Quotes About Ownership

I would still like to own and run a restaurant serving Indian food with a good dollop of Parsi cooking - which you can't seem to get anywhere.

An absolute and unlimited right over any object of property would be the right to commit nearly every crime. If I had such a right over the stick I am about to cut, I might employ it as a mace to knock down the passengers, or I might convert it into a sceptre as an emblem of royalty, or into an idol to offend the national religion.

We should celebrate that many more women are reconfiguring feminism and that grassroots activism is spreading like wildfire and millions of women are waking up to the possibility of taking ownership of our world as fully-entitled human beings how can we argue with that?

why did he not free his slaves?

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

I'm not a babe to them, Ams, I'm an old-school has-been who's part of the problem, they don't respect me. Then you need to talk to them, Dom, and we should celebrate that many more women are reconfiguring feminism and that grassroots activism is spreading like wildfire and millions of women are waking up to the possibility of taking ownership of our world as fully-entitled human beings.

Certain material possessions make my life more enjoyable, many others do not…. All too often, a vast collection of possessions end up possessing their owner

Let's be very clear. Corporate media is not "objective"; they are not the "referees" trying to provide "all sides of the story." Corporate media are profit-making entities owned and controlled by the ruling class and some of the wealthiest people in the country. And, like all private corporations, they have an agenda.

what has not changed is the sense of empowerment that grows when working people are treated not as "employees," but as "owners" who share responsibility for defining the scope and character of their jobs.

you can apologize, but don't ever be sorry!

It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.

It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

In savage times marriage was a matter either of force, fraud, or purchase. Women were merchandise, by the sale of whom their male relatives profited, or they were captives in war, the spoil of the conqueror, or they were stolen away from the paternal home. In all cases, however, the possession once obtained, they became the property of the men who married them, and the husband was their "lord," their "master."

That hen became our pet. The kids fed her Cheetos. We even competed to name her. Beyoncé is not what I'd have chosen, but we'd agreed before setting out Monopoly that the winner got naming rights, and Thomas had a hotel on Park Place.

I'm fascinated with antiques," Miz Goodpepper said, bathing in a pool of soft light from the window. "I find there's a sweet sorrow in object that have slipped away from their original owners.

Might you soon belong to you?

and though her life had not been what her more youthful self would have dreamed, it had been unmistakably, irrevocably hers.

Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. ISAIAH 43:1

But you, Pearl, never liked anything once it was yours.

But whatever gives power is also potentially dangerous. What can make others anxious is a potentially destructive power; and if it can harm others it might also destroy its owner.

THIS IS DICK -- DON'T TOUCH!!!

The professor was looking at Theodosia; he knew with resigned amusement that he was about to become the owner of the little dog. She wasn't going to ask, but the expression on her face was eloquent.

Some do, but the big cattle ranchers don't. They own the land now and it's made them rich. They don't care if the tribes are fenced in, starving, and destitute, as long as they can ship their beef.

You can't be me. I'm already taken. You can be yourself, though." "But you've got swag." "Yes, I do, because I'm from Detroit, and it's in the water.