Quotes About Ownership

I'm done lighting out, done needing to. This is my land. It's not about the owning of it, but waking up in the morning knowing you're where you want to be, having good work to do and good people around you.

chews up my shoes. I'm thinking about buying her a brother or sister.

Thanking someone for where your life ended up is the same as blaming them for it. We're all responsible for ourselves.

Owning land, he mused, being responsible for it. Plowing, planting, tending, watching things grow. Keeping an eye on the sky, sniffing the air for a turn in the weather. Not a life for Grayson Thane, he thought, but imagined some would find it rewarding. There'd been that simple pride of ownership in Murphy Muldoon's walk—a man who knew his feet were planted on his own.

If you're going to have your own, you have to know how to run a business.

He told you not to cry, but tears keep leaking out of your eyes. And you're glad, because those tears belong to you. They're yours. Your tears. He can't have them. He can't touch them. They're all yours. (182)

Modern people worry about smartphone addiction, despite the fact that landlines exercised much more control over the owner.

The Net was built without a central command authority. That means that nobody owns it, nobody runs it, nobody has the power to kick anybody off for good. There isn't even a master switch that can shut it down in case of emergency. "It's the closest thing to true anarchy that ever existed

You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.

The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.

Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.

Anymore, no one's mind is their own.

Mylife might be little and boring, but at least it's mine - not some assembly-line, secondhand, hand-me-down life.

This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.

Hey, you created me! I didn't create some loser alter-ego to make myself feel better. Take some responsibility!

You're not getting this back you know. Consider it an asshole tax.

The more things you own, the more they own you.

Even if you tell yourself Today I'm going to drink coffee the wrong way ... from a dirty boot. Even that would be right, because you chose to drink coffee from that boot. Because you can do nothing wrong. You are always right. Even when you say, I'm such an idiot, I'm so wrong... you're right. You're right about being wrong. You're right even when you're an idiot. No matter how stupid your idea, you're doomed to be right because it's yours.

How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.

Somehow it seems wrong to photograph a blind person. It's like stealing something valuable they don't even know they own.

I told him to buy land, my mum says, they're not making it anymore.

Proof that no investment is yours forever.

Then you're trapped on your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.

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