Quotes About Ownership

It's finished. There isn't a stamp, or an error that I haven't collected. Not one. What shall I do now?" "I think I'm beginning to understand," said Moomintroll slowly. "You aren't a collector anymore, you're only an owner, and that isn't nearly so much fun.

Even potted plants got to be a responsibility, like everything else you took care of that couldn't make decisions for itself.

Allting blir svårt när man vill äga saker, bära dem med sig och ha dem. Jag bara tittar på dem och när jag går min väg har jag dem inne i huvudet och kan ha roligare saker för mig än att bära kappsäckar.

No well-bred person goes ashore on someone else's island when there's no one home. But if they put up a sign, then you do it anyway, because it's a slap in the face

Todo se complica más cuando se quiere ser propietario de las cosas

Even potted plants got to be a responsibility, like everything else you took care of that couldn't make decisions for itself.

The garnets would have gone in the rucksack," said Sniff miserably. "You don't need hands for that. It's not the same thing at all just looking at them. I want to touch them and know they're mine.

Du bist kein Sammler mehr, nur noch ein Besitzer, und das macht überhaupt nicht so viel Spaß.«

It's nice to have beautiful things that really belong to you.

Jag äger allt jag ser och känner mig glad åt. Hela jorden om du vill.

Hän katsoi jasmiinipensasta, jossa paljaat oksat olivat huolimattomasti sikin sokin, ja ajatteli kauhistuneena: Se on huollut. Koko maailma on kuollut minun nukkuessani. Tämä maailma kuuuluu jollekin toiselle, jota minä en tunne. Ehkä Mörölle. Tätä ei ole luotu muumipeikkojen asuinpaikaksi.

Maybe my passion is nothing special, but at least it's mine. - An Eightieth Birthday

She looked beautiful and very innocent, her vibrant blue eyes wide with what he guessed was shock. Her cheeks were stained pink with more of the nerves she hadn't been able to hide during the ceremony. As for her rosy mouth, her lips were slightly parted and ripe for kissing. 'Mine,' he thought primitively. 'Mine to touch and taste and claim at my leisure.

Knowing I was your property made me safe, made me make sense in his world. It was okay that I was a 'handful' because you had me under control. Malachi, you didn't even blink. You didn't have to think about it. You knew what would reassure him, and it was treating me like an unbroken horse.

Why Do we insist our lives are ours?

I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider. All of them are predators. They are dangerous but it's cool to have strong and powerful pets.

once belonged to Penelope (Reuben hadn't

I'm terribly sorry, Fergal!' 'What for? I'm beginning to feel as if it's mine, too!

What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.

Queen Scarlet took the dragonets." "Yes," said Nautilus drily. "We gathered that much from how she's practically been standing on the tallest mountain shouting, 'I have the dragonets of destiny! They're all mine!

Dad would never work for anyone else; he likes being lord himself too much. And he doesn't want to fight any more dragons. He'd rather hide from them.

Because people who aren't good at their jobs don't want to be measured, because then they have to be accountable for something. Great employees love that kind of accountability. They crave it. Poor ones run away from it.

you can't own one. They are non-importable

Be your own worst critic. When things go wrong it's tempting to shift the blame. Don't. Accept responsibility. People will appreciate it, and you will find out what you're capable of.