Quotes About Ownership

Also, I was coming up on my five year anniversary of owning the house, and if there's anything I've learned in five years, it's this: if a piece of your house falls off and you don't know what to do with it, throwing it in the trash and forgetting about it is a perfectly viable option.

I have never given this ring, my soul, to anyone. Azrael has never had any part of this. This is the only part of myself that is truly mine, and now it is yours." —Jack Force

If you are sorry, you will leave him. Jack will never be yours, Schuyler. Not like I am yours. -Oliver

Tonight the world is yours, as am I

This is the only part of myself that is truly mine, and now yours.

Yes, everything he touched, everything he owned, everything in his orbit was rare, beautiful, and expensive, but none more so than the treasure in his own bedroom, the most exquisite jewel in his kingdom. Oliver felt his fangs sharpen in anticipation at the thought.

Once they have been affected---once it sets in---codependency takes on a life of its own. It is similar to catching pneumonia or picking up a destructive habit. Once you've got it, you've got it. If you want to get rid of it, YOU have to do something to make it go away. It doesn't matter whose fault it is. Your codependency becomes your problem; solving your problems is your responsibility.

Each person's feelings are his or her own. Nobody makes

we need to realize these are only expectations; they belong to us, and we're not always boss.

Take responsibility for our anger. We can say: "I feel angry when you do this because …

She didn't have to be offered anything; it was already hers. She was more herself than anyone else ever was and as soon as I clapped eyes on her I knew I wanted to be myself just as much as she was herself.

What if I make a mistake?: she finally said. :Everyone makes mistakes. I make mistakes. If you make a mistake, we'll admit to it, own it, and then fix it.:

what Mr. Bishop talked to Tomas about was living with them and controlling them, as if the ability to start fires with his mind was some kind of large dog Tomas had accidentally adopted and was now going to have to learn to take care of properly, like it or not. He

Elves - You can't live with them and there's just no resale value.

let us collect our property - and other people's - and depart at once

The idealized woman becomes property, symbol, and ornament; she is stripped of her essential human qualities. The devalued woman becomes a different kind of object; she is the spittoon in which men release their negative anti-woman feelings.

Acts of appropriation are part of the process by which we make ourselves. Appropriating - taking something for one's own use - need not be synonymous with exploitation. This is especially true of cultural appropriation. The "use" one makes of what is appropriated is the crucial factor.

In a world without love the passion to connect can be replaced by the passion to possess.

By championing hedonistic consumerism and encouraging individuals of all classes to believe that ownership of a particular object mediated the realities of class, mass media created a new image of the rich.

ours is a culture that does not love children, that continues to see children as the property of parents to do with as they will.

First and foremost feminist movement urged females to no longer see ourselves and our bodies as the property of men.

Remaining a victim of circumstance is a state of being that we choose, a choice that — allows us to blame other people — lets us blame circumstances — permits us to avoid responsibility for our lives — encourages us to feel sorry for ourselves, and — guarantees that we will stay victims. No one has to be a victim!

Craig is not yours that you should demand to keep him. He doesn't belong to you, Susan. He is mine.

ownership of an idea makes cooperation with its tenets much more likely.