Possession Quotes (424 Quotes)


    Mathematics is not a book confined within a cover and bound between brazen clasps, whose contents it needs only patience to ransack it is not a mine, whose treasures may take long to reduce into possession, but which fill only a limited number of veins and lodes it is not a soil, whose fertility can be exhausted by the yield of successive harvests it is not a continent or an ocean, whose area can be mapped out and its contour defined it is limitless as that space which it finds too narrow for its aspirations its possibilities are as infinite as the worlds which are forever crowding in and multiplying upon the astronomer's gaze.

    I think there's been a lot of progress made and I can usually tell by where the ball ends up. Like does the ball end up in the right player's hand and what's going on in that possession.


    If it happens for more years down the road, I guess it would be considered a rivalry. But they're a great team, and every time we play them, it's going down to the wire, to the last possession. It was intense it was heated. It was at the highest level.



    We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well.


    We were obviously disappointed with the result as we had more of the possession, but created few chances. We were a bit out of sorts today, probably because the bumpy pitch did not suit our style of play.


    It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession . . .


    It wasn't like we had a total letdown or anything we just softened up enough to let him get going. And once he got going, it was very difficult to get any momentum back. Early in the third, we went under a couple of times on screens. He made one, and that really opened his eyes. He put one right in the middle. That's a lesson that needs to be learned -- playing against great players like that, just one possession can get them going. Obviously, if you look at the whole year, the four games we played them, he's averaged well over 30 points against us. We didn't get it done against him this year.



    . . . this life is a perpetual chequer-work of good and evil, pleasure and pain. When in possession of what we desire, we are only so much the nearer losing it and when at a distance from it, we live in expectation of enjoying it again.






    We have to work, we cant rest on any possession, we have to give maximum effort. We got some loose balls, we got on the offensive glass. We were able to convert on those hustle plays.

    When I say to our team to make sure everyone's on their A-game, it's really to be focused, and do the hard things. It's really about stealing a possession here or there because you're on that loose ball, or making sure we don't give that extra turnover because we need that extra possession that we didn't get with a rebound.

    said Rivers. ''They just know each other so well. They trust each other on every possession. Beating teams like that down the stretch of games is really tough to do because they've been through so many tough games and they know every nuance of each other. I think that's what makes them so good.

    They the four suspects continue to be under tactical interrogation to find out if there are other cells here in the metropolis or in others places in the Philippines and to find out whether they still have the capability of undertaking any kind of activity in case they still have some explosives in their possession.

    Every time you play Penn, you know it's going to be a hard-fought game. We've gone there three times since I've been here, and every time it has gone down to the last play or last possession. Our kids really love going there.



    How glorious and near to the angels is youth that is clean. This youth has joy unspeakable here and eternal happiness hereafter. Sexual purity is youth's most precious possession. It is the foundation of all righteousness.

    They're better at their game than we are at stopping it. Our defense was not great, but I thought our rotations were good. They continued to pass the ball, and consequently we had to guard them for 24 seconds per possession, and that can beat you down.

    You're not going to hold them scoreless and you won't shoot 100 percent. We did a really good job of being consistent with our approach. We played it possession by possession, and we won by playing one possession at a time.


    The practice for police officers here - they had a certain amount of discretion in the cases of possession of very small amounts of marijuana as to whether to issue a summons.






    We have had to redefine some roles. At the same time we wanted to make sure they didn't to do anything special. Every time they touch the basketball they have to make sure to make the right decision. It puts more pressure on every possession.



    We believe liquidity pressures, combined with a weak fundamental outlook could compel Dana to pursue debtor in possession financing and a Chapter 11 reorganization. Given restrictions on secured borrowing and pressure from its suppliers, Dana may not be successful in obtaining sufficient out of bankruptcy secured bank financing.



    Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself - a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.

    The second half, I told them they have to defend every possession. Don't rest on defense and don't get impatient on offense. If you get behind, you have to be more patient than if you're ahead. We made a conscious effort to work the ball inside, where we had an advantage. Hagen hit those three threes and everybody loosened up.





    We played a similar game (Monday) against Lexington where we had to come from behind. Sometimes, you get that last possession, and you make the most of it. And sometimes, it just doesn't fall for you.



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