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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• 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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• 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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• My wife is possessive and I like that

  Fawad Afzal Khan

  Wife, My Wife

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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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• 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 a pity that...the majority of feminists and their allies have stuck to the dead ground of "Me Decade" possessive individualism, an ideology that has more in common than it admits with the prehistoric right, which it claims to oppose but has in fact encouraged.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Abortion, Feminist, Allies

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• Authentic love is obviously something good... When we love, we become most fully ourselves, most fully human... People often think they are being loving when actually they are being possessive or manipulative. People sometimes treat others as objects to satisfy their own needs... How easy it is to be deceived by the many voices in our society that advocate a permissive approach to sexuality, without regard for modesty, self-respect or the moral values that bring quality to human relationships! This is worship of a false god. Instead of bringing life, it brings death.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Life, Love Is, Self

  Pope Benedict XVI's Address at the Meeting with a Group of Disadvantaged Young People of The Rehabilitation Community of The University Of Notre Dame in Sydney, w2.vatican.va. July 18, 2008.

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• A life without a lonely place, that is, a life without a quiet center, easily becomes destructive. When we cling to the results of our actions as our only way of self-identifiction, then we become possessive and defensive and tend to look at our fellow human beings more as enemies to be kept at a distance than as friends with whom we share the gifts of life.

  Henri Nouwen

  Life, Lonely, Distance

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• Giving presents is one of the most possessive things we do, did you realize that? It's the way we keep a hold on other people. Plant ourselves in their lives.

  Penelope Lively

  People, Giving, Way

  Penelope Lively (2007). “Moon Tiger”, p.90, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I want to sympathize, I do, but the love triangle is just too delicious. The determined rock star and the possessive billionaire. Rawr.

  Sylvia Day

  Stars, Rocks, Triangles

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.437, Penguin

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• Everybody feels protective and possessive about Kurt [Cobain] , and I think that can be attributed to his unique gift, an ability to touch our lives, and make us feel like he's our friend.

  Brett Morgen

  Thinking, Unique, Cobain

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Her voice trembled. "I’m so glad you’re mine. I won’t ever let you go." This time, it was Kaleb who said, "I know," devastated at being so wanted. "You are just a little possessive."

  Nalini Singh

  Voice, Littles, Letting You Go

  "Heart of Obsidian". Book by Nalini Singh, June 4, 2013.

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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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