Quotes About Ownership

One broken window, left unrepaired for any substantial length of time, instills in the inhabitants of the building a sense of abandonment—a sense that the powers that be don't care about the building. So another window gets broken. People start littering. Graffiti appears. Serious structural damage begins. In a relatively short span of time, the building becomes damaged beyond the owner's desire to fix it, and the sense of abandonment becomes reality.

I wanted to possess all the books I had already read, as well as all those I had not - every book in the whole wide world, in other words.

Man does and is dressed to do so, his skin is his own business. He is artful, the creation of culture. Woman is; and is, therefore, fully dressed in no clothes at all, her skin is common property.

For now my skin was my sole capital in the world and today I'd make my first investment.

In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force.

Que yo y otras muchas mujeres vayamos buscando heroínas de cuento de hadas en los libros es otra versión del mismo proceso: deseo validar mi reivindicación a poseer una parte equitativa del futuro, y expreso para ello la exigencia de que me concedan la parte del pasado que me corresponde.

Put his stamp on me?"  Dee frowned.  "It was a kiss, not a stamp.  Jesus, do I have 'Ryder's Property' stamped on my forehead?" "Check your throat.  Apparently he had his tongue down it, so it's probably there.

Has de dejar de quejarte y de echarte la culpa a ti, al destino y a terceros. Has de tomar de una vez los hechos como tales y no como cambios infinitamente lamentables. Porque tan lamentables no son.

Marcia was aghast. "He has shoes like mine? Well, that does it, we'll have to get rid of him." She smiled at Tod. "Only one of us can wear these shoes. And that is me.

And my mother's afternoon escapes from the house that she could not quite consider her own were an indication that loneliness can be felt even in the most ideal of circumstances.

and, after satisfying himself that the business was being looked after, disappeared again into the busy street. They suspected that their days in Hilltop Road were numbered, that Ostrovski would dispossess

Give me a business that's family-owned and operated anytime. And I'm talking about a local family, not one that lives in Arkansas.

It seemed to Vera now that the beauty of the eggs, the order, the strange friendships, had been all that had held him together through the depression following her mother's death. Or maybe he'd just been a selfish bastard, with a weird passion for collecting and owning things that would have been better left in the wild.

The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific.

There was no such thing as child abuse. Parents owned their children. They could do whatever they wanted.

Whatever may be thought of my art, it is my own; and I would rather possess a freehold, though but a cottage, than live in a palace belonging to another.

If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who would have guns would be the bad guys. Even a pacifist would get violent if someone were trying to kill him or her. You would fight for your life, whatever your beliefs.

The difference with football is you're out on the pitch, you feel as though you can do something about it, or score a goal. But when that horse goes down to post as an owner you have no involvement whatsoever. It's a lonely old place in the stand. It's just down to man and beast.

People feel very strongly about the Second Amendment. Their rights. And so if we can find, agree on, for example, that we should have responsible gun ownership just like we have responsible use of automobiles. Nobody wants someone getting behind the wheel that shouldn't be there. And the same is true with guns.

Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.

Usually, new producers and writers want to put their stamp on a show. They don't want to continue what's working. They want to reinvent the wheel. It's an ego thing.

They are not your players, they are loaned from the club. You just wheel them out for a game for England.

My dad couldn't change a wheel. But I bought my first car when I was 16.

Me and a few of my rowdy friends stole the wheels and tires off a brand-new limited-edition Lincoln Mark III that my manager, Merle Kilgore, had just bought. We left it up on blocks and then we sold his own wheels and tires back to him the next day.