Quotes About Ownership

Mine would be, "We will stand together, he and I. One in victory, one in shame. Only then can I truly own the power of Halla. How sweet the moment of revelation will be, when he learns that he handed it to me." -SD the Pilgrims of Rayne

You want to know why we're the ones responsible?" Gunny asked. I looked up into a pair of wise eyes that had seen far more than mine. "Because there's nobody else," he said.

I was unwise enough to actually mention this in public a few times, and in fact to point out that there were two versions of the book now. One of them had somebody else's name on the cover, one had my name on the cover.

Authors can easily produce ebook versions of novels and shorter work which publishers don't own.

I know I'm old-fashioned, but there's just something about the act of looking at books versus taking in information on a screen, which is so one-dimensional. There's a sense of ownership that you have with books, a physical connection.

Who owns the NY Post? 20th Century Fox. Talk about vertical integration.

Every time you think the problem is 'out there,' that very thought is the problem.

Children learn many principles of natural law at a very early age. For example: they learn that when one child has picked up an apple or a flower, it is his, and that his associates must not take it from him against his will.

No dog means no disgusting surprises on carpets - thank goodness for those irrigating vacuums they sell at Canadian Tire - no hefty vet bills, no destruction of everything from eyeglasses to baseboards to legs of furniture, and no responsibility.

As prime minister, the pastoral lease question was a very vexing and torrid one for me.

I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.

The end goal is to make a piece that everybody has ownership over and everybody's proud of because everybody contributed to it. I think there's a communist, socialist vibe to 'Portlandia' to make it work.

I always listen to music, my passion and vice is music, I will be denied access to heaven because of the number of CDs I own, and I have gluttony for all types and colours of music.

Left to my own vices, all I would own is a Corvette, and it would be broken down.

If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.

Some of us have become so addicted to pointing fingers at others for all the wrong that happens in our lives that self-assessment has become synonymous with blaming the victim.

Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.

Everybody is not a victim.

I am not a victim. I do not blame anyone for the circumstances of my life.

When you're an actor, you often feel victimized - you see the end result, 'Oh, they didn't use this take; they didn't use that take. How come?' There's no 'How come?' with the director. There's only one person to look at. Walk over to the mirror if you want to know why. But I prefer that.

Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

We're too often told that our mistakes are ours alone, but victory is a shared benefit.

The Labour election of 1945 was a tremendous victory for democratic ownership of the economy.

I paid for every video I ever shot.