Quotes About Ownership

Lovely female shapes are terrible complicators of the difficulties and dangers of this earthly life, especially for their owners.

It mattered a great deal who occupied your country. The

They're like beasts of the jungle," a woman said to Edge. "But it was their jungle first," he answered

I have never solicited nor received money from Iraq for our campaign against war and sanctions. I have never seen a barrel of oil, never owned one, never bought one, never sold one.

Mr. Evans? I called. A moment of your time? He looked at me as if he'd never seen me before. Do I know you? My name is Dina. I own the bed-and-breakfast. He glanced past me at the old house sitting at the mouth of the subdivision. That monstrosity? Aren't you sweet? Yes.

Your body belongs to you alone. Touching it is a privilege, and it's up to you to grant it.

Mhm, Kate, the chief of security. Sexy. Who better to guard my body than the woman who owns it?" "Curran, I will punch you." "Rough play." Curran pretended to shiver in excitement.

Well, you don't get to have any of my bullshit. I'm keeping it." Okay, and that didn't sound childish. Not at all.

Contrary to popular opinion, people who have money refuse to part with it, unless they absolutely have to do it.

She'd been around long enough to know that it was a rare man who fully accepted responsibility for his actions, who didn't offer any excuses.

This inn cradled me as I took my first breath. No matter how hard you try, it will never be yours." I planted the broom into the floor.

Under a nonrepublican constitution, where subjects are not citizens, the easiest thing in the world to do is to declare war. Here the ruler is not a fellow citizen, but the nation's owner, and war does not affect his table, his hunt, his places of pleasure, his court festivals, and so on. Thus, he can decide to go to war for the most meaningless of reasons, as if it were a kind of pleasure party...

What a beautiful horse! They really do have beautiful horses, by God." The young girls sighed. Then the bitter voice of some old man dozing by the stove called out, "Sure they do, they're our horses!

Even if he hadn't given it to me, you don't throw away another person's books. If I want to read something, I want to read it.

What an extraordinary satisfaction there is in cleaning things! (Does the satisfaction depend on ownership? I suspect so.)

Death contradicts ownership and self.

But my wants are huge, my desires are rapacious, I want love, I want the splendour and violence of love, and I want it now, I want someone of my own.

Las historias de drogas son como las historias de sueños o de polvos: solo te interesan si son tuyas.

They don't want equal time - they want all the time there is.

Los matemáticos manejan grandes cantidades, pero nunca suyas…

Pues... la gente que quiere distribuir un poco la riqueza y desea evitar que se concentre en manos que no son las que la producen. ¿Comprende lo que quiero decir?

the fact that Jander was Fastolfe's own creation does not give him the right to destroy it.

the question of ownership of the means of production becomes obsolescent. Whoever owned them (if such a phrase has meaning), a man, a group, a nation, or all mankind, they could be utilized only as the Machines directed.

Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone.