Quotes About Ownership

Père Goriot's previous owner, Brian Kennedy, had systematically underlined what seemed to be the most meaningless and disconnected sentences in the whole book. Thank God I wasn't in love with Brian Kennedy, and didn't feel any mania to decipher his thoughts.

Loss, this was what he felt. Loss and deprivation. One man owns, another man craves - the craving far more passionate than the dull pleasures of ownership. How galling not to have when you were the type who deserved to have - yes, deserved.

I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Books are unconvertible assets, to be passed on only to those who possess them already.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten."

Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.

'Men have forgotten this truth ' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'

Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite

Its immoral to steal, but you can take things.

But what does he want my heart for?" the little queen asked. "He just wants to own it," replied the sea lion. "That is enough. He wants to look on its beauty and know that his hands alone can touch it.

She had taught herself how to knit, and for the mare's scarf - it was green - she had given herself the best grade possible. And ...' 'That's silly!' Micha giggled. 'Well, who is the cliff queen, you or me?' Abel asked. 'It isn't my fault if you're giving yourself grades!

Throughout the world what remains of the vast public spaces are now only the stuff of legends: Robin Hood's forest, the Great Plains of the Amerindians, the steppes of the nomadic tribes, and so forth… Rousseau said that the first person who wanted a piece of nature as his or her own exclusive possession and transformed it into the transcendent form of private property was the one who invented evil. Good, on the contrary, is what is common.

Some things become so completely our own that we forget them.

My truths do not last long in me. Not as long as those that are not mine.

Many things, In order to assure me their lack of existence; become mine

Many things, In order to assure me their lack of existence; became mine

Better to live in 1 BHK home or a small room as a tenant than to stay in 2-3 BHK house or a big bungalow purchased on a long-term loan and paying its hefty EMI payment.

Show an online or offline place where one says and others do not take away the same to show as their own.

The more the positional layers in the organization, the less the true working picture goes clear up to its owner.

There are many people who say nothing good to any person but once something odd but good said by someone publicly and it has been accepted largely, then they will be first to latch onto it to speak out in some different words to claim to be their own to gain either publicity or make just money.

He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot.

Because if you are the mess, you can clean it. Improvement doesn't depend on others.

Baby I'm Yours

Old pain was heavy in the heart, hard to move, and anyway, Dolores Umber kept a tight hold of her pains and grievances. She thought her pain was the last thing she really owned, the last thing that she could keep all to herself. Her very own thing, and she didn't much care for the idea of someone else trying to take that away from her too.

The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection [are] that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.