Quotes About Ownership

A woman and a dress, very often, fight against each other because they are not at the same place. Sometimes you see the woman moving the belt around. She is making the robe her own. She needs that. Otherwise, the dress doesn't exist.

Nothing is to be clung to as 'I,' 'me,' or 'mine.

I love the way you talk. You just let it flow from you as if you own all the words in the world. They're your personal property and you make them dance for you.

I don't think twice about picking up my dog's poop, but if another dog's poop is next to it, I think, 'Eww, dog poop!

Kids own nothing. Everything is either promised, borrowed, longed for or exaggerated.

I wanted all of her and resented other boys for wanting any part of her.

he only ran that house as a way to

My apartment rightfully belongs to the people of Lithuania!

I turned myself into a vinyl hawk, scouring record shops for out-of-print LPs, studying them with Talmudic intensity. The music I loved would all be dug out of studio archives and put onto CD within a few years, but then it was still scratchy and moldy and entirely my own.

Keep your focus and theirs not on checking tasks off of lists, but on finding root causes. Hold them accountable for personal behavior; don't let them indulge in excuses or blame the system. Show them how taking ownership of their work and taking ownership of their life are exactly the same thing.

You only get to keep what you refuse to let go off.

Antropocentrisme: de mens staat bovenaan in de evolutie, we zijn een geschikte maatstaf om het leven van andere dieren tegen af te zetten en de rechtmatige bezitter van al wat leeft.

Me encuentro entre el 95 por ciento de propietarios varones de perros que les habla (aunque no en el 87 por ciento que cree que su perro le contesta).

Menachem's problem was this: he had more money than there were things to buy. Menachem's solution was this: rather than buy more things, he would continue to buy the things he already owned

You only get to keep what you refuse to let go of

todas as terras que um súdito descobre, pertencem, de direito, à coroa.

Now, in this case, I, who am the right owner, lie under two great disadvantages: first, my lawyer, being practised almost from his cradle in defending falsehood, is quite out of his element when he would be an advocate for justice, which is an unnatural office he always attempts with great awkwardness, if not with ill-will.

Cuando poseemos algo y nos esclavizamos dependiendo de ese algo, ¿quién tiene a quién, Demián? ¿Quién tiene a quién?

Las personas creen que aman pero en realidad están enganchadas en su necesidad de poseer a otro. Como si dijeran: "Te amo mientras estés al lado mío, pero si te vas seguramente te odiaré".

Como todo poseedor de una biblioteca, Aureliano se sabía culpable de no conocerla hasta el fin

kitapl?k sahibi tüm insanlar gibi aurelianus da sahip olduÄŸu bütün kitaplar? hakk?n? vererek okumam?? olmakla suçlard? kendini.bu tart??ma ona kitapl???n?n raflar?nda ihmal edildikleri için ay?plar gibi duran birçok kitab? gözden geçirme f?rsat? verdi.(Çev.:Tomris Uyar)

No mostré a nadie mi tesoro. A la dicha de poseerlo se agregó el temor de que lo robaran

I leave nothing for nobody.

Un buen esclavo les costaba mil dólares y no duraba mucho. Algunos cometían la ingratitud de enfermarse y morir. Había que sacar de esos inseguros el mayor rendimiento. Por eso los tenían en los campos desde el primer sol hasta el último; por eso requerían de las fincas una cosecha anual de algodón o tabaco o azúcar.