Quotes About Ownership

Só quando a verdade for adquirida por seu próprio pensamento, através dos esforços de seu intelecto, ela se torna membro de seu próprio corpo, e só essa verdade realmente nos pertence.

Rahel's toy wristwatch had the time painted on it. Ten to two. One of her ambitions was to own a watch on which she could change the time whenever she wanted to (which according to her was what Time was meant for in the first place).

One of her ambitions was to own a watch on which she could change the time whenever she wanted to (which according to her was what Time was meant for in the first place)

He made her feel as though the world belonged to them...

Once you own history, it begins to own you.

The rulers of this country have always considered their property more important than our lives.

No, the more familiar and widely dangerous issue is a kind of silent disengagement, the consequence of specialized technicians sticking narrowly to their domains. "That's not my problem" is possibly the worst thing people can think, whether they are starting an operation, taxiing an airplane full of passengers down a runway, or building a thousand-foot-tall skyscraper.

That's not my problem" is possibly the worst thing people can think

When things go wrong, the attending is expected to take full responsibility. It

At home, you decide how you spend your time, how you share your space, and how you manage your possessions. Away from home, you don't. This

I cannot recall the words of my first poem but I remember a promise I made my pen never to leave it lying in somebody else's blood.

As soon as a challenge was overcome, it creased to be a challenge, becoming the expected and ordinary rather than something I had achieved with difficulty, and could, therefore, be justly proud of. I could not own my own triumphs, nor give myself credit for them.

But this delectable creature in front of me was most certanly a girl, and I wanted her for my very own - my very own what, I did not know - but for my very own self.

If a flower you covet, straightway you are told it is another's.

Any damage that's been done, you have to fix yourself because it needs fixing and there is nobody else to do the work. Blame may well be justified, but it's not going to move you forward in your life.

Frustrated at never being able to figure out which silver Prius was mine, I put a second Obama sticker on the bumper, because having only one made it indistinguishable from the rest. I suppose, if I really wanted to make it easier to find, I'd slap a National Rifle Association sticker on it.

There is no affirmation without the one who affirms. in this sense, everything to which you grant your love is yours

I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part of my energy. Nor to any achievement of mine. No matter who makes the claim, how large their number or how great their need.

But a few understand that building is a great symbol we live in our minds, and existence is the attempt to bring that life into physical reality, to state it in gesture and form. For the man who understands this, a house he owns is a statement of his life.

A man doesn't borrow pieces of his body. A building doesn't borrow hunks of its soul. Its maker gives it the soul and every wall, window and stairway to express it.

My hands . . . My spirit . . . My sky . . . My forest . . . This earth of mine . . .

Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned

I am a man. This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before!

The world is ours, whenever we choose to claim it, by virtue and grace of the fact that ours is the Morality of Life.