Quotes About Ownership

That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened—good, bad, or anywhere in between—it was always, if nothing else, all your own.

He moved through our house now with the ease of someone who no longer considered himself a guest, no sidestepping knickknacks and perching on the edges of furniture but walking easily across the floors as if he belonged there.

A territorial puppy, no matter the breed, almost always turns into a dangerous dog.

Help your puppy identify their belongings by keeping their toys and bones in one area. Identify each object as you play with it.

sitting for attention instead of jumping, and grabbing a bone when they're excited instead of little Casey's ponytail. The choice of how your puppy behaves is really up to you.

never could see what was so disgraceful about 'stiffening in a rented house,' as Eliot wrote. Do you croak better on your own property?

The job isn't done until you've blamed someone for the parts that went wrong.

c'était moi qui souffrais de troubles du caractère, pas lui. J'étais responsable de mon temps. C'était à moi seul de décider comment je voulais l'utiliser et l'organiser.

Control the land and you control those who live on it. Own the land and you own those who live on it.

You know,' I called, 'you're the one that's going to have to explain to Max how you got your blender back.' I'll tell him I astral-projected. Butt-head.

From now on, no one rewires my mind but me.

Tanr?'ya, onu bana ba???lamas? için dua edemiyorum; ama yine de o sanki bana aitmi? gibi geliyor. Tanr?'ya, onu bana vermesi için dua edemiyorum; çünkü o bir ba?kas?na ait. Ac?lar içinde kuruntulara dal?yorum; dü?ündüklerimi ka??da dökmeye kalk??sam, bir kar??tl?klar ilahisi ç?kar ortaya.

Beauty is indivisible: he who owns it Destroys it, rather than share a part of it.

Esa joya ha rodado por tantas manos que el baño de oro está bastante desgastado.

Ah!, lo que yo sé puede saberlo cualquiera -mi corazón no es más que mío.

Was du nicht verstehen kannst, kannst du nicht besitzen.

Her ?eyin kayna??, bütün gücü ve kuvveti, bütün sevinçleri ve ac?lar? veren kalptir. Benim bildiklerimi herkes bilir ama, bu kalp yaln?z benimdir.

Numai soarele are dreptul la petele sale.

Wer aber soll hausen in jenen Welten, wenn sie bewohnt sein sollten? ... Sind wir oder sie die Herren des Alls? ... Und ist dies alles dem Menschen gemacht?

If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those decisions, perhaps better decisions will result.

In 1955, amid the great fanfare that accompanied the initial release of the [polio] vaccine, Dr. Jonas Salk was asked who owned the patent. He replied, "Well, the people, I would say. Could you patent the sun?

The more that people share decisions affecting their working life, the more they are motivated to carry them out

The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.

Having access to the library was all well and good, but as a collector you had to own the book.