Quotes About Ownership

When you own nothing, it's hard to believe you have anything to lose.

Ramrod has an empire. They have not had it very long yet already it is shabby and disreputable. Everyday the faggots and their friends can see, hear, and feel Ramrod's empire disintegrating as the men lose more and more things they never owned in the first place.

My wife's cats have been neutered and declawed, so they're like pillows that eat.

The biggest noisemaker is your ego, your tendency to attach to things as me or mine.

Get in control. Live your life the way you want to live it. Don't have the money to do that? Remind yourself that your condition is your own damn fault and then commit and constantly recommit yourself to having the money to live any way you want to live.

Growing a pair is a state of mind, an attitude, and a way of thinking. It's about giving up being a victim and taking control of your life at every level. It is the willingness to do the right thing even when everyone else is doing the wrong thing.

Your thoughts, your words, and your actions created the life you are living. You create your results—no one else.

Leave God out of your mess and go look in the mirror instead.

My feelings are my own responsibility. I don't see what trust has to do with it. I can't go around handing them off to other people.

All those stories need different endings——which is possible because it's my life and I do have the privelege of being able to write the story.

No me perteneces, tan solo me pertenece lo que sientes por mí.

Una parte de tu corazón me pertenece. Y no pienso renunciar a ella

Nada ni nadie, humano, monstruo o Guardián, habría podido arrebatarles aquel momento que ya solo les pertenecía a ellos.

Tú no me perteneces. Tan solo me pertenece lo que sientes por mí

Then she stopped on one tree, one that must be dying. The branches were bare, stark, hardly moving in the wind. How was it Iris had never noticed this tree before? Such a delicate web of boughs and knots and air, it made her feel for the bare branches, made her feel she too was a bare branch, all alone in the air, and made her want to possess, to own, the beauty of those branches. But how?

Of course, she had paid for her books –most of them. Like almost every other bibliophile on the planet, Tess had books, borrowed from friends, that she had never returned, even as some of her favorite titles lingered in friends' homes, never to be seen again.

Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession but securing a portal.

Was it mad to at least try to live as one wished, or as clost to it as possible? This life is mine, seh would think sometimes. This life is mine because of good luck. And because I reached out and took it. -Cora

This is all true, and yet not really an argument against ownership. It is easy to believe our own excuses, particularly if they're good ones, but in a world of 7 billion people, there is always someone facing Y who is doing X. All of us have to assess the plot of life we are allotted every twenty-four hours and figure out how we can make the most of what we've been given.

She knew in that moment what it felt like to want to own another being, declare them as yours.

Eliza: The problem with YOU is that you don't take the RESPONSIBILITY for anything@ You think you can just run around, doing whatever you want to whoever you want, and that it's going to be fine. That everything is just going to be TAKE CARE of for you, with no consequences. Cooper: No. I don't, and I have had consequences from what happened with me and you. Eliza: Yeah? Like what? Cooper: I lost you, that was my consequence.

Mrs. Beverly Jean Reinhoffer is our cat, of whom Chris has full custody. I never liked her and was glad to see her go.

I'm sorry," he said again, and this time he took those words and owned them.

I felt warm and happy,because the message in his eyes was,YOU'RE MINE AND I'M YOURS.