Quotes About Ownership

There is no doubt that every healthy, normal boy...should own a dog at some time in his life, preferably between the ages of forty-five and fifty.

I routinely never discuss my marriage. It's nice to have things in my life that are totally mine.

People who have few possessions cling tightly to those they have. That is one of the facts that make life so discouraging.

My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he had to be in charge of his problems.

In France, anyone can use your music on like a TV show or whatever - they don't need to ask permission. It's almost like a child when it has its own life.

My dog and two cats are such a vital part of my life. To say that I am their owner doesn't reflect at all the profound bond and responsibility that I have towards them.

The worst thing in the world that can happen to you if you're an engineer that has given his life to something is for someone to rip it off and put their name to it.

There's some benefit to being happy in your life. Of looking around and saying, 'This is mine.

Life and death appear more certainly ours than whatsoever else; and yet hardly can that be called ours, which comes without our knowledge, and goes without it.

I've probably bought ten CDs in my whole life.

I think maybe the key to having a long relationship is really appreciating that person's life and not trying to own it. It's like just stop trying. We all do it.

Of all the groups that sometimes claim to own your life, family is the hardest to defend your individual sovereignty from.

To have little is to possess.

Take custody of your life. Show up, do your best, and let go of the rest.

I had spared the stag's life. The power of that life belonged to me as surely as it belonged to the man who had taken it.

I part-own a bookshop for some strange coincidence of reasons, and it is one of the best things I part-own in my life, or own in my life. I do not know, it just feels great.

You're responsible for yourself. You messed up your life, and it's up to you to fix it. No one else is going to do it for you -- for any of you.

And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.

No generation has a free hold on this earth. All we have is a life tenancy-with a full repairing lease.

We, we live! ours are the hours, and the living have their claims.

Only the strong knew what suffering was. The weak never found themselves in the strong webs; the strong man was the one who found himself day and night bound and struggling, so that the work he did, the plotting and the owning and the buying, the decisions he made—and in a large family there had been many to make—were often hard-fibered.

Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.

Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan. [News conference, April 21 1961]

Search the Constitution and you will find no power granted to the legislative branch to make laws governing agriculture, housing, medicine, energy, private ownership or weapons, and a great deal more.