Quotes About Ownership

So much had become so connected to him that it seemed to belong to him, so that now, flying, for hours, above the Atlantic still felt like being over his realm.

I'm not a businessman. I'm a business, man.

Yo! Hold my poodle!

their bodies seemed to be a battlefield" between the values of the west, the "'capitalist' construction in which female bodies are 'sexualized, objectified, thingified' and the traditional in which women's bodies were 'chattelized,' 'propertized,' and terrorized as trustees of family (sexual) honor." (P. 524) Lama Abu-Odeh

there also comes a time when he must stop thinking of himself as a victim by acknowledging that—existentially—his fate is always in his own hands.

If I were to retire, I would keep my family's interest in the company the same and say, Don't sell.

Uh…tell me, Mace. Have you actually let her in on the fact she's yours now?" "No. But I will. She'll simply have to deal with it." Smitty sighed. "So says the King of the Jungle.

Give her to me." Turning away with his prize, Lock shook his head. "No. Get your own cat." "She's my sister.

Mace let out an exasperated sigh. "It's bad enough we have the baby. Which I was accepting of because he's mine." "That's real big of ya, hoss.

Then it sounds to me like you love her. And if you love her, then tell her she belongs to you and she needs to get over it. Show her who's in charge. That's what I did with Sara." Zach seemed less than pleased when they all laughed so hard Conall actually fell off the bed.

Oh, come on, Jess!" May begged. "Just let me sit in it." "No! It's mine!" Jess rested her head against Lock's shoulder. "All mine. My throne of power. By this chair I rule.

Uh…could you leave him here? He kind of comes with the place." Frowning, Lock glanced down. "Oh, jeez!" Oh, jeez?

Any time you turn off and let someone else make any artistic decision for you, you make a mistake.

A lot of people have it - that fantasy of being lord or lady of the manor, either in the present or at some time in history.

When you have hotels and businesses and retail space across the entire world, it takes time to unpack that and to put this in a place that makes sense for him and the family.

I'll make my old clothes know who's master. I shall straightaway cashier the hunting-frock, and render my leather breeches incapable. My hair has been in training some time.

No fate could rob us of our own-- No circumstance can make it less; What time removes was but a loan, For what was ours we still possess.

Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time.

I think people imagine going back to a time when they knew who they were and they knew what the circumstances were - if you screwed up it was your fault.

What we should have done a long time ago was stand up - players, ownership, everybody - and said: 'We made a mistake.'

Every hour in itself, as it respects us in particular, is the only one we can call our own.

Any time you build a company designed to be sold, you ultimately get less value if it's sold.

Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.

It's impossible to be content all the time - you have to learn to be content in places where you're unhappy and owning your emotions, whatever they are.