Quotes About Ownership

My father plowed under our fields to make the landing space for his helicopter. Jenna's father thinks my father is lazy since he only flies three times a week and is back by dinnertime. My father thinks Jenna's father should mind his own business.

IT WAS ME. I'M STANDING RIGHT NEXT TO YOU! IT WAS MY FAULT THEY STOPPED GIVING TOURS.

Sarah also compared a Louisiana law that said everything possessed by a slave belonged to his master with a law that said, "A woman's personal property by marriage becomes absolutely her husband's which, at his death, he may leave entirely from her.

The issue that united the anti-slavery and feminist movements was a demand for the right of every human being to control his or her own body and property. This same principle is the core of individualist feminism today.

Don't tell me I'm responsible for my thirst when you keep all the water.

Everything we have is not ours. And it will be inherited by another for a short time."

Some people own the beach and others don't know the sea."

You can't has,' he whispered softly, 'not yours.

Who hath a book Hath friends at hand, And gold and gear At his command; And rich estates, If he but look, Are held by him Who hath a book. "Who hath a book Hath but to read And he may be A king, indeed. His kingdom is His inglenook- All this is his Who hath a book.

Leaders of large businesses sometimes make huge bets in expensive mergers and acquisitions, acting on the mistaken belief that they can manage the assets of another company better than its current owners do.

Remember you don't really own anything you can't carry at a dead run.

But the main reason we keep ducking the responsibility of self-creation is that it is super scary. If I am the master of my fate and my fate does not turn out so well, I have no one to blame but myself.

Pochi oggetti risvegliano quanto il libro il sentimento di assoluta proprietà.

Appena un libro finisce nelle nostre mani, è nostro, proprio come dicono i bambini: - È il mio libro - ... parte integrante di me stesso. E forse questa la ragione per cui così difficilmente restituiamo i libri che ci vengono prestati. Non esattamente un furto... (no, no, non siamo dei ladri; no...), diciamo, un passaggio di proprietà, o meglio, un trasferimento di sostanza.

Few objects awaken as much as the book the feeling of absolute property. Fallen in our hands, the books become our slaves.

The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.

The owner doesn't ask questions about where the painting has been. He's just happy to have it hanging on his wall again.

You know the old Russian proverb, Allon. What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine.

Two minutes after she entered the building, a light appeared in a third-floor window. A rapid check of a government property database indicated that the unit in question was owned by an Isabel Brenner, a citizen of the Federal Republic of Germany. A further check revealed that she served as a compliance officer in the Zurich office of RhineBank AG, otherwise known as the world's dirtiest bank

Remember, darling, one normally doesn't part with the Rembrandt because one is tired of looking at it. One parts with because one needs money. And the last thing a rich person wants is to tell the world that he's not rich anymore. - Julian Isherwood

Nearly one hundred thousand luxury British properties were held by secret owners

Or, as Durand liked to describe it, he managed the acquisition of paintings that were not technically for sale.

They even owned an automobile, a cherry-red Lada that on occasion actually performed the function for which it was designed and assembled.

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the US since the days of Andrew Jackson," President Roosevelt wrote in a confidential letter to US diplomat Edward Mandell House in 1933. Of course, this statement was not made public.