Quotes About Ownership

This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before!

Ova drustvena revolucija se manifestira kroz vrlo razlicite aspekte, najprije ogromna seljacka buna, siroki bazni pokret koji ima svoje korijene u dugoj historiji, obiljezenoj ne samo mrznjom nego i dubokim zaziranjem seljastva prema gradu, vanjskom svijetu i prema svakom obliku mijesanja u drzavno vlasnistvo.

Thank God for the things that I do not own.

We have named all the stars and all the planet, even though they might already have had names of their own. What a nerve!

We have named all the stars and all the planets, even though they might already have had names of their own. What a nerve!

Am I responsible for my unconscious? No one else is, if not myself.

Si un banco o una compañía financiera eran dueños de las tierras, el enviado decía: el Banco, o la Compañía, necesita, quiere, insiste, debe recibir, como si el banco o la compañía fuera un monstruo con capacidad para pensar y sentir, que les hubiera atrapado. Ellos no asumían la responsabilidad por los bancos o las compañías porque eran hombres y esclavos, mientras que los bancos eran máquinas y amos, todo al mismo tiempo.

The best author is a dead author, because he's out of your way and you own the play. Take what he has given you and use it for what you need.

Just as some historians seemed more shocked that the author of the Declaration of Independence had sex with Sally Hemmings than by the fact that he owned her, Clinton received far more censure for his sexual misdeeds than for other moral lapses, such as his politically motivated decision to ignore the finding of a bipartisan panel that issuing needles to drug addicts would save lives and curtail the spread of AIDS without increasing drug addiction.

Meant to be allows for lazy. The idea of destiny alleviates anxiety; it comforts us. We stop believing that we had ownership, that we could have done something to change the outcome. It's lazier than The Clapper.

At what age did men mature? If ever? And at what age did a woman cease having to deal with men acting as if they owned the right to lustfully indulge in a woman, be it with his eyes or hands? There was more to a woman than a womb and breasts.

That woman who was her true self saw Lord Sebastian Cynster, Marquess of Earith, as, quite simply, hers.

He'd gotten into a fight with his sister, Splayfoot, over a particularly juicy dwarf willow he'd found. Just as he had prised the branches from the ground and had begun to strip them of their succulent leaves, the calf had come bustling over to him and had tried to push him away so she could get at the willow herself. His willow.

He said it was the kind of book you made your own.

He realized that if he didn't leave, it would never be his life. It would be theirs.

If you fail at your job, you do not blame some outside force. You look right in the mirror and take responsibility. That was the problem with the world. No one took responsibility.

In the hallways, I see the girls wearing guys' jackets, and I think about the idea of property.

I guess what I'm saying is that this all feels very familiar. But it's not mine to be familiar about.

Used books are the sluts of the literary world. Passed around from person to person, spreading their pages for anyone, getting cheaper and cheaper until eventually they end up in prison.

Are warbirds the ultimate upscale status toy? Certainly. They're like beautiful women—if you have to ask what one costs, you can't afford it.

As long as you think the problem is out there, that very thought is the problem

Accountability breeds response-ability.

There are enough guns in the United States that if you gave one to every adult, you would run out of adults before you ran out of guns

We keep our insignificant blemishes so that we can blame them for our larger defects.