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Quotes About Ownership

Our possessions are a trust from God. What we clutch tightly, we lose. What we place in His hands, we will possess.
~ Phil Callaway
The first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
Guns are like cars: you can trust a good used one better than one that's brand new.
~ Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
If he's not real, you'll know. Men have never washed a rented car.
~ Saleem Sharma
The greatest act of courage is to be and to ownall of who you are - without apology, without excuses, without masks to cover the truth of who you are.
~ Debbie Ford
Stop looking for a scapegoat in your life but be willing to face the truth within yourself & right your own wrongs
~ Eileen Caddy
Courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say.
~ Seth
No. But I have incredible luck with dice and I am ruthless. You will lose, gentlemen. I will destroy your lands, take your women, ravish your men, and make your children my slave labor. I will own every castle, house, and farm that is within my reach. I won't be satisfied until I own all of it and you. I will destroy you all, gentlemen, and, to be quite blunt, I don't think you can handle it.
~ Shelly Laurenston
And, sugar, if you're gonna sit out on that balcony at night, half-naked, smellin' so sweet and sighing like you just had the best fuck of your life, then you might as well put a leash around my neck and call me yours.
~ Shelly Laurenston
A fierce possessiveness gripped him, a need to brand her, to make her his, now and forever. And he knew it was madness.
~ Shelly Thacker
I don't own a car.
~ Shepard Smith
book collecting is only meaningful if it's personal," Oscar clarified. "If it's just another way of accumulating wealth instead of for the books themselves it isn't right. Collectors are trying to protect themselves. To separate themselves. It's a hierarchy.
~ Sheridan Hay
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.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
What are you doing? (Amanda) I'm getting into my car. (Kyrian) You own this?! (Amanda) No. I'm stealing it with the key in my hand. (Kyrian)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
It doesn't matter where I am; I'm yours.
~ Sherry Thomas
But you do not need to worry, Cooper. What is mine, I keep.
~ Sherry Thomas
People who have few possessions cling tightly to those they have. That is one of the facts that make life so discouraging.
~ Sherwood Anderson
People who have few possessions cling tightly to those they have.
~ Sherwood Anderson
Ownership that gave curious rights, dominances—fathers over children, men and women over lands, houses, factories in cities, fields.
~ Sherwood Anderson
Possessions mean power, the right to say, 'Do this' or 'Do that.' If you struggle long and hard for a thing it becomes infinitely sweet to you.
~ Sherwood Anderson
I hope people don't take kittens on a whim, like they would a toy, then not care for them.
~ Shirley Rousseau Murphy
To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
But listen, the day one decides to take the reins of one's own life into one's own hands
~ Sidney Poitier
By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression.
~ Sigmund Freud