Quotes About Ownership

He pushed up a little, raising his head to look into her eyes. After a moment, weariness settled into his features. "It's too late regardless. I'm yours now." I'm yours. The beautiful opposite of what Peter White had said to her. You're mine now, he'd crowed, as if she were a purchased treat. The difference, it seemed, between a boy and a man. Just as Jude had promised.

Little children require their parent's unqualified love in order to survive and feel secure. Very soon, however, they need a tempered version of that devotion- parents who can give them the freedom to fail or feel sorrow or taste frustration, to fully experience their own pain and pleasure and learn from them. Therapists call this phenomenon "ownership.

I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.

Not to own the means of production can lead to premature death, but not to own the means of representation is also a kind of death.

Not to own the means of production can lead to premature death, but not to own the means of representation is also a kind of death. For if we are represented by others, might they not, one day, hose our deaths off memory's laminated floor?

And sometimes both of them forgot that what they were undergoing amid the clink of cutlery and crockery was a mutual interview that might decide whether or not they would own a common set of those items some time in the whimsical future.

A borrower may not lend the thing he borrowed.

A man is not a man until he leaves his home or has a house of his own.

Never interfere in a person's decisions about what he will do with his possessions.

The greatest courage you can have is the courage to admit your mistakes.

The man who never lends his books probably remembers how he acquired them.

The world could be a lot better if people correct their own mistakes rather than criticizing others'.

For a very long time, and among a large number of peoples, political power has belonged to the owners of the land.

I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours" (John 17:9).

God possesses absolute and unlimited rights over his creation.

But now I feel off the grid. I feel that I am not part of the culture. And because I don't have a car I don't really go anywhere to buy things. In fact, I have been in a slow process of selling and giving away everything I own.

The sunflower is mine, in a way.

You may know that the peony is Jeannin's, the hollyhock belongs to Quost, but the sunflower is mine in a way.

You must never steal another man's words. Ever.

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, "Ours."

What I am is my own business.' 'Not any more.' He let his voice sink down meaningfully on the words. 'You are now my business — mine to control just as I fancy.

Some people make a bad bed, they just have to lie in it.

A mature person is one who, having attained his majority, is able to make choices and decisions based on accurate perceptions about himself, others, and the context in which he finds himself; who acknowledges these choices and decisions as being his; and who accepts responsibility for their outcomes.

Il ne dit rien de ce qu'il pense. Il pense que personne n'est solide. Aucun groupe. Que c'est le plus difficile à apprendre. Qu'on est les locataires des situations, jamais les propriétaires.