Quotes About Ownership

I feel as if when you love a book it becomes a part of you whether you have it on your shelves or not.

Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.

We come from the land, give our love and labor to her, and she nurtures us in return. When we die, we return to the land. In a way, she owns us. Palestine owns us and we belong to her

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

From the first time I saw you, I've belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me. -Jace

I grew up always admiring business owners. I was always interested in knowing who pulled what strings. I've always been in love with the decision making process, not just the product.

I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.

Responsibility means being able to respond to whatever situation you may face in your life.

What's yours is mine and what's mine is my own.

We love only what we do not wholly possess.

Love is a rose But you better not pick it. It only grows When it's on the vine. Handful of thorns And you'll know you missed it. You lose your love When you say the word MINE.

No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.

I love all of my shoes! It is a must to have them color coordinated, and to be able to see each and every one of them. I know exactly where each one lives and I can tell if one has even been moved!

When you love something, you get to know it. Then you feel the ownership and if it changes, you only love it as far as you know it because then you're like, "What is this?"

If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it was, and always will be yours. If it never returns, it was never yours to begin with.

We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it - for a little while.

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything.

It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being.

Did what I want happen? No. Then my aim or my methods were wrong. I still have something to learn." That is the voice of authenticity. "Did what I want happen? No. Then the world is unfair. People are jealous, and too stupid to understand. It is the fault of something or someone else." That is the voice of inauthenticity.

the foremost rule is that you must take responsibility for your own life. Period.

People are better at filling and properly administering prescription medication to their pets than to themselves.

It is in fact nothing short of a miracle (and we should keep this fact firmly before our eyes) that the hierarchical slave-based societies of our ancestors reorganized themselves, under the sway of an ethical/religious revelation, such that the ownership and absolute domination of another person came to be viewed as wrong.

And if you're not thinking such things through, then you're not acting responsibly as a parent. You're leaving the dirty work to someone else, who will be much dirtier doing it.