Quotes About Ownership

It is often much harder to get rid of books than to acquire them. They stick to us in that pact of need and oblivion we make with them, witnesses to a moment in our lives we will never see again. While they are still there, it is part of us.

Ninguém quer extraviar um livro. Preferimos perder um anel, um relógio, o chapéu-de-chuva, do que o livro cujas páginas não mais leremos mas que conservam, na sonoridade do seu título, uma antiga e talvez perdida emoção.

Ço?unlukla bir kitaptan kurtulmak ona sahip olmaktan daha zordur. Kitaplar, sanki asla geri dönemeyece?imiz bir an?n tan?klar? gibi, bir ihtiyaç ve unutkanl?k anla?mas?yla tutunurlar insana.

What you must understand is that according to the U.S. government, a parent does not own the rights to care for their own child. Instead, the true responsibility for childcare belongs to the state.

In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody's best friend.

It is not enough to say you are sorry. You must utterly own the terrible thing you have done. You must cast no blame on the one you have injured. Rather, accept every molecule of the responsibility, even if reason and self-preservation scream against it. Then, and only then, will the words 'I am sorry' have meaning.

you aren't a failure until you start to blame. What

She is dressed in the nicest of her purloined finery – an ivory satin gown, which she has painstakingly taken in at the seams, its original owner having had a tad more hip, and a tad less hooray than its current one.

John Wooden, the legendary basketball coach, says you aren't a failure until you start to blame. What he means is that you can still be in the process of learning from your mistakes until you deny them.

John Wooden, the legendary basketball coach, says you aren't a failure until you start to blame.

John Wooden, el legendario entrenador de baloncesto, dice que no eres un fracasado hasta que no empiezas a culpar

Then I realized something. I controlled half of the relationship, my half. I could have my half of the relationship.

This table once belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte," he said. "You mean the Napoleon we read about in our history book?" Staci asked. "The guy with his hand under his coat scratching his bellybutton?" Wendy added.

Ultimately what remains is a story. In the end, it's the only thing any of us really owns.

People think they own time. They have watches and clocks and digital pulses. But they are wrong. Time owns them.

One scholar has estimated that a third of Dakota homesteads were held by women a decade later.

You didn't tie your shoelaces and you blamed the world when you tripped.

I own every book Stephen King has ever written." "That's great. That's something to be proud of." But did you read them, fuckface?

I wake up first. I go into your bathroom, into your tub and I piss all over the floor of the shower and mark my place, my home, you.

You want me to like your bed. You know it's gonna be our bed

When you walk into a room, act as if you own the whole house, not just that room. Paste on a smile, even if it's fake, and never tug at your skirt or mess with your necklace

So the purpose of the axiom "having is evidence of wanting" is not at all to blame anyone or to shame them for their experience

With you it's different. I come like a bloody bull with you. I want to reach inside you and make you feel what I do, to know heaven and hell and pleasure so intense you can't tell if it's agony or pure bliss."..."When I make love to you, I am yours. You own me body and soul.

A surprising number of owners never touch the horses they own. Some, like Mrs. Benson, are afraid of them.