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Quotes About Ownership

Please, don't apologize. These are the moments I live for. Reuniting a book with its rightful owner can be magical.
~ Kristin Harmel
Une société qui se serait emparé de toute la richesse sociale et qui aura hautement proclamée que "tous" ont droit à cette richesse, - quelle que fut la part qu'ils eussent prises antérieurement à la créer, - sera forcée d'abandonner toute idée de salariat, soit en monnaie, soit en bons de travail.
~ Kropotkine
MIT economist David Autor has written, "but a serious challenge in determining who owns it and how to share it. Our chief economic problem will be one of distribution
~ Kurt Andersen
MIT economist David Autor has written, "but a serious challenge in determining who owns it and how to share it. Our chief economic problem will be one of distribution, not scarcity.
~ Kurt Andersen
What has been taken from you, it is this that owns you, and you, shell of all joy, must walk through this city as beautiful as the last summer flowers.
~ Kwame Dawes
All real difficulty stems from no responsibility. Full responsibility is not fault; it is recognition of being cause.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
Stress the right of the individual to select only what he desires to know, to use any knowledge as he wishes, that he himself owns what he has learned.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
Elena is mine.
~ L.J. Smith
I am my only master
~ L.J. Smith
She belongs to me, he sent out on a heavy wave of Power and on all frequencies, including the one the scream had come on.  It might not be obvious, but she is mine.  Touch her again and die.
~ L.J. Smith
Before we passionately desire a thing, we should examine the happiness of its possessor.
~ la rochefoucauld ii
We should not be much concerned about faults we have the courage to own.
~ la rochefoucauld v
I care more about the people than about the company. That's why I don't want to own it. I don't want to run a business. People do it better than I do.
~ lagerfeld karl ii
Now he wanted that which had always been my own—my story. Tell
~ Laila Lalami
Life won't just happen to you boy, he said. You have to happen to it.
~ Laini Taylor
No le perteneces. Tampoco me perteneces a mi. Tú eres tu propio sueño.
~ Laini Taylor
And there would be a door to shut out the world, and places to put things that would be theirs.
~ Laini Taylor
Tal vez todos queramos, pero algunos somos dueños de nuestros deseos, mientras que otros son esclavos...
~ Laini Taylor
Drawing had always been how she processed things. Once they were on paper they were hers, and she could decide what power they would hold over her.
~ Laini Taylor
Las almas muertas solo sueñan con la muerte —dijo el resucitador al emperador—. Los sueños insignificantes son para los hombres insignificantes. La vida es la que se expande para llenar los mundos. Es la vida tu dueña, o la muerte.
~ Laini Taylor
Geçmi?inden bir ses kulaklar?na çal?nd?. "Sen ona ait de?ilsin." Annesinin sesiydi. Gür, melodik ve aksanl?. "Bana da de?ilsin. Sen kendine aitsin." Hiç a?lamam??t?. Festival. Onu tutmaya, muhaf?zlara kar?? koymaya çal??mam??t?. Ona veda bile edememi?ti. Vedalar kaderin ak???n? de?i?tirir, demi?ti Jael.
~ Laini Taylor
Det var genom teckningen hon bearbetade saker. När de väl fästs på papper var de hennes och då kunde hon bestämma vilken makt de hade över henne (s. 109).
~ Laini Taylor
La vida es la que se expande para llenar los mundos. Es la vida tu dueña, o la muerte.
~ Laini Taylor
He learned to coax Brother Cyrus into that place of reverie, and he collected the stories like treasure. Lazlo owned nothing, not one single thing, but from the first, the stories felt like his own hoard of gold.
~ Laini Taylor