Quotes About Ownership

Life doesn't have the problem. You do.

Because these really are rules. And the foremost rule is that you must take responsibility for your own life. Period.

Christianity made explicit the surprising claim that even the lowliest person had rights, genuine rights—and that sovereign and state were morally charged, at a fundamental level, to recognize those rights. Christianity put forward, explicitly, the even more incomprehensible idea that the act of human ownership degraded the slaver (previously viewed as admirable nobility) as much or even more than the slave.

Never buy a depreciating asset. If it drives, flies, floats, or fucks... lease it.

I once owned a really, really ugly pair of white leather boots. They were so bad. It was back in the '80s! It was just a really tacky fashion choice when I was in middle school, and I thought it was cool. I'm really embarrassed.

People spend so much time in their cars, and it's a legal way to have fun by speeding a little bit or testing yourself a little bit, and you get to invest in your car. For some people, it becomes their baby.

Estar enamorado es como pisar la Luna. Te crees que eres el primero, pero en 1969 por allí ya se paseó un tal Neil Armstrong. ¿Y qué más da? Cada cual tiene su luna. Cada cual es dueño de su propio universo sentimental. Por eso, el amor es único. No se puede vivir con él, porque te ahoga, pero es imposible vivir sin él, porque te mata.

Los poetas levantan castillos en el aire, los locos los habitan, y alguien, en la vida real, cobra el alquiler».

He is in possession of his life who is in possession of his story." —Carl Jung

Only that which is gone belongs to us.

The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.

May I break your even weave, loosen your knot, and if i break you are you mine?

A free man has two things thoroughly his own, his body and his land.

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.

I can't be yours forever, Mab," I told her, the words flying into my mouth as if by magic. "I already belong to someone else. I belong to Alice!

When someone told Mark Twain that Andrew Carnegie's money was tainted, he said, it sure is—'tain't yours and 'tain't mine.

I'm pretty insistent about taking blame when it's deserved; I'm less concerned about claiming credit." DeWitt

Hey, Frankie!" he called. "Benny is black and white, right? Could this be his?

Appledusk is mine!

Now those dogs know where we live.

We've taken what should be ours, and we will take more," Smokefoot told him.

Call yourself a leader? he asked himself savagely.

Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.