Quotes About Ownership

Captain Timothy Meaher, the boat's owner, was drinking with the rest of them, and he focused his cunning gray eyes on Russell. Meaher figured the foreign journalist might not understand the way folks did things here in America, so close to the old frontier. White men had claimed

In the fifteenth century the mere fact of owning and reading the Bible in English was presumptive evidence of heresy.

If we stay with animal analogies for a moment, owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are god. (Cats may sometimes share the cold entrails of a kill with you, but this is just what a god might do if he was in a good mood.)

I can claim copyright only in myself, and occasionally in those who are either dead or have written about the same events, or who have a decent expectation of anonymity, or who are such appalling public shits that they have forfeited their right to bitch.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that the land question in Zimbabwe is the single most decisive one.

Who but a slave thanks his master for what his master has decided to do without bothering to consult him.

We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers.

So I'm all, Owned! Bee-yatch! Dog fucking owned you! Doing a minor booty dance of ownage, perhaps, in retrospect, a bit prematurely. (I believe hip-hop to be the apprpriate language for taunting, at least until I learn French.)

I own a book,' he thought, delighted (Paolini 291).

Buku seharusnya berada di tangan yang paling bisa menghargainya, dan tidak hanya diletakkan tanpa dibaca, mengumpulkan debu dalam lemari yang terlupakan.

Los libros deberían de ir a parar donde más valor se les dé, y no deben quedar almacenados, acumulando polvo en algún estante olvidado.

My ring now, he told himself. I have to stop thinking of it as Brom's.

I own a book, he thought, delighted.

Then you ought to know you can't offload responsibility on someone else. You have to be able to take care of yourself when shit goes down.

Some notion of how shrewd they could be is perhaps revealed in the fact that they never tried to hoard a majority of the stock, but used it instead as a tool for growth. Many young entrepreneurs, confusing ownership with control, can't bring themselves to do this.

Humans were strange that way, believing they could hoard what they loved like gold and keep it safely hidden away in their vaults.

It had surprised and impressed Tessia to learn that Everran and Avaria owned two wagons, one for their own everyday use and one kept for visits to the Royal Palace. Since the journey to the palace consisted of half the length of two streets, it seemed frivolous to own a vehicle especially for it.

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Hastaland???mda kendimi senin ellerine teslim edeyim; sana bilmediklerim dahil hakk?mda her ?eyi anlatay?m ve sen benim ruhumun efendisi ol, ister miydin?

If the book is yours and it does not have antiquarian value, do not hesitate to annotate it. Do not trust those who say that you must respect books. You respect books by using them, not leaving them alone. Even if the book is unmarked, you won't make much money reselling it to a bookseller, so you may as well leave traces of your ownership.

The thing whose address I lost is not the End, it's the Beginning. Not the object to be possessed but the subject that possesses me. Misery

Umberto Eco is the owner of a large personal library of almost 30,000 books that he has not read. [To him] read books are far less valuable than unread ones.

And 'poor' does not so much mean owning a palace or not; it means, rather, keeping or renouncing the right to legislate on earthly matters.

Los franciscanos decimos: no poseemos nada, todo lo tenemos en uso. Él