Possessive Quotes - Page 2

• To the newcomer to the south, hearing that a coworker plans a weekend visit to 'mama and them's' (the correct plural possessive, don'tchaknow), might make him think that mama has been left alone either throught an act of scoundreldom involving the town's resident hoochie-mama (an altogether different kind of mama) or Daddy's untimely demise.

  Celia Rivenbark

  Weekend, Thinking, Daddy

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• I'm not jealous, and I'm not possessive, and I'm not controlling.

  Gary Busey

  Jealous, Not Jealous

  "Q+A: The Men of Celebrity Wife Swap". Interview with Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. January 3, 2012.

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• There can be no doubt that this possessive clinging to things is one of the most harmful habits in the [christian] life. Because it is so natural, it is rarely recognized for the evil that it is. But its outworkings are tragic.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Evil, Doubt

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• I've learned that love is not possessive and I've learned that love won't wait. Now I've learned that love needs expression, but I learned too late.

  Michael Jackson

  Love, Expression, Waiting

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• The attitude and reactions of artists toward their art children reveal an attitude similar to that which mothers in general possess toward their children. There is the same sensitivity to any criticism, the same possessive pride.

  Beatrice M. Hinkle

  Mother, Art, Children

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• Ultimately, music is a possessive mistress.

  Leonard Slatkin

  Mistress, Music Is

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

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• The narcissistic, the domineering, the possessive woman can succeed in being a "loving" mother as long as the child is small. Only the really loving woman, the woman who is happier in giving than in taking, who is firmly rooted in her own existence, can be a loving mother when the child is in the process of separation.

  Erich Fromm

  Mother, Children, Long

  Erich Fromm (2000). “The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition”, p.47, A&C Black

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• Here's a strange fact: murder a man, and you feel responsible for his life - ''possessive'', even. You know more about him than his father and mother; they knew his fetus, but you know his corpse. Only you can complete the story of his life, only you know why his body has to be pushed into the fire before its time, and why his toes curl up and fight for another hour on earth.

  Aravind Adiga

  Mother, Father, Fighting

  "The White Tiger". Book by Aravind Adiga, 2008.

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• Money is a jealous mistress If you want money you must want only money. ... I must tell you the one secret of life, there is only one: everything is a jealous mistress, everything is terribly possessive, and, by God, we want to be terribly possessed if we want to get somewhere - and we want to be terribly possessed - anyhow; or what is life?

  Christina Stead

  Money, Passion, Jealous

  Christina Stead (1948). “A little tea, a little chat”

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• Who has not watched a mother stroke her child's cheek or kiss her child in a certain way and felt a nervous shudder at the possessive outrage done to a free solitary human soul?

  John Cowper Powys

  Family, Mother, Children

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• An adult woman should not be so possessive of her own birthday that she begrudges her friends the chance to get married on the same day.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Adults, Chance, Married

  "Die, Bundle of Twigs!". Live chat, www.slate.com. January 5, 2016.

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• Film is not like a book; it's not a writer's baby at all. So many people have put in their talent, by that time that you feel grateful for what they've done, you don't feel possessive about it in any way.

  Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

  Baby, Book, Grateful

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• Even if I sometimes have some somewhat negative thoughts, for instance, if I see them in somebody else's movie, I feel jealous and possessive.

  Christophe Honore

  Jealous, Negative, Sometimes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The only people who should use the possessive 'we' are kings, newspaper editors, and persons with tapeworms.

  Mark Twain

  Kings, Editors, People

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• Not all animal brides are doomed. Not all men are greedy or violent or possessive.

  Delia Sherman

  Animal, Men, Greedy

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• I am very easy. I like to have my work out. I am not restrictive about any of that. It is the collectors that are possessive, not me, not me.

  Robert Barry

  Work Out, Easy, Collectors

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• The only problems I sometimes have is if I ask for a piece for a group show, if I ask for a piece - I would like to put it into a show, sometimes the collectors get possessive about it and don't want to let something happen. Say you get full credit, you know. You give them your name, the catalog and it always enhances the value of the piece, you know, the more shows it is in, blah, blah, blah.

  Robert Barry

  Names, Giving, Groups

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• It is essential that our love be liberating, not possessive. We must at all times give those we love the freedom to be themselves. Love affirms the other as other. It does not possess and manipulate another as mine.

  John Powell

  Love Is, Giving, Self Love

  John Powell (1989). “Through Seasons of the Heart”, Thomas More Association

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• If love exists between two persons, it is blessed. If love does not exist between two persons, then all your laws put together cannot bridge them. Then they exist separate, then they exist apart, then they exist in conflict, then they exist always in war. And they create all kinds of trouble for each other. They are nasty to each other, nagging to each other, possessive of each other, violent, oppressive, dominating, dictatorial.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, War, Blessed

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• If you see things as in eternity, you are less a prey to the pain of their passing, and so you can learn the more easily not to clutch at them as they pass... you learn to be reverent and not proudly possessive.

  Gerald Vann

  Faith, Pain, Inspiration

  Gerald Vann (1997). “The Seven Sweet Blessings of Christ: And How to Make Them Yours”, Sophia Inst Press

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• Mothers sometimes are overly possessive, but not all children allow themselves to be possessed.

  Robert Bloch

  Mother, Children, Sometimes

  Robert Bloch (2010). “Psycho: A Novel”, p.7, The Overlook Press

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• Mine. The language of love is like that, possessive. That should be the first warning that it's not going to encourage anyone's betterment.

  Holly Black

  Love Is, Language Of Love, Warning

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• My vision of a real humanity is of pure individuals relating to each other, but not tied in any relationship. They will be loving to each other, but not being possessive of each other. They will be sharing with each other all their joys and all their blessings, but never even in their dreams thinking of dominating, thinking of enslaving the other person.

  Rajneesh

  Relationship, Dream, Real

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• Learn to lead in a nourishing manner.
  Learn to lead without being possessive.
  Learn to be helpful without taking the credit.
  Learn to lead without coercion.

  Laozi

  Volunteer, Credit, Coercion

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• I’ve told you before, I love like a madman,” he said. “Immoderate, jealous, possessive...I’m absolutely intolerable.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Jealous, Said, Madmen

  Lisa Kleypas (2013). “The Hathaways Complete Series: Mine Till Midnight, Seduce Me at Sunrise, Tempt Me at Twilight, Married by Morning, and Love in the Afternoon”, p.1414, Macmillan

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