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Quotes About Ownership

History is part of our birthright. We must claim it back and make it transform our lives
~ Ambeth R. Ocampo
The devil had not only acquired a monopoly of the good music and the good fun, but has of late acquired a controlling interest in the good writing.
~ Ambrose Bierce
There is no place, it seems, free from the intrusion of Man, who stretches out his hand for everything, even that which is in the air.
~ Ambrose Bierce
ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother of caution.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Breath belongs to Mehay. Ecl has no use for it.
~ Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
I'd always kept an eye on the house. I don't mean doing repairs, for as the house didn't belong to me that was not my place, but rather I'd keep watch over its decline. The changes come slowly, like watching a woman age: another line, the spread of crow's feet, age spots rising slowly to the surface. One day the face you know is ravaged.
~ Aminatta Forna
He blamed every fucker available excepting, of course, the one who was actually to blame, the one sitting in his saddle and getting colder, hungrier, and more lost with every unpleasant moment. 'Shit!' he roared at nothing.
~ Joe Abercrombie
She narrowed her eyes. "You lost the collar I gave you." It chafed. And I wasn't born to be a slave.
~ Joe Abercrombie
My father doesn't own me. Not even a percentage. If we marry, my loyalty will be to you. But you should know I am my own woman and do things my own way. I do not plan for that to change.
~ Joe Abercrombie
But we are not prone to nervousness. Perhaps we are the unpleasant things. Perhaps the acts are ours.
~ Joe Abercrombie
That's kings for you. The shit ideas are always someone else's.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Your brand is owned by your customers and anyone else who has an impression of your company. Your brand resides in the minds of your customers, not in your newspaper ads.
~ Joe Calloway
Please enter and take charge of my life," Janet responded,
~ Joe Dispenza
You'll never reach the top (you won't even get out of the basement) if all you ever do is take on the role of victim. Forget about blaming other people for your failures and shortcomings.
~ Joe Girard
When you think of the possessions you now own or the ones you hope to own—or when you're envying others for what they have—remember that the scriptures also warn that where your treasure is, there your heart is also.
~ Joe Girard
I fucking think they fucking belong the fuck to me, I can swear too, mate, I'm English. We swear without fear. The C-word? We say that too: cunt cunt cunty cunt cuntcunt. Go on, now. Get lost, you loudmouthed cunt.
~ Joe Hill
Humanity is worse than flies. If even one dried nugget of offal survives the flames, we'll be swarming all over it. Fighting about who owns it and selling the most fragrant chunks to the wealthy and the gullible.
~ Joe Hill
Humanity is worse than flies. If even one dried nugget of offal survives the flames, we'll be swarming all over it. Fighting about who owns it and selling the most fragrant chunks to the wealthy and the gullible. You're afraid it's the End Times because we're surrounded by death and ruin. Nurse Willowes, don't you know? Death and ruin is man's preferred ecosystem. Did
~ Joe Hill
If you can quit, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose.
~ Joe Konrath
The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little.
~ Joe Martin
Whitey still has them on his farm, only they ain't doing nothing there and they're getting tidbits tossed to them like dogs, and they take it and keep on keeping on and wanting Whitey to do more." "Maybe Whitey owes them." "Maybe he does, but you can be a cur or you get up off your ass and start seeing yourself as a person instead of an underdog that's got to take those scraps.
~ Joe R. Lansdale
Technically, I'm not stealing anything. Car or pussy. You don't own the car, and the pussy came with a nightcap." "Don't be vulgar.
~ Joe R. Lansdale
On his desk in the Oval Office was a sign that read, "The Buck Stops Here," and as Truman would later observe, "The President—whoever he is—has to decide. He can't pass the buck to anybody. No one else can do the deciding for him. That's his job.
~ Joe Scarborough
It's not your fault but it is your responsibility. —Dr. Joe Vitale
~ Joe Vitale