Quotes About Ownership

He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were merely a common part of the world's store of ideas which had always existed ready-made and which people only borrowed, like books from a library.

What we have not chosen we cannot consider our merit or our failure.

Las personas deberían recibir su veneno el día de su mayoría de edad. Debería entregárseles en una ceremonia solemne. No para inducirlas al suicidio. Al contrario, para que vivan con más tranquilidad y más seguridad. Para que vivan con la conciencia de que son dueñas de su vida y de su muerte.

Aquello que no ha sido elegido por nosotros no podemos considerarlo ni como un mérito ni como un fracaso.

What we have not chosen we cannot consider either our merit or our failure.

I hate how white people always try to take credit for something after they discover it. Like it wasn't happening before they found out about it--which most times is always late, and they didn't have nothing to do with it happening.

ZAR NE VIDIŠ DA NI TO LICE NA TEBI NIJE TVOJE? POGLEDAJ NA BILO KOJU FRESKU ILI SLIKU PA ?EŠ GA ZA?AS NA?I. TEBI JE SAMO PRIVREMENO DATO NA ?UVANJE, DA GA MALO NOSIŠ, KAO TU? ŠEŠIR, PA ?E OTI?I DALJE. TO ISTO VREDI I ZA TVOJ GLAS I ZVIŽDUK. OSVRNI SE, UOSTALOM, NA SVOJU SENKU, TU NA ZIDU, KOJA JE RASLA I GOJILA SE S TOBOM. U NJU ?EŠ JEDNOM LE?I POSLEDNJI PUT I ONA ?E TE NADŽIVETI.

Only people have incomes and they derive them through the market from the resources they own, whether these be in the form of corporate stock, or of bonds, or of land, or of their personal capacity.

I grew up in the country, which is probably why I'm so attached to the land. I love it. I love the lay of the land. I love walking the land. And I love knowing that it's my land.

Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can never get it out? Territoriality.

By 'Love' people mean a certain kind of monopoly understanding a simple fact: that the moment you possess a living being you have killed him.

She's my mate; that makes her mine. Forgetting that will see your neck no longer serving its purpose." "I love it when you talk dirty," she purred. "Give my regards to Lindsay.

If you sweep a house, and tend its fires and fill its stove, and there is love in you all the years you are doing this, then you and that house are married, that house is yours.

What I have done is yours; what I have to do is yours; being part in all I have, devoted yours.

There is no affirmation without the one who affirms. in this sense, everything to which you grant your love is yours

If I love a song, I make it mine.

Nothing belongs more fully to an artist than his creation - even if you give him your youth, your money, your love, your courage, nothing belongs to you.

Naught is possessed, neither gold, nor land nor love, nor life, nor peace, nor even sorrow nor death, nor yet salvation. Say of nothing: It is mine. Say only: It is with me.

Love's a dog in a manger.

People love discovering you. The thing about not being historically a mainstream writer is that everyone feels like you're theirs, you're their friend.

I love clothes, so when I wear clothes, they're usually somebody's. You know, I'm not wearing Kmart.

When a Lover is a Beggar Abject is his Knee. When a Lover is an Owner Different is he.

I always had a very strong sense of independence. I really liked being able to buy my Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill album. I wore that as a badge of honor. I love not having to rely on anyone.

Time holds the final claim check for everything we gain or attain in this lifetime. All of our possessions, along with the people we love, are only loaned to us for a very short time by eternity.