Quotes About Ownership

Die Tatsache, dass wahre Schönheit mit Selbstvergessenheit zu tun hatte, passte zum seltsamen Humor des Schöpfers: Jene, die sie besaßen, wussten nichts damit anzufangen, während alle, die etwas davon verstanden, niemals in ihren Besitz gelangten.

Deutschland" war der Name eines Systems, in dem es nur darum ging, was wem gehörte und wer woran die Schuld trug. Jola war Deutschland. Sie kam von dort und würde dorthin zurückkehren. Theo und sie hatten ein Stück Kriegsgebiet mit auf die Insel gebracht.

I had to laugh. I'd set out on this journey home planning to push Billy past the point of endurance, playing on his misplaced feelings of ownership towards me, and five hundred yards from his door I had succeeded.

No puedo lamentarme por lo que hice en el pasado porque no tengo poder para cambiarlo, pero sí para ser dueña de mi futuro.

La vida no nos pertenece, es un préstamo.

I love you," he said, and it felt as if the whole world settled into place when he finally told her. "I love you, and I cannot bear the thought of a moment without you. I want you at my side and in my bed. I want you to bear my children, and I want every bloody person in the world to know that you are mine.

Your heart is free now." "No," he whispered. "It's yours.

A gentleman might have stopped then. She had climaxed, and she was still a virgin, and he was probably a beast for wanting to make love to her fully, but he simply couldn't...not. She was his. But not, he was coming to realize, quite as much as he was hers.

when he called her Anne, it was the first time she felt as if the name was truly hers.

Of course. The team on your carriage was beautiful. They are yours, aren't they?" He ignored her and walked ahead until his foot connected with soft mushy ground. "Shit," he muttered. "Exactly." He glared at her, thinking himself a saint for not going for her throat.

Dogs deserve proper names." "Cats, too?" "Cats are entirely different. They catch mice.

Queria que ela adorasse aquilo, que o amasse e que soubesse, quando se deitassem nos braços um do outro, suados e exaustos, que pertencia a ele. Porque ele já sabia que pertencia a ela.

One really never knows what tomorrow holds. That's why you make the most of every moment - good, bad, or indifferent - and own it like only you can.

My dad has ingrained that in me: 'Be accountable.'

I think what you inherit is not real. I haven't inherited anything. What I have is really mine because I made it myself.

If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well.

I used to put black ink on the author's name in a book and write my name instead to check how it would look there - such was my passion!

The thing I like most about books is that anybody can afford them. They have an innate valuelessness.

It's strange not to allow the actor some input and breathing room into what was written on the page - it is their job to make it come alive.

I'd never buy something, even if it's a great brand, that is a competitor to something I already own; that's insane.

I'm just being me on Instagram, and that's what I love about it. It's definitely personal, and it's, like, no one in my team would ever get my password for my Instagram. Like, that's a no-no.

I was looking at my Instagram, and someone said to me, 'Who manages your Instagram?' I would never let anyone manage my Instagram! I enjoy it.

In my view, we need to break up Facebook from Instagram and the other potential competitors that Facebook bought up.

It fascinates me that there's this instinct to blame something else when you're embarrassed or caught.