Quotes About Ownership

If the Indian people want stories written about themselves, how they want them told, they are going to have to make them, they're going to have to finance them. If you let Hollywood do it, Hollywood is going to get it wrong most of the time.

I've got two old Volvos, two old Subarus, and an old Ford Ranger. If you've got an old car, you've gotta have at least several old cars, 'cause one's always gonna be in the garage.

The more possessions you have, the more you have to make room for, take care of, protect, sometimes insure, and sometimes worry about losing them to theft, fire, or other catastrophes. Yet when you start to get rid of your unneeded possessions, you can rejoice in a newfound freedom, for you are no longer "owned" by all your possessions.

You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.

To possess possessions, a man will "sell himself" to have what another has, but it never dawns on him ~ that the more he gets, the less he keeps of himself.

It boils down to this: you aren't allowed to tell them what their problem is, and in return, they aren't allowed to tell you what to build. They own the problem, you own the solution.

Pick up your clothes. I am not your maid. How do I know this? A maid cannot kill you with a tube sock. I can.

I didn't lose my mind, it was mine to give away

I didnt loose my mind, it was mine to give away

Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them.

In short, there is no reason to believe that the authors of the Second Amendment thought it had anything to do with private ownership of arms or the personal use of guns, such as hunting or defense of the home.

Lending war equipment is a good deal like lending chewing gum. You don't want it back.

There are no victims, only volunteers.

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

The dog barking at you from behind his master's fence acts for a motive indistinguishable from that of his master when the fence was built.

The joy is not in experiencing a scarce commodity but in possessing it.

If the answer is that we want it primarily for the purpose of owning it, then we should use its availability to help gauge how much we want to spend for it. However, if the answer is that we want it primarily for its function (that is, we want something good to drive, drink, eat, etc.), then we must remember that the item under consideration will function equally well whether scarce or plentiful. Quite simply, we need to recall that the scarce cookies didn't taste any better.

President Woodrow Wilson explained the dangerous connection between excessive economic and political power in similar terms, in his 1913 book, The New Freedom: "I do not expect to see monopoly restrain itself. If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.

Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent.

[T]he way he treats his body, you'd think he was renting.

It is through willingness and acceptance, through surrender, trust, and faith, that we can begin to own the state of Grace which is our True condition.

[The rich] are indeed rather possessed by their money than possessors.

Why don´t you fix bad code when you see it? Your first reaction upon seeing a messy function is ´This is a mess, it needs to be cleaned' . Your second reaction is ´I'm not touching it!´. Beacuse you know that if you touch it you risk breaking it; and if you break it; it becomes yours

In general output arguments should be avoided. If your function must change the state of something, have it change the state of its owning object.