Quotes About Ownership

Again and again, readers told me about the altered version of history they'd been taught during their required two years of state history. It was news to many of these extremely well-educated, progressive readers that Texas had fought not one, but two wars for the right to own slaves.

Every time Paul and Gene use my makeup, they have to pay me a royalty check. I think they changed the makeup so they didn't have to pay me.

The man can neither man, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels.

Any time someone puts a lock on something you own against your wishes, and doesn't give you the key, they're not doing it for your benefit.

Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave.

The Atlas belongs to the Lenbachhaus in Munich - it's long since ceased to belong to me. Occasionally I run across it somewhere, and I think it's interesting because it looks different each time.

When big-time blunders occur in any workplace, the boss or bosses usually are at fault, not clerks or secretaries or salespeople. Not reporters, the buck stops with the boss.

True ownership of anything requires time.

When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use.

How can you be that which you possess? You cannot be the horse and rider at the same time. Herein lies the secret of mortality and immortality.

Once upon a time I owned a watermelon.

And there is the point exactly, we are all the time blaming difficulties on to something else. Our real trouble is that we are too soft to solve the problem.

Every time we share something rather than own it ourselves, we reduce the stress on the planet. That could make the critical difference as the global population continues to grow.

It's time for me to step up and take control. That's what I've always been used to.

The idea that maybe you don't have to own a car if you only need one occasionally may catch on, just like time-sharing caught on in real estate

You can't propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it.

The first time with artistic endeavors is, if it's working, it was your idea, and if it's not, it's somebody else's idea.

The problem with property is that it takes so much of your time.

Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman.

When we build a public library, we don't have to pay to get in, but when we build a stadium, we have to pay the owner every time we go to a game.

My inheritance how lordly wide and fair; Time is my fair seed-field, to Time I'm heir.

How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.

If you want anything done right you will have to see to it yourself every time.

I would rather do a project that I've invested so much time to, rather than try to get a part on another show.