Kristen Stewart Quotes

If something is mine, then I want to keep it.

Look out for Number One. If you don't, no one else will.

The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man’s nature.

I keep what's mine, and I do not share.

Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.

I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.

Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice.

Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.

The more we have the less we own.

I'm like a little kid that has a basketball and don't want nobody else to play with it. "It's mine, it's mine, and it's mine!" When it comes to sneakers.

It all depends on whether you have things, or they have you.

I felt I was owned by possessions.

There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.

The black shadow cares for itself, not for you.

Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.

Sometimes you have to keep things very close to your own chest in your life, or this life.

I don't want to be owned by anyone.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.

It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.