rooted in earthliness. Any spirituality that denies the earth, rejects the earth, becomes abstract, becomes airy-fairy. It has no more blood in it; it is no more alive. Yes, Jews are very earth-bound. And what is wrong in having money? One should not be possessive; one should be able to use it. And Jews know how to use it! One should not be miserly. Money has to be created and money has to be used. Money is a beautiful invention, a great blessing, if rightly used. It makes many things possible. Money is a magical phenomenon.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Money, Real

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• Then I guess we cannot miss the famous festival in New Orleans," he found himself saying, just to take the shadows from her eyes. She was silent a moment, her fingers twisting in the blanket. "Do you mean it, Gregori? We can go?" "You know how much I love crowds of humans," he said, straight-faced. She laughed at him. "They don't bite." "I do," he said, the words low and soft, his silver gaze at once possessive.

  Christine Feehan

  Mean, Eye, New Orleans

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• I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood are conditions people have to work at. It's a serious matter. You compromise, you give, you take, you stand firm, and you're relentless...And it is an investment. Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I'm married to someone who is very jealous and you're married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come.

  Maya Angelou

  Brother, Sibling, Believe

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• Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coaching staff, the same rule applies.

  Bruce Jay Friedman

  Cowboy, Men, Understanding

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• I did not want to put myself on the line, as an Australian playing Britains greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive, possessive - and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger - or my own reputation.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Anger, Risk, Fans

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• Remember: Y'all is singular. All y'all is plural. All y'all's is plural possessive.

  Kinky Friedman

  Remember, Possessiveness

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• It is an irony that the more possessive you are, the more love you demand, the less you receive, while the more freedom you give, the less you demand, the more love you will receive.

  Harold H. Bloomfield

  Love You, Giving, Demand

  Harold H. Bloomfield, Natasha Josefowitz (1992). “Love Secrets for a Lasting Relationship”, Bantam Books

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• These predators loved with wild fury, but they were also darkly possessive, crossing the boundary into what humans might term obsession.

  Nalini Singh

  Predator, Might, Obsession

  Nalini Singh (2008). “Mine to Possess”, p.231, Penguin

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• I think the big problem is what I call "possessive monogamy." I think we should have a lot more freedom in our sexual lives. We should stop making monogamous commitments.

  Chester Brown

  Commitment, Thinking, Should Have

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My wife is possessive and I like that

  Fawad Afzal Khan

  Wife, My Wife

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• I feel possessive about stories I write in Spanish and so I usually end up translating those into English myself.

  Achy Obejas

  Writing, Translate

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You have to be possessive about who you love

  Sushant Singh Rajput

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• All the time the joke is that the word "mine" in its fully possessive sense cannot be uttered by a human being about anything. In the long run either [Satan] or God will say "mine" of each thing that exists, and specially of each man.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Men, Long

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• Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.

  Yoko Ono

  Men, Stronger, Easier

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• Confronted with the loving-sharing Consensus of subject-SUBJECT relationships all Authoritarianism must vanish. The Fairy Family Circle, co-joined in the shared vision of non-possessive love - which is the granting to any other and all others that total space wherein each may grow and soar to his own freely-selected, full potential - reaching out to one another subject-to-SUBJECT, becomes for the first time in history the true working model of a Sharing Consensus!

  Harry Hay

  Space, Circles, Vision

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  The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.

  Bertrand Russell

  Play, Creative, Life Is

  Bertrand Russell, Richard A. Rempel (1995). “Pacifism and Revolution, 1916-18”, p.228, Psychology Press

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• You must control your anger and jealousy and possessive nature or, as you become more powerful and your will increases in strength, you will injure others.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Buddhism, Increase

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• It is always difficult to give oneself up; few persons anywhere ever succeed in doing so, and even fewer transcend the possessive stage to know love for what it actually is: a perpetual discovery, and immersion in the waters of reality, an unending re-creation.

  Octavio Paz

  Reality, Discovery, Giving

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• I hope you're never happy with anybody but me, and every face you look into, I hope you're haunted by me. Yes, I'm possessive and jealous, at least I speak honestly.

  Dolly Parton

  Honesty, Jealous, Faces

  Song: I Hope You're Never Happy, Album: Real Love, 1985

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• Love is unconditional acceptance. It is love of parents for child; also the non-possessive love of partners; also the caring love between all people that enables forgiveness. It's above energy, though it may be expressed energetically. It's our essential nature: Spirit itself, the quality we share with God. And it is the binding force of the Universe, inherent in all that is.

  Peter Shepherd

  Children, Acceptance, Caring

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• A lot of men are very possessive and they want to control you. But as you grow older, you attract people who are on your wavelength and who understand who you are.

  Marisa Berenson

  Men, People, Wavelength

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• I've come to the conclusion that a long personal relationship is next to impossible for me. Ultimately, music is a possessive mistress.

  Leonard Slatkin

  Long, Mistress, Next

  "Star-spangled Promenader" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. July 13, 2001.

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• So much of our conversation about love is possessive. "You are mine. And if you stop being mine, I will hate you." And so exploring non-possessive ideas of love and friendship is important. Which is not to say we should just break down monogamy, I'm not taking a simplistic point of view. But, in addition to these examples of possessive love that we already have so much of, let us also explore what examples of non-possessive love and affection mean.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Hate, Mean, Love Is

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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