Quotes About Ownership

Jaybird don't rob his own nes'.

Somehow, when ownership interests are divided into shares that bounce around with Mr. Market's moods, individuals and professionals start to think about and measure risk in strange ways. When short-term thinking and overly complicated statistics get involved, owning many companies that you know very little about starts to sound safer than owning stakes in five to eight companies that have good businesses, predictable futures, and bargain prices.

The honor that knowledge will give us will be entirely ours, and it will not be taken from us by the thief 's skill . . . or by the passage of time."24 Nowhere

God is going to release you from leasing into owning.

The Nile is mine; I made it

There is nothing more definite than this, that "I of my own self can do nothing"; that I of my own self am nothing; that I of my own self have nothing. "The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof.

The sub has the upper hand in a true Master and sub relationship, Thomas. Always. I can possess you only as long as you want to belong to me.

You won't do this anymore because I'm telling you that you won't. You belong to someone now. Me. And I take care of you, even if your greatest danger comes from yourself.

I will bring you to utter stillness, because you will simply be mine. I will take your soul, chain it to me, and you will never fear anything again.

She didn't belong to anyone, though her lovers, temporary though they were, belonged to her for all time.

If I have too much luggage, too much property, too many material goods, that makes me worry I have to defend this stuff—then in that case I will not have time left to take care of the things I really love, and then I lose my freedom.

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it has to begin with a bit of introspection, with a bit of understanding ourselves." Yes, he says, the environment changed: "You [the average tech user] didn't make the iPhone. It's not your fault. I never said it's your fault. I'm saying it's your responsibility. This stuff isn't going away. In some form or other, it's here to stay. What choice do we have? We have to adapt. That's our only option.

Ah, o que eu sei, toda a gente o pode saber! Mas o meu coração só a mim pertence…

I sit here like a monarch on his throne I've got my sceptre, but no crown to call my own -Mephistopheles

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Ayr?ca yüre?imi de?il, akl?m? ve yeteneklerimi be?eniyor, oysa her ?eyin kayna?? yürektir: tüm gücün, tüm mutlulu?un, tüm kederin. Ah, benim bildiklerimi herkes bilebilir - ama yüre?imdir yaln?zca bana ait olan.

Rich people believe 'I create my life.' Poor people believe 'Life happens to me.'

The hardest thing is remembering that you have some complicity in the things that happen to you in your life.

I struggle with deciding when to answer or ignore the constant speculation about my private life, because I feel like that doesn't belong to anybody but me.

The sooner you learn it's on you to make life interesting, the better off you'll be.

In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity or you can pick yourself up and say listen, I have to be responsible for myself.

No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.

A dog, for me, it's not just getting a dog. I couldn't leave him at home. I'm looking for a life partner and I'm not ready. I'm not emotionally mature enough.