Quotes About Ownership

Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

NEW YORK CITY— —stolen from the trusting Indians by the wily Dutch, taken from the law-abiding Dutch by the warlike British, then wrested in turn from the peaceful British by the revolutionary colonials.

However, it is doubtless true that in a vague way some of these poorer mountaineers, fiercely independent as they were, found something abhorrent in the ownership of one person by another.

Wie het gedaan heeft, heeft het gedaan en niet iemand anders.

The buck stops here.

We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.

When someone disowns an idea or even a person, they give up faith in or love for something or someone they used to call their own.

It would not be an exaggeration if one called the mind a world; it is the world that man makes, in which he will make his life in the hereafter, as a spider weaves its web in which to live. Once a person thinks of this problem he begins to see the value of the spiritual path, the path in which the soul is trained not to be owned by the mind, but to own it; not to become a slave of the mind, but to master it.

I sort of......accidentally....tore it to pieces. And threw it in the fire. Well, he was mine after all.

One more thing, Callie," he called after her. He was stripping off his dirty frock coat, watching her. "What?" "I don't call any man property—you know that we freed all of our slaves." "Yes, you told me." He smiled. "Well, I just want you to know that I do consider a wife a man's property. You'll be mine." "We'll just have to see, won't we?" Callie said sweetly in reply.

He says that he saw you first. That by right, you are his captive. He says that Buffalo Run really has no right to you, that he has pampered you, that he has scorned the Comanche ways. He says that you should be his slave, and that he intends to take you.

Truly believing that my ideas and words have a right to be taken seriously. And if I believed enough in my talents years ago to own them, who knows what I could've created?

The Franklin didn't only belong to Tasmanians. Nor our forests. They belonged to the world. We were custodians.

Don't ever live vicariously. This is your life. Live.

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Love's a dog in a manger.

Assume full responsibility for the dream. For "through the dream the man makes the matter his own; it is in his will, and he is responsible for it."19

The real harm of term extension comes not from these famous works. The real harm is to the works that are not famous, not commercially exploited, and no longer available as a result.

In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car.

Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.

Where there's property, there's theft.

When you stand inside somebody's library, you get a powerful sense of who they are, and not just who they are now but who they've been. . . . It's a wonderful thing to have in a house. It's something I worry is endangered by the rise of the e-book. When you turn off an e-book, there's no map. All that's left behind is a chunk of gray plastic. ~ Lev Grossman