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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.

    Running   Men   Long  
  • 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?

    Money   Passion   Jealous  
    Christina Stead (1948). “A little tea, a little chat”
  • Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like it had moved there on its own, just to get your attention. Sometimes what's inside will change your life, but sometimes you don't even have to read it. Sometimes it's a comfort just to have a book around. Many of these books haven't even had their spines cracked. 'Why do you buy books you don't even read?' our daughter asks us. That's like asking someone who lives alone why they bought a cat. For company, of course.

    Daughter   Book   Cat  
    Sarah Addison Allen (2008). “The Sugar Queen”, p.180, Bantam
  • 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.

  • If she know how strongly he felt, she'd have run out the door. He wasn't used to the possessive, or the savage joy she brought to his heart. It ate at his control, so he turned his attention to the music. He understood music.

    Running   Heart   Doors  
  • Can the plural possessive express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!

    Art   Feelings   Breathe  
    Laurie Halse Anderson (1999). “Speak”, Puffin
  • 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.

    Life   Lonely   Distance  
  • 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 (2012). “Black Heart”, p.7, Simon and Schuster
  • My family helped start [this country], we've been in political life ... since the 1690s, and I have a very possessive sense about this country.

  • 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.

    Source: www.aaa.si.edu
  • The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.

    Play   Creative   Life Is  
    Bertrand Russell, Richard A. Rempel (1995). “Pacifism and Revolution, 1916-18”, p.228, Psychology Press
  • Dain kept his gaze on his plate and concentrated on swallowing the morsel he'd just very nearly choked on. She was possessive... about him. The beautiful, mad creature - or blind and deaf creature, or whatever she was - coolly announced it as one might say, "Pass the salt cellar," without the smallest awareness that the earth had just tilted on its axis.

    Beautiful   Axes   Mad  
  • 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.

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

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

  • Mosca and Saracen shared, if not a friendship, at least the solidarity of the generally despised. Mosca assumed that Saracen had his reasons for his persecution of terriers and his possessive love of the malthouse roof. In turn, when Mosca had interrupted Saracen’s self-important nightly patrol and scooped him up, Saracen had assumed that she too had her reasons.

    Self   Important   Reason  
    Frances Hardinge (2011). “Fly By Night”, p.15, Pan Macmillan
  • 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.

  • They found the corpse in the closet of Alcide's apartment, and they hatched a plan to hide his remains." Eric sounded like that had been kind of cute of us. "My Sookie hid a corpse?" "I don't think you can be too sure about that possessive pronoun." "Where did you learn that term, Northman?" "I took 'English as a Second Language' at a community college in the seventies.

    Cute   College   Thinking  
    Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.737, Penguin
  • Can't you fall in love and not have a possessive relationship? I love someone and she loves me and we get married - that is all perfectly straightforward and simple, in that there is no conflict at all.

    "Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Bulletin 3", 1969.
  • I’ve told you before, I love like a madman,” he said. “Immoderate, jealous, possessive...I’m absolutely intolerable.

    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
  • 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.

    Mother   Art   Children  
  • A man doesn't wasnt to feel that a woman cares more for him than he cares for her. He doesn't want to feel owned, body and soul. It's that damned possessive attitude. This man is mine---he belongs to me! He wants to get away --- to get free. He wants to own his woman; he doesn't want her to own him.(Simon Boyle)

    Attitude   Men   Soul  
    Agatha Christie (1984). “Five complete Hercule Poirot novels”, Random House Value Pub
  • 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."

    "Heart of Obsidian". Book by Nalini Singh, June 4, 2013.
  • To those who care about punctuation, a sentence such as "Thank God its Friday" (without the apostrophe) rouses feelings not only of despair but of violence. The confusion of the possessive "its" (no apostrophe) with the contractive "it's" (with apostrophe) is an unequivocal signal of illiteracy and sets off a Pavlovian "kill" response in the average stickler.

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

    Kings   Editors   People  
  • I'm very emotional and possessive about all my films.

  • 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.

    Jealous   Mean   Night  
  • You’re not the only one who can get possessive. I’m very proprietary about what’s mine.

    Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.101, Penguin
  • I'm not possessive, I'm caring... Once you realize a person doesn't want that much care, you automatically back off.

    Caring   Care   Want  
    YouTube Chanel "zoom"/ "Salman Khan's Exclusive Interview with zoOm", www.youtube.com. August 23, 2011.
  • 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.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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