Quotes About Ownership

invested with the dignity of possession.

Lord, Thou art my provider. Manifest Thy prosperity through me. Father, Thou art my riches; I am rich. Thou art the owner of all things. I am Thy child. I have what Thou hast.

S/M flies in the face of every attempt the state makes to appropriate our bodies, our labor, our time, and our imaginations.…the state is deeply offended by any group of people who say, 'My body doesn't belong to you, it belongs to me, so fuck off'…

Among all of us there was a leadership philosophy expressed to the entire organization: If there is a problem and you tell me, it's our problem. If there is a problem and you don't tell me, it's your problem—and you don't want to have a problem!

I think people's lives are there own.

Here is one of the most surprising facts about the Civil War: Lee believed that slavery was wrong, and had freed his own negroes long before the conflict came; but Grant's wife owned slaves at the very time that her husband was leading the armies of the North to destroy slavery.

REGLA 3 Si usted está equivocado, admítalo rápida y enfáticamente.

If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.

Let the other person feel that the idea is his or hers.

Si usted está equivocado, admítalo rápida y enfáticamente.

If we know we are going to be rebuked anyhow, isn't it far better to beat the other person to it and do it ourselves

When we have a brilliant idea, instead of making others think it is ours, why not let them cook and stir the idea themselves. They will then regard it as their own; they will like it and maybe eat a couple of helpings of it.

Feliz es sólo el hombre bien templado  que de hoy se hace dueño indiscutido,  que al mañana increparle puede osado:  "extrema tu rigor, que hoy he vivido".

If we know we are going to be rebuked anyhow, isn't it far better to beat the other person to it and do it ourselves? Isn't it much easier to listen to self-criticism than to bear condemnation from alien lips?

when we're wrong, they certainly expect us to own up to it.

How well you own up to your mistakes makes a bigger impression than how you revel in your successes.

It is better for you to take responsibility for your life as it is, instead of blaming others, or circumstances, for your predicament.

Softly, he said, "It is better for you to take responsibility for your life as it is, instead of blaming others, or circumstances, for your predicament. As your eyes open, you'll see that your state of health, happiness, and every circumstance of your life has been, in large part, arranged by you — consciously or unconsciously." "I don't know what you mean, but I don't think I agree with it." "I once knew a guy like you:

You take something that isn't your own and you breathe life into it. You create it—and it becomes your creation. You are an agent to help my brother express the finest kind of love.

to think that this was all my own; that I was king and lord of all this country indefensibly, and had a right of possession; and if I could convey it, I might have it in inheritance as completely as any lord of a manor in England.

La proprietà di cui si abusa è spesso fonte di disgrazia.

Everything else has vanished, so you take them now. Maybe if you're the one keeping them, I'll be the one feeling better.

Finders keepers is what they say, and I wanted to be kept.

You want these back, don't you? You want me out of here so you can come back and take over where you left off. I don't blame you. It's your body and your brain-and your life, even though you weren't able to make much use of it. I don't have the right to take it away from you. Nobody does. Who's to say that my light is better than your darkness? Who's to say death is better than your darkness? Who am I to say?...