Quotes About Ownership

Folks say he's up to his neck in debts. He doesn't even own the hair on his head.

But it's as my mother, bless her, says: When a madman breaks a window, it's never his own….

Nothing lasts forever. And no one is ever satisfied. We're tired of going from door to door for kvawdehz and nikelz. Better your own slice of bread than the next man's loaf.

A mother who undergoes a nine-month pregnancy is likely to feel that the product of all that pain and discomfort 'belongs' to her.

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.

Usted es como yo —había dicho Sam Roffe—. Nosotros queremos ser dueños del mundo. Yo le enseñaré cómo lograrlo. —Y lo hizo.

my selfishness would be proof that it wasn't love, but a need for ownership.

Nothing that is mentally our own can ever be lost.

I once heard a stranger in agitated conversation with her pug: And I suppose it's all my fault again, isn't it? At which, I swear, the dog rolled its eyes.

Rather than, say, Toni Morrison, who called basing a character on a real person an infringement of copyright. A person owns his life, she says. It's not for another to use it for fiction.

I told Ron to take my name off the paper," recalls Adleman. "I told him that it was his invention, not mine. But Ron refused and we got into a discussion about it.

Bezetenheid is het beste te genezen door het zelf te bezitten.

No American, so far as I am aware, ever professed a deep and unsullied affection for the USGS topographical sheets that it is possible to order from the government agencies. They are fine enough maps, and they cover the entirety of the nation. But seldom are they bought for the sheer pleasure of ownership, of the ability to pore over them and imagine, or remember, to draw contented admiration at their elegant appearance and scrupulous accuracy.

Sorumlusu olmad???m halde, benim olan, hiçbir zaman da ba???latamayaca??m bir günah?n, umutsuzluk içinde, cezas?n? çekiyordum.

Es mío solamente aquello en lo que reconozco mi ser y no puedo reconocerlo sino ahí donde estoy comprometido; para que un objeto me pertenezca, es preciso que haya sido fundado por mí: no es totalmente mío si no lo he fundado en su totalidad. La única realidad que me pertenece enteramente es pues, mi acto.

Para saber lo que es mío, es necesario saber lo que hago verdaderamente.

Je ne peux pas m'approprier le champ de neige sur lequel je glisse: il demeure étranger, interdit; mais je me complais dans cet effort meme vers un possession impossible: je l'éprouve comme un triomphe, non comme une défait

In amorous passion particularly, one does not want the beloved being to be admired objectively; one prefers to think her unknown, unrecognized; the lover thinks that his appropriation of her is greater if he is alone in revealing her worth. That is the genuine thing offered by all passion.

Qué esperamos pues del otro? Estaría equivocada en esperar que el otro me llevara lejos a través de un devenir sin fin: ningún acto humano se propaga hasta el infinito. Lo que otro crea a partir de mí no es ya mío.

Nous ne possédons rien au monde - car le hasard peut tout nous ôter - sinon le pouvoir de dire je

Nöyryys on samaa kuin tieto, ettei siinä mitä sanotaan minäksi ole lainkaan sellaista energiaa, jonka avulla pääsisimme kohoamaan. Kaikki mitä minussa on arvokasta, on poikkeuksetta peräisin muualta; eikä se ole lahjaa vaa lainaa, joka on alituisesti uudistettava. Kaikki mitä minussa itsessäni on, on poikkeuksetta arvotonta; ja jos anastan omakseni muualta saamiani lahjoja, nekin heti muuttuvat arvottomiksi.

Hear this, young men and women everywhere, and proclaim it far and wide. The earth is yours and the fullness thereof. Be kind, but be fierce. You are needed now more than ever before. Take up the mantle of change. For this is your time.

Every time we lobbied them for the right to choose whether or not we will have children, we acknowledged that men owned us.

I wont let him have you.