Top 103 Possessive Quotes & Sayings

I am Moody... and a Cancerian to the boot. Even a small thing can change the entire mood, but I'm working on that. Besides, I'm also loyal and possessive.

I feel possessive about stories I write in Spanish and so I usually end up translating those into English myself.

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

As I was writing 'Insidious 3' I started to fall in love with the characters and the story. I became very possessive of it and I didn't want someone else to do it.

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

My wife is possessive and I like that

If we do not begin to practice the muscles of having a possessive investment in each other's oppressions, then we are in some serious trouble.

Women get possessive and cranky if they try to cruise with the Tooz.

I will always be possessive about creative independence - why is why I can't work with stars. I don't even let actors come to the monitor and see the shot.

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.

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.

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

I don't buy diamonds, I don't buy cars, but I enjoy travelling. I'm not a very possessive person as far as things go.

Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.

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.

You get very possessive about characters, you feel you can see it in your mind and you want to play it.

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

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.

Everybody feels protective and possessive about Kurt [Cobain] , and I think that can be attributed to his unique gift, an ability to touch our lives, and make us feel like he's our friend.

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

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

I am possessive and protective of my babies. Their happiness means more to me than anything else on this world. I love them more than I would ever have thought was possible.

I'm very emotional and possessive about all my films.

Ultimately, music is a possessive mistress.

Vampires. They wrote the book on possessive.

I am fiercely loyal and over-possessive, but I am learning to control my being possessive. I have become quite mature, though not as much as I would like to be, but have still improved tremendously. I can't hide my feelings, and it takes a lot of effort to be closed about things I feel for.

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.

I was too possessive of my cars to take a girl in them. I only drove around with friends.

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

I think the big problem is what I call "possessive monogamy." I think we should have a lot more freedom in our sexual lives. We should stop making monogamous commitments.

I'm not possessive, I'm caring... Once you realize a person doesn't want that much care, you automatically back off.

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.

You must not get too possessive, especially in our profession, where you know things aren't going to be easy. You can either drive the artist crazy, or you can help him or her grow.

I've come to the conclusion that a long personal relationship is next to impossible for me. Ultimately, music is a possessive mistress.

I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it.

You must control your anger and jealousy and possessive nature or, as you become more powerful and your will increases in strength, you will injure others.

Giving presents is one of the most possessive things we do, did you realize that? It's the way we keep a hold on other people. Plant ourselves in their lives.

The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.

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.

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

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.

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.

I hope you're never happy with anybody but me, and every face you look into, I hope you're haunted by me. Yes, I'm possessive and jealous, at least I speak honestly.

You have to be possessive about who you love

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

I admit that I am very possessive.

A lot of men are very possessive and they want to control you. But as you grow older, you attract people who are on your wavelength and who understand who you are.

Women can be as destructive, possessive and prone to rage as men, it turns out: but discovering that is what terrifies them, while exhilarating women.

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.

Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.

See, if there is zero possessiveness in a relationship, then one needs to put a reality check to see if things are really going fine. So, normally, everyone is a bit possessive, and so am I.

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."

I want to sympathize, I do, but the love triangle is just too delicious. The determined rock star and the possessive billionaire. Rawr.

I've come to the conclusion that a long, personal relationship is next to impossible for me. Ultimately, music is a possessive mistress.

It is a pity that...the majority of feminists and their allies have stuck to the dead ground of "Me Decade" possessive individualism, an ideology that has more in common than it admits with the prehistoric right, which it claims to oppose but has in fact encouraged.

So much of our conversation about love is possessive. "You are mine. And if you stop being mine, I will hate you." And so exploring non-possessive ideas of love and friendship is important. Which is not to say we should just break down monogamy, I'm not taking a simplistic point of view. But, in addition to these examples of possessive love that we already have so much of, let us also explore what examples of non-possessive love and affection mean.

Every woman is possessive though she may not show it.

I have a possessive female spirit. I was also told I have a demonic attachment. They make me sick. They make me agitated.

When you achieve something or someone, you don't want to lose the person. I love Malaika but I'm possessive about her.

Remember: Y'all is singular. All y'all is plural. All y'all's is plural possessive.