Quotes About Ownership

Whoever controls the heart of the land, controls the world

Lo que es estupido es esforzarse por lograr algo que nunca será nuestro.

Cómo no iba a venir? Me habría sido imposible, con lo enamorado que estoy de ti. Tú me perteneces. Ya he arriesgado la vida por ti varias veces antes, y volveré a hacerlo si fuera necesario. Cuando se quiere a alguien como yo te quiero, todo sacrificio es poco.

Entrepreneurs are, by definition, active types, so how is it that so much business writing sags with the passive voice? ...If you are using the passive voice to evade responsibility, start owning up. If you are using it out of habit or laziness, or because you just didn't think about it, start thinking about it.

The long form of the possessive pronoun replaces the noun. completely.

Please let me go now," she said in a soft voice. "I can be of no further use to you." "Suppose I want to keep you as my own?" She pushed his hand away and sat up. "I am serious, Raven." "Perhaps I am too.

Joan commented, upon sentence, "My body is your property, but my love is not. My love is my own, and I shall love you fiercely while you kill me.

Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it.

the Kindle is a "roach motel" device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out.

As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

Some things belong only to the people who lived them.

Leaders inspire accountability through their ability to accept responsibility before they place blame.

The world can be such a fright, but it belongs to us tonight.

It's a book. It's mine. And it's done.

Someone said it's not wrong to have things. It's wrong when your things have you.

That was the beauty of horse stealing, though—you could always ride your stolen property.

Maybe that's what happens when you invest so much of yourself in something: whether it is a person or a place, your soul is loath to leave it. I looked for Danny's outline on those hills and thought maybe his ghost or spirit was still here, looking over the place that had been his. Maybe you stayed until you realized it wasn't yours anymore and then you went on your way.

Holding something doesn't make it yours. You realize at some point you're just keeping it back for yourself, because it's pulling away with equal force. You've got to cut the string from your finger and leave that wispy thread, like a baby spider on the breeze.

One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.

Our ego is our silent partner--too often with a controlling interest.

After twelve years in the major leagues, I do not feel I am a piece of property to be bought and sold irrespective of my wishes.

I'm Jace." He let her see his own fangs. "And you're mine." A claim made before all the wolves in the room. From now on, any wolf who touched her would face him—and death. She swallowed and tilted her head back to better meet his stare. "Hello, husband." The wolf within growled…Mine.

He'd found "Jane" first. Finders fuckin keepers.

It was curious that when we had been able to buy new clothes when we wanted we had never really appreciated them nor enjoyed them. You have to be in the position of needing things very badly indeed before you can appreciate possessing them.