Quotes about Possession

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Sallust

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

Confucius

Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.

Robert Henri

We are certainly getting ahead; if I am Moses, then you are Joshua and will take possession of the promised land of psychiatry, which I shall only be able to glimpse from afar.

Sigmund Freud

As the game wore on, we played better and better. We kept possession of the ball and made them chase us in order to wear their team down.

Chris Petrucelli

We don't play to the scoreboard. Every possession counts, no matter what the score is or who we're playing. We're just trying to get better every day. By the looks of it, that's what we're doing.

Megan Myles

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

Cicero

The first half we had decent possession. Moffat stayed compact in the middle, so we had to attack from the flanks, and we did that the first half.

Rob Bohlmann

Possession is eleven points in the law.

Colley Cibber

We took it one game at a time, one possession at a time, one minute at a time. I compare it to chopping down a tree. You work at it and work at it and, eventually, it falls.

Kermit Carolina

Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.

Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Stevie hurt his back on the next possession.

Kelly Husted

I was very impressed with our defense the first half. We didn't take care of the ball as much as I would like us to. We had eight turnovers in the first quarter, but we limited it to 11 in the first half. When you have possession of the ball it makes it a lot easier to score.

Connie Allen

All of the possessions were big. It wasn't one possession that won or lost the game. Down the stretch we needed to make plays in order to win.

Shantia Grace

As good as we played against Johnson City, it was the opposite today, especially in the first half. We didn't sustain any possession, our spacing was off and we got back into kickball mode.

Jerry Mackey

We work on it in practice a lot. We do a lot of possession (drills) in training. We work on certain patterns, which they did well. They played a good game - exactly what we were hoping for.

John Planamenta

I thought that possession was one of our best of the night. The ball just bounced in a funny direction and they got a good look.

Chad Wintz

It was the same old story, we played very well and had a lot of possession but we couldn't finish. We just need one to go in off someone's bum.

Terry Harris

Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

Marcel Proust

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

Andrew Carnegie

When I first kind of stepped on the court, I got a little nervous, but about a possession-and-a-half later I kind of got into the flow of the game and forgot about it.

Ryan Crawford

We don't know who will lease these gates. The Delta bankruptcy hearing has not occurred. We don't have those gates in our possession yet.

Carolyn Fennell

The idea was to limit them to one possession per minute. I don?t like to play that way, but they?re so much bigger than us that we had to slow things down to have a chance.

Bill Cowell

They possessed the ball nicely. We had a lot of possession and we had a lot of through balls. We just couldn't capitalize and finish the shots.

Jeff Lenherr

To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.

Peter Tosh

There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.

Harriet Martineau

The report I have in my possession shows that the wheels only needed alignment.

Carl Newman

They had information that he was in possession of a weapon, ... He did not have a weapon. He had money, and it was counterfeit bills.

Patrick Mcmahon

It's difficult for any team to do. You can't be down 20 points in the second half and expect to get back in the game. I thought we did a good job with that. We had to get a stop every possession and get a basket every possession basically. We can't dig ourselves into a hole like that and expect to win.

Ben Luber

We didn't start the match well. We tried to make things too complicated for ourselves and lost possession too often. In the second half, we played better. I would like to have seen another goal.

Matthias Sammer

If you mess up defensively, even one possession, Coach might take you out of the game. He won't do that if you take a bad shot.

Ben Kenyon

I've never had a better defensive team in all the years I've coached. They get after it and play hard every possession.

Tom Penders

It is really important to have those tools in your possession if you lose your child.

Cynthia Bartlett

Do not help the quick moneymakers who have delusions about taking possession of classics by smearing them with paint.

Frank Capra

Before I left to go to the NBA, I said, (Bennett) is one of the five guys I'd never schedule. It's how he gets guys to play. Every possession is important. Their transition defense is as good as any in the country.

Tim Floyd

What a world of difference. The kid just took over the game. We had possession of the game, controlled the tempo of the game and he made some beautiful passes to our forwards.

Armando Padilla

They had in their possession uniforms similar to the company that transports money around Montreal. [Police] found a big amount of money. They found a fake gun. They found ammunition, real ammunition, inside the house.

Raphael Bergeron

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fi.

Mary Webb

Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.

Vida D. Scudder

For our first game, we got a little bit of the rust off. We had decent possession but it was really hard against the wind.

Scott Boice

All the suites are a little different. The suites on the 500 level have seats in the front and the 700 level is the most prized possession. There are only four suites on that level.

John Guthrie

When I looked on the court last year, about every possession I was seeing four freshmen. We'll be the most experienced sophomore class in the Big Ten. Finally, we have some experience. Finally, now we have some carry-over in knowledge.

Cheryl Burnett

I think we did a great job of taking care of the ball, working the possession.

Lavonda Wagner

. . . our wayward kicking let us down, we gave away too much possession rather than taking the ball to ground and going again.

Paul Mitchell

We've had a consistent pattern with our focus on good possession soccer. ... I thought we put together 70 minutes of consistent soccer, a really good group effort.

Rob Bohlmann

He played a phenomenal game. He plays very hard every possession.

Kevin Dixon

Possession-wise, I would say it was like 50-50. They put their opportunities away, and we did not.

Nick Haynes

When you have Southside on your jersey, you expect to win. It's a game that we look at as a one or two possession game.

Preston Early

We are in possession of one of the key ingredients of a potential solution to the pandemic threat.

Howard Pien

It was very disappointing, ... It was also perplexing that we had so much of the domination, possession and territory and could not make them tell.

John Rees

We don't agree on everything here. Love is not sex, and it is not possession of another person, either. Love should set you free. But with most people I see, love is a constricting, confining force.

Marc Collins

It's a fundamental aspect of gun control. It would, for example, allow checks to be made on someone who comes to the attention of the police for gun possession in one area of the country and then moves to another area.

Rebecca Peters

We had some good moments in the game, but that's not playing the game for the full 40 minutes like we needed to. You give up 16 turnovers to their (season-low) five, and that's just too much of a difference in a grind-it-out, possession-type game like this.

Kirk Speraw

It was just a dog fight every possession. It wasn't pretty. It was a real defensive battle. In the end, I'm just glad we came out on top.

Deb Patterson

We really didn't have any killer instinct tonight. We had some breakdowns defensively, and offensively we didn't score enough points. Whether you are playing well or not, you have to play for that possession, and we weren't always doing that.

Steve Manguso

A very good possession receiver that will catch anything he can get a hand on. A big receiver that will do damage on fades and isolations.

Delashaun Dean

A pedestrian is a man in danger of his life. A walker is a man in possession of his soul.

David Mccord

So far, 82 persons have been arrested and detained. Their offences include arson, grievous assault on census officials and unlawful possession of firearms.

Haz Iwendi

We have to value possession of the ball. At least we should get a shot off instead of just giving the ball to the other team.

Demetrius Scott

When you play this slow tempo kind of game, every possession counts and any turnover is very costly. But towards the end, we made them come out on defense and beat them at their own game.

Mike Francis

That was a stolen vehicle and the individuals involved had outstanding narcotics warrants and were found to be in possession (of narcotics) as well.

B.d. Evans

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

Pliny the Younger

If something is found that needs to be fixed in the building, it will push our date back. However, we will do whatever it takes to fix those items and be in compliance with the city. I hope to have everything completed and gain possession over the building at least by Feb. 1.

Kerry Cowart

(Montpelier) controlled possession a lot of the game, definitely.

Tim Ziegler

The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it.

Mark Twain

The law now is internally inconsistent. It's illegal to purchase, it's illegal to sell (to youths) ... but there's no penalty for (youth) possession.

Tom Bruno

We had a lot of possession, but it wasn't dangerous. I thought (Mountain View) was very good. They played very aggressive defense, sending three and four guys to the ball.

Dave Woolley

It confirms what the Societe has said all along, which is that the Societe is the owner of the copyright and that any reproduction or even possession of plasters, molds and bronzes is a copyright violation.

Richard Morris

We withstood it. Possession turned out to be the key in the end.

Christine Labombard

The reason we're winning is we're making foul shots, limiting our fouls and defending every [opposing] possession.

Bill Swan

I'll take an 80-yard run, but we did have a lot of possession ... moving the ball down (field). We got some penalties that set us back, but in some cases we were able to overcome those. I'm proud of our kids.

Bob Warren

Scoring on that first possession was key because of the emotion that goes into this game.

Bob Biggs

The winds were pretty strong to fish Possession Bar, but you could have fished at places like Point No Point.

Gary Krein

You never know until the time runs off the clock. We played good defense as if there was another possession left in the game, he was just fortunate enough to make the shot.

Jamaal Magloire

This case is about the obligation the agency has to do a background check on someone with access to your home and access to the most cherished possession in the home, namely children. In a society that does background checks on bus drivers and teachers, the nanny industry seems to have slipped behind some dark corner.

Bernard Clair

Elgin is a great team and that last possession was a battle down to zero.

Randy Kortokrax

When a game comes down to the final possession, then it's on me. I feel like we let the community down. This game came down to one or two possessions that we didn't execute.

Travis Hannah

When they say 'No. 1 receiver in the nation,' that's the truth. He can be a possession receiver. The good thing is we've got a couple of other freshmen you guys don't know about yet.

Alan Zemaitis

Jermaine Gaines pled guilty to illegal possession of firearm and was sent to five years without parole by (Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Lynn) Stewart.

Margaret Burns

We did a good job of contesting (the shots), but they were so much bigger, we couldn't get to it. Once (the ball) got down to waist level, we had the possession arrow. When it got down on the floor our football guys recovered the fumble.

Kyle Krueger

They're a great offensive team. We just knew that every possession we were going to have to play hard defense. We thought we were talented enough to beat them.

Alan Fox

We lost one goal from a corner then another when we lost possession at a free-kick. We need to show more composure in such situations.

Gordon Dalziel

We are having trouble scoring goals and that is how these games are determined. We had much more possession and created chances, we just weren't putting them away.

Rich Brands

It's important that we keep the ball. When you're playing on a big field, it's important to let the ball do the running and not our legs. That's when possession becomes key. Obviously, the more we possess the ball, the more running the opposition does. So on the field, keeping the ball is pretty key.

Steve Nicol

The defense set the tone in the second half. The offense got possession on the George 9 and 35 yard lines.

Fred Hartsfield

We are 5-9 in games decided by five points or less. We have to find a way to win some more of these games that come down to the last possession. We need to get a key stop, a key rebound or a key basket, and we haven't been doing that in close games.

Don Kloth

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

Chanakya

We've been beaten around. We still have to learn to compete every possession for 40 minutes.

Bill Herrion

I was thinking attack the rim, get a bucket and to foul a bad free throw shooter and play by possession. I felt I got fouled, it was a good no-call. You can't call a foul in that situation.

Quincy Douby

It seemed like every possession the ball was in Allen Iverson's hands and they were just creating with Chris Webber. It was a two-man game.

Drew Gooden

Co-operation means full co-operation with the government, which is that he intends to appear when called upon and testify truthfully to all facts that are in his possession.

Anton Valukas

We were slow in our possession and slow in our transition. (Benicia) played so well to keep themselves in the game.

Michael Strickland

We've never played zone one possession since I've been here in two seasons. Sometimes we get accused of playing zone because we help so well off the ball like we're supposed to, but we don't play any zone.

Jody Grant

I thought when we executed well, we got some great first attempts. ... There were a couple of breakdowns (and) in a game like this you can't have the breakdowns. You have to try to win every possession.

Paul Hewitt

It is stolen property, and anyone in possession of that will be dealt with severely.

Mike Russo

Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.

Julia Ward Howe

It's still a man's game out there. You should still have to fight for possession on the ice.

Richard Matvichuk

We just wanted to keep possession of the ball through both overtimes so that we had the ball in the final seconds.

Wendy Stalder

OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedness, but possession; it meant 'own,' and in the minds of debtors there is still a good deal of confusion between assets and liabilities.

Ambrose Bierce

Our goal was to give them one shot per possession. We did a good job of that. They got some points in the paint, but we took away the perimeter game.

Greg Amundson