Property Possessions Quotes

#1. If you are living in the electrified wireless west, then you are living a very abnormal lifestyle that your genetics has no adaptation to.

Steven Magee

#2. The idea that property has overcome our personalities is the single reason we'll miss the best part of our lives. It's people, not possessions that make our lives worth living.

Brian Krans

#3. Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.

Samuel Smiles

#4. The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#5. I look for myself but find no one. I belong to the chrysanthemum hour of bright flowers placed in tall vases. I should make an ornament of my soul.

Fernando Pessoa

#6. The liberator who destroys my property is fighting to save my spirit. The teacher who clears all possessions from my path will set me free.

Chuck Palahniuk

#7. Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

James Madison

#8. Yes, well... I suppose the man who owns nothing is free."
Gunnulf replied, "A man's possessions own him more than he owns them.

Sigrid Undset

#9. Our material possessions, like our joys, are enhanced in value by being shared. Hoarded and unimproved property can only afford satisfaction to a miser.

George D. Prentice

#10. The possessions of the rich are stolen property.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

#11. The worst question ever asked, is the one which is never asked.

Krishna Saagar

#12. I, sort of, got into comedy accidentally, and it got bigger than I wanted it to.

Albert Brooks

#13. We are living in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he contributes to the welfare of the state. His property is only his as the state does not need it. He must hold his life and his possessions at the call of the state.

Bernard Baruch

#14. The greater the number of owners, the less the respect for common property. People are much more careful of their personal possessions than of those owned communally; they exercise care over common property only in so far as they are personally affected.

Aristotle.

#15. What a man has: that is, property and possessions of every kind.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#16. Success may be measured by things (prosperity, property, positions, possessions) but GREATNESS (Leadership) can only be measured by PEOPLE.

Fela Durotoye

#17. Fear is the assassin of dreams

Philip McKernan

#18. Character is property. It is the noblest of possessions.

Samuel Smiles

#19. We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.8

John Eldredge

#20. They have real glasses and real wine of three kinds, namely, blackthorn wine, berberris wine, and cowslip wine,

J.M. Barrie

#21. Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance?

Thomas Clarkson

#22. Up to that point I never really knew what my character would be expected to do, and prior to accepting the job I had actually turned down the role three times before finally giving in.

Gil Gerard

#23. Property-owners are the most energetic flag-waggers and patriots in every country, but only so long as they enjoy their possessions: to safeguard those they desert God, King and Country in a twinkling.

C.L.R. James

#24. Thou should eat to live; not live to eat.

Socrates

#25. In what you have called your nonbarbarian societies, children (and wives, and husbands, for that matter) are thought of as property, as personal possessions, and child-bearers must therefore become child-raisers, because they must take care of what they "own.

Neale Donald Walsch