Quotes About Ownership

The land was then naturally broken up into small portions, which the proprietor cultivated for himself.

You must own nothing but yourself.

That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.

When I looked at her, she appeared to be a different person from the one I'd known... She had rewritten everything, our history together, our friendship. Now I was the girl who'd stolen Andres; the girl who'd lied to her about who I was. Therefore, she owned me nothing.

My father told us that our people had been slaves in the desert and because God had seen fit to set us free, none among us should ever own another man. It had been written that every man belonged to God and no one else. But did women belong to God or to the men of their family? They could not own property or businesses; only their husbands could have that honor.

This is what happens when you stay in one place for thirteen years, Anne says. First you own things. Then they own you.

Perhaps it's always true that when you wreck your own life you blame everyone else for your misfortune.

Whatever belonged to you once, will always belong to you.

Kill something, and it's yours forever.

What belonged to you once, will always belong to you.

What belonged to you once, will always belong to you. Be grateful if you have walked through the world with another's heart in your hand.

Il y avait dans leur regard, ainsi que dans le geste de Mr. Carpenter, un air de propriétaire. Comme si, après s'être approprié les trottoirs et les rues, ils s'apprêtaient maintenant à s'approprier les enfants qui y jouaient.

As soon as he is regarded as a possession for which one has a particular goal, as soon as one exerts control over him, his natural growth will be violently interrupted.

Porque uno está libre de depresiones cuando la autoestima arraiga en la autenticidad de los sentimientos propios y no en la posesión de determinadas cualidades.

I suppose that, after the passion of love, water rights have caused more trouble than anything else to the human species.

The heaving sickness past, her nausea gone, her bodily fluids replaced, she felt the lightness of being in the open space around her. Her walls the canyon's walls, she owned them not at all; her floor, the river beach. Her view, the heavens. It was, this freedom she was in, the longed-for cathedral of her dreams.

Perhaps this is simply the way it is with writers. It's when they don't see you that you matter. Because then you can belong to them in a way that permits them complete possession. You are determined by them. You are controlled. You are, generally speaking, exaggerated.

From paradise to paradise I go sweeping; collecting rocks & views; owning nothing but what I feel.

The men had decided they would be creator, and they went about dethroning woman systematically. To sell women and children for whom you no longer wished to assume responsibility or to sell those who were mentally infirm or who had in some way offended you, became a new tradition, an accepted way of life. As did the idea, later on, under the Mohametans, that a man could own many women, as he owned many cattle or hunting dogs.

We zijn schijnbaar verantwoordelijk voor alles wat we doen, hoe de reeks van gebeurtenissen ook is begonnen.

Her senior thesis was based on the notion that no one should be allowed to own more land than could be worked in a day, by hand.

Henry VIII owned more than eight hundred carpets

increasingly women are buying stuff for themselves with their own money. They buy their own toys.

You can own an elephant or a bank or power thereof but if there's no personal breast bliss all you own is a lot of dead atoms and ideas.