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Quotes About Ownership

Sometimes I feel guilty as hell for just being able to live my life." I didn't have to tell him that I understood, because he knew that I did. There should be a word for this, the way it feels to steal something that's already yours.
~ Tayari Jones
didn't have to tell him that I understood, because he knew that I did. There should be a word for this, the way it feels to steal something that's already yours.
~ Tayari Jones
My missing tooth was part of my body that should have been with me forever. Teeth are bones at the end of the day. And everyone has a right to their own bones.
~ Tayari Jones
Sooner or later they will leave our country, just as many people throughout history left many countries. The railways, ships, hospitals, factories and schools will be ours and we'll speak their language without either a sense of guilt or a sense of gratitude. Once again we shall be as we were — ordinary people — and if we are lies we shall be lies of our own making.
~ Tayeb Salih
He scolded his listeners for being eager to sell off their few productive assets in exchange for articles of prestige. "You say you want a definition of perpetual motion?" he asked. "Give the average Negro a Cadillac and tell him to park it on some land he owns.
~ Taylor Branch
Finally, if you own a business, make sure you have a sufficient business policy to cover contingencies, such as key-man insurance, or insurance to cover a buy-and-sell agreement.
~ Taylor Larimore
The child cannot be listed on the bond as either an owner or co-owner. However, if the child is listed on the bond as the beneficiary, the bond will still qualify for the tax-free educational benefit.
~ Taylor Larimore
I don't let nobody see me wishin' he was mine.
~ Taylor Swift
These lands are ours. No one has a right to remove us, because we were the first owners. The Great Spirit above has appointed this place for us, on which to light our fires, and here we will remain. As to boundaries, the Great Spirit knows no boundaries, nor will his red children acknowledge any.
~ Tecumseh
We like the idea that there's always someone responsible for any given event, because it helps us make sense of the world. We like that so much that sometimes we blame ourselves, just so that there's someone to blame. But not everything is under our control, or even anyone's control.
~ Ted Chiang
The original Drayta's owner trained him using a puzzle generator pirated from the Five Dynasties continent on the Real Space platform and then released copies to the public domain.
~ Ted Chiang
A company called Edgeplayer markets a digient torture chamber on the Real Space platform; to avoid accusations of unauthorized copying, they use only public-domain digients as victims. The user group has agreed that once they get the Neuroblast engine ported, their conversion procedure will include full ownership verification; no Neuroblast digient will ever enter Real Space without someone committed to taking care of it.
~ Ted Chiang
My feet are locked upon the rough bark.It took the whole of CreationTo produce my foot, my each feather:Now I hold Creation in my footOr fly up, and revolve it all slowly—I kill where I please because it is all mine.
~ Ted Hughes
What's writing really about? It's about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life.
~ Ted Hughes
Only when walking with her person did she attack other dogs. More than likely, these attacks occurred because the white Shepherd felt compelled to protect Ms. W. This need was probably fostered by Ms. W. herself as she transmitted her own fears to her dog.
~ Ted Kerasote
Perhaps Ms. W., like thousands of people, had gotten a big dog on purpose—a dog of a breed with a genetic predisposition toward aggressive behavior—in the hope that it would protect her.
~ Ted Kerasote
For the first three problems—roaming, mounting, and urine marking in the house—only 25 to 40 percent of the dogs showed any resolution. With aggression toward other dogs, one of the most common reasons cited by dog owners for castrating their animal, resolution of the problem was even lower: Only 10 to 15 percent of dogs who lost their balls also lost their desire to fight other males.
~ Ted Kerasote
I'm Irish, working for a Spanish brand, owned by a French company.
~ Jonathan Anderson
Legally speaking, there are no such things as 'public rights,' as distinguished from individual rights. Legally speaking, there is no such creature or thing as 'the public.'
~ Lysander Spooner
The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
~ Derek Walcott
I will tell you another thing, we Argentines criticise Messi because we are specialists in criticising what is ours.
~ Mario Kempes
I own two species of the raptors - Falco peregrinus and Falco biarmicus.
~ Shahid Khan
There is no reason why T-Mobile can't be successful on its own and the only real reason AT&T would want to own T-Mobile is to increase its exclusivity by owning more spectrum.
~ Martin Cooper
The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a piece of the spectrum.
~ Adrian Cronauer