Quotes About Ownership

She's always thought that one of the beauties of New York is that you can be from anywhere and within moments of landing it is yours.

Cuando venza la gran verdad, entonces la tierra será propiedad de todos. Se escogerá a los más sabios y a

At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned

You can tell it any way you want but that's the way it is. I should of done it and I didn't. And some part of me has never quit wishin I could go back. And I cant. I didn't know you could steal your own life. And I didn't know that it would bring you no more benefit than about anything else you might steal. I think I done the best with it I knew how but it still wasn't mine. It never has been.

Somebody has been fuckin my watermelons.

The man's labor that did the work is in the work. You can't make it go away. Even if it's paid for it's still there. If ownership lies in the benefit to a man then the mason owns all the work he does in the world and you caint put that claim aside nor quit it and it don't make no difference whose name is on the paper.

One thing about me, when I'm wrong I'll admit it. Well. That's a good trait to have.

The freedom of birds is an insult to me. I'd have them all in zoos.

All books are in safe hands with me. They're my children, my inky children, and I look after them well. I keep the sunlight away from their pages, I dust and protect them from hungry hookworms and grubby human fingers.

a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.

Are you really going to catch us and take us back to Esther? We don't belong to her, you know." Embarrassed, Victor stared at his shoes. "Well, children all have to belong to somebody," he muttered. "Do you belong to someone?" "That's different." "Because you're a grown-up?

I think I'll buy you from your father so you can say nice things like that to me three times a day. How much for her, Mo?

There's something really liberating about having some corner of your life that's yours, that no one gets to see except you. It's a little like nudity or taking a dump. Everyone gets naked every once in a while. Everyone has to squat on the toilet. There's nothing shameful, deviant or weird about either of them.

Anytime someone puts a lock on something that belongs to you and doesn't give you a key, that lock is not there for your benefit.

you want to be in charge of your machines, you have to learn to write code.

If you want, you can make him seem erratic and unreliable so they get rid of him. You can manufacture crises that might make one side or the other reveal the identities of other spies. In short, you own them. This is called the man-in-the-middle attack and if you think about it, it's pretty scary. Someone who man-in-the-middles your communications can trick you in any of a thousand ways. No man, I don't get scared. I'm always scared.

It was great, wasn't it—because it was ours.

She had borne so long this cruelty of belonging to him and not being claimed by him.

That's how women are with me said Paul. They want me like mad but they don't want to belong to me.

It is all possessions, possessions, bullying you and turning you into a generalisation. You must leave your surroundings sketchy, unfinished, so that you are never contained, never confined, never dominated from the outside.

I'd be ashamed to see a woman walking around with my name-label on her, address and railway station, like a wardrobe trunk.

Miriam entered. All alone? she said. Yes. As if at home, she took off her tam o'shanter and her long coat, hanging them up. It gave him a thrill. This might be their own house, his and hers.

But,' Gerald insisted, 'you don't allow one man to take away his neighbour's living, so why should you allow one nation to take away the living from another nation?' There was a long slow murmur from Hermione before she broke into speech, saying with a laconic indifference: 'It is not always a question of possessions, is it?

They remind me of mistletoe, which is never ours, though we wear it," said Emily to me.