Quotes About Ownership

New houses, which are crap, because they don't build them the way they used to anymore. Old houses, which used to be good, because they were built back when they built them the way they used to, but which today, as a result of being old, are crap. So whichever kind of house you own, it's going to be some variety of crap, which means sooner or later everything in it will break. Dealing with broken things is the essence of home ownership, and it's exhausting.

You're mine, Wasp

At that moment I was sure. That I belonged in my skin. That my organs were mine and my eyes were mine and my ears, which could only hear the silence of this night and my faint breathing, were mine, and I loved them and what they could do.

My voice and movements are restricted by the things I own.

It was always difficult to get cattle returned once a marriage was dissolved.

I was born into a town and a family and the town ad my family happened to me. I own none of it. It is everyone's. It is shareware. I like it, I like having been a part of it, I would kill or die to protect those who are part of it, but I don not claim exclusivity. Have it Take it from me. Do with is what you will. Make it useful. This is like making electricity from dirt; it is almost too good to be believed, that we can make beauty from this stuff.

None of this I'd mine. My father is not mine- not in that way. His death and what he's done are not mine. Nor are my upbringing not my town nor its tragedies. How can these things be mine? Holding me responsible for keeping hidden this information is ridiculous. I was born into a town and a family and the town and my family happened to me. I own none of it. It's everyone's.

Own the error and correct it," he said. Hamood had a thousand proverbs and maxims. His favorite was Keep the money in your hand, never in your heart. He used that one a lot.

There were twenty-five million people in Yemen and at least thirteen million guns—after the United States, it was, per capita the world's most armed nation.

Uncaptured, unclarified, and therefore unmanaged things that you have agreed to do own a piece of you and give you no rest.

If the next action is not yours, you must nevertheless clarify whose it is (this is a primary use of the Waiting For action list). In a group-planning situation, it isn't necessary for everyone to know what the next step is on every part of the project. Often all that's required is to allocate responsibility for parts of the project to the appropriate persons and leave it up to them to identify next actions on their particular pieces.

Your health doesn't just happen; it's not something that takes care of itself as you go through life. You can't leave your health in someone else's hands, and the same goes for your wealth. They're both completely in your hands.

Everyone has a different lot in life. This is yours. What they have is theirs.

Basically, in Alabama if you have a pulse you can have a gun, as many of them as you want.

All doors opened for the leader of the free world and he strode into the White House like he owned it. Which unofficially he did. Though financed by the American taxpayers, it was really his house, his chopper, his jumbo jet. No one got to come for a visit or go for a ride if he didn't say it was okay.

And I can sell you the Brooklyn Bridge.

But then again, our life is what we make it, right? Bad choices. You can't blame others for that.

A squatter for life is inhabiting my mind. And he happens to be me.

When you didn't have much, you tended to keep what you had.

A measure of earth under your feet that you could call your own. Was there a more primitive concept? But nobody lives in the ether.

Some forms of socialism and collectivism are – explicitly or implicitly – based on the notion that many people are not competent to make decisions about their own lives, so that the more talented should make decisions for them. But that would mean there were no universal human rights, only rights that some have and others do not, denying the essential humanity of those who are deemed to be owned.

Every time local politicians propose to tax people in order to build a stadium for a billionaire major-league owner, they hold out in their right hand the promise that the increased business activity will more than replace the money spent. But they don't want you to look at the left hand—the jobs and wealth created by the money that people would have spent if it hadn't been taxed away for the stadium. •

Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.

that explains everything and excuses nothing.