Quotes About Ownership

If it's in the bin, it's public property.

Take your future into your own hands. Make it happen. Life is a coloring book, but you have the pens.

I´m going to make my life work for me. I´m not going to let it whirl round like a kaleidoscope anymore. It´s my life, wich means wrestling i to the floor and bashing it on the head and saying, Take that, life!

A city which belongs to just one man is no true city

It is a painful thing To look at your own trouble and know That you yourself and no one else has made it

Haemon: No city is property of a single man. Creon: But custom gives possession to the ruler. Haemon: You'd rule a desert beautifully alone.

Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.

It's no city at all, owned by one man alone.

It's no city at all, owned by one man alone.

My city too, not yours alone!

He was reminded of what he liked about Irene so much; that she had not written her war away, she claimed it as her own again and again--near the chichra tree in Five Queen's Road and along the cobbled sidewalk opposite a canal in Maastricht and who knows how many more times in the privacy of her own thoughts.

Suddenly, it's all too much. Bryn and the bump watch. Vanessa with my high school yearbook. The idea that nothing's sacred. Everything's fodder. That my life belongs to anyone but me.

Lovely female shapes are terrible complicators of the difficulties and dangers of this earthly life, especially for their owners.

We want more people owning things in this country. Let me put it to you bluntly: In a changing world, we want more people to have control over your own life.

I did not see any way that I could possibly give birth to someone else and also give birth to myself. Far from feeling guilty, it was the first time that I had taken responsibility for my own life.

My family helped start [this country], we've been in political life ... since the 1690s, and I have a very possessive sense about this country.

People have a copyright on their own life.

This isn't like an auction, right? You guys aren't going to take it away?

Happy the man, whose wish and careA few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native airIn his own ground.

He's my cat! He's not God's cat! Let God have his own cat! Let God have all the damn old cats He wants, and kill them all! Church is mine!

I was tired of just letting things happen to me and then feeling bad about them.

In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, 'That is mine!'.

Rather be a thin dog free, than to be a fat one chained

Don't ask me to apologize for holding up a mirror. If you don't like what it's reflecting, take accountability and change it.