Temporary Possession Quotes

When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the end their pride will not agree to let it go, but their acquisition is not good for them if it stays in their hands. In the same way an identical desire drives lovers to act and not to act.

I am going to leave this car as property of the nation. But meanwhile I shall use it myself.

I recommend … the expediency of authorizing the Executive to take temporary possession of any part of parts of said territory [Florida]….

Actually no person owns anything. All belongs to God, but while man is on earth he has the God-given right of possession.

You own a Tic Tac. Gum is just borrowed. - Esther

Our time on earth and our energy, intelligence, opportunities, relationships, and resources are all gifts from God that he has entrusted to our care and management. We are stewards of whatever God gives us. This concept of stewardship begins with the recognition that God is the owner of everything and everyone on earth. ... We never actually own anything during our brief stay on earth. God just loans the earth to us while we're here. It was God's property before you arrived, and God will loan it to someone else after you die.

For all men have but a little while to live and none knows his fate thereafter. So that a man possesses nothing certainly save a brief loan of his body: and yet the body of man is capable of much curious pleasure.

The truth is, you leave this world with nothing. What you are is a temporary administrator, and you must administer well... the wealth in your care, and generate more. The surplus can be used to do many things for people.

You never really own a diamond. You just get to keep it for a while before it begins a new journey with someone else.

Anything we have, we are only borrowing. Anything. Any time.

I've never thought of my jewelry as trophies. I'm here to take care of it and to love it, for we are only temporary custodians of beauty.

Nothing's a gift, it's all on loan

I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.

On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's part of what it takes to get the job done. Deeper down, we know it's all on loan.

Kids own nothing. Everything is either promised, borrowed, longed for or exaggerated.

It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed but not bought. It may be used but not owned. We are tenants, not possessors, lovers and not masters.

I played the guitar in ninth grade. My sister's friend went on a semester abroad, and she left the guitar at our house for nine months.

I’m not stealing it. We’re stranded. This is called borrowing.” “This is called you’re crazy.

Everything we own really belongs to God, we are just renting it, and when we die those things are going to become somebody else's possessions.