Quotes About Ownership

Jean Jacques Rousseau, in a green-spined hardcover that's right over there, one shelf away, JC179.R, said: You are lost, if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong equally to us all, and the earth itself to nobody!

Your problem, Werner," says Frederick, "is that you still believe you own your life.

We are all just tenants here. Even the one thing we believe is ours—the time we're given on earth—does that belong to us?

Your problem, Werner," says Frederick, "is that you still believe you own your life.

A failure is not one who fails, a failure is one who blames others for their own failure.

To enjoy something fully, you had to own it.

You have to take responsibility for who you are

To enjoy something fully, you had to own it. And if you couldn't buy it, then you would have to steal it.

Don't be sorry. Our lives don't belong to us, so we can't complain if they're taken away.

You write about me and I will make sure that all hell comes in your direction. I have my life. I have my experiences. And you have no right at all to appropriate my story, turn me into a cultural stereotype, simply to embellish your own view of the world.

they would have learned that this plane belonged to a photographic company based in Jamaica

Harriet distorted everything. It was a sort of ownership. She made the entire world her own...

Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.

If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.

I was an online service provider. It's not my job to police what people are uploading. It's the job of the content owners, and the law is very clear. If you create content, and you want to protect your copyrights, you have to do the work.

If you are a certain kind of hands-on learner and have been in a writers room and know how scripts get made, and you know what pre-production is, then mostly it's making sure the actors get what they need, and you are providing creative oversight while allowing room for everyone else to own the material, too.

'Would I mind if someone wrote a sequel to one of my books?' I asked myself, and I decided that I wouldn't, providing that the writer was respectful, had read my book first, and wasn't drunk when doing it.

I own full responsibility for providing for my children.

I'm not attacking the idea that people live in conglomerations of houses in proximity to one another, sharing the same water mains and the same newspaper delivery boy and so forth. I'm not objecting to that. That could happen with or without homeownership.

People feel a great deal of their wealth or lack thereof in their home value. Despite the fact they're living there and not going to sell it per se, it does have a big psychological effect.

Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.

I didnt even own my own set of darts until 2012 when my mate started a team in the pub and wed just play on a Friday night.

I enjoy not being a public company.

When you're used to being in the public eye, if you've got a disease, you've got to own up to it. It's about being about it, not running from it.