Quotes About Ownership

I will take what is mine and keep it for as long as i want

Dogs were always a problem. They don't like me and they quite often disapprove of what I do to their masters, especially since I don't share the good pieces.

I like watches from that era. Back then a watch was power. Not many people could afford one. The owner of a watch was a man who controlled time...chains and fobs were invented so that even when a man carried a watch in his pocket, you could still see he owned one

Someone once asked him why he didn't just use a tape recorder or at least type answers into a computer or tablet. His response: Speaking or typing creates just a glancing relationship with the words. Only when you write by hand do you truly possess them.

When you write something by hand, slowly, you own the words. You type them, less so. You read them, even less. And you listen, hardly at all.

This whole country's stolen.

This is my country,' Lefty said, and to prove it, he did a very American thing: he reached under the counter and produced a pistol.

People felt they owned the trees. Their dogs had marked them daily. Their children had used them for home plate. The trees had been there when they'd moved in, and had promised to be there when they moved out. But when the Parks Department came to cut them down, it was clear our trees were not ours but the city's. to do with as it wished.

Couple this discovery with the realization that my things shouldn't own me and that life's meant to be lived, not displayed on Pinterest, and my sense is I've finally achieved something close to balance. I feel excellent about actually having

You know what else I haven't seen? Home stores. I've not passed the equivalent of Restoration Hardware or Crate and Barrel or Pottery Barn, so I get the feeling that no one's killing themselves working double shifts so they can consume stuff to make their homes Pinterest-perfect. Maybe the Roman message is to not let your stuff own you.

You are responsible for what you say and do. You are not responsible for whether or not people freak out about it.

The cruiser was his prize, and he'd fall to his death before he let another group of marauders steal what he had rightfully commandeered.

In the past, I was a perpetual victim; how I was doing in any given moment depended on what happened to me. Today I do my best to avoid this kind of 'victim thinking.' Instead, how I am doing is determined by how I respond to what happens to me.

It was a lot easier when we could just brand'em, Ben said. Then everybody'd know not to mess with our womenfolk.

I collect new books the way my friends collect designer handbags. Sometimes, I just like to know I have them and actually reading them is beside the point. Not that I don't eventually end up reading them. I do. But the mere act of buying them makes me happy.

A man takes care of his house, and a man takes care of his tools.

Why, some of the work that I have by me now has been in my possession for years and years, and there isn't a finger-mark on it.

It seems to be the rule of this world.  Each person has what he doesn't want, and other people have what he does want.

Each person has what he doesn't want, and other people have what he does want.

No, what was said in his case was that he, who didn't care for carved oak, should have his drawing-room panelled with it, while people who do care for it have to pay enormous prices to get it. It seems to be the rule of this world. Each person has what he doesn't want, and other people has what he does want. (Chapter VI)

Each person has what he doesn't want, and other people have what he does want. Married

Parliament may as well close down if a few men between them are to be allowed to own the entire Press of the country, and stifle every voice that does not shout their bidding.

It seems to be the rule of the world. Each person has what he doesn't want, & other people have what he does what.

Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.