Quotes About Ownership

PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.

It is bad enough to see one's own good things fathered on other people, but it is worse to have other people's rubbish fathered upon oneself.

[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own.

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

As soon as you see a mistake and don't fix it, it becomes your mistake.

If you mess up, 'fess up.

No man actually owns a fortune; it owns him.

The past is our only real possession in life. It is the one piece of property of which time cannot deprive us; it is our own in a way that nothing else in life is. In a word, we are our past; we do not cling to it, it clings to us.

It is because people live in the things they possess instead of in their relationship to God that God seems at times to be cruel.

I got up and went into the library to see how much I owed them. The librarian said $32 even and you've owed it for eighteen years. I didn't deny anything. Because I don't understand how time passes. I have had those books. I have often thought of them. The library is only two blocks away.

Patents Act, 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this

Rationally speaking, blaming one's behavior on alcohol or drugs is like blaming the ladder by which you descended into a pit, or the staircase that took you down to a cellar, for what you found there.

Parents always have their own ideas about how they wish their children to be brought up, both morally and spiritually. But they must understand that their children are not their property; that their children are entitled to pursue happiness in any way they wish.

When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in the air to be taken, and to lose the sense that somebody once made it.

You need to own your feelings. Get more comfortable expressing yourself." "How about I express you out the nearest window?

I love to sing and I do think that my strength as a singer is... I think I have a voice that is certainly sufficient under most any circumstances... but I think my strength is that I really am an actor and I really do have to own what I am saying.

Leave my copy alone. You don't know what you're doing.

In Greenland there is no ownership of land. What you own is your house, your dogs, your sleds and kayaks. Everyone is fed. It is a food-sharing society in which the whole population is kept in mind--the widows, elderly, infirm, and ill are always taken care of. Jens said, "We weren't born to buy and sell, but to be out on the ice with our families.

If you are one of those lucky persons who own a pen that writes underwater, you might try living in a swimming pool.

S'il y a une chose à laquelle tu tiens par-dessus tout, n'essaie pas de la retenir. Si elle te revient, elle sera à toi pour toujours. Si elle ne te revient pas, c'est que dès le départ elle n'étais pas à toi.

Dogs and wolves are the same, except for one difference: dogs live at home, food and water are provided and they sleep in their owner's bed. Wolves, meanwhile, live on mountains, have to find their own food and somewhere to kip . . . I want a team full of hungry and ambitious wolves.' (Boza Maljkovic)

Este país se divide en dos: en los que tienen miedo y en los que tienen rabia. Ustedes, burgueses, son los que tienen miedo ... Nosotros vivimos con rabia. Siempre con rabia. Nada poseemos.

Feet are what connect you to the ground, and when you are poor, none of that ground belongs to you.

Only her master knew her true name, for in the Magic Kingdom to know a name was to own the being that carried it.