Quotes About Ownership

In his prime, the young comic walked onto a stage with the confidence of a man who owned it, and by the time he walked off, he did.

You either walk inside your story and own it or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness.

Cats names are more for human benefit. They give one a certain degree more confidence that the animal belongs to you.

Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that nobody ever had the confidence to own it.

You can't really fake confidence. You know what I mean? Just be confident in who you are when you walk into a room, feel like you own it.

The greatest possession is Self-possession.

Our confidence needs to come from within, not without. From the quality of our hearts, not the quantity of things we own. After all, he who dies with the most toys...still dies.

If I hold onto something it's because I want it not because I want to display it or show it to somebody else. I've got some cool stuff, I've got some cool things.

It takes courage to be the author of your life.

But what I realize, here, now, is that it's not actually making the choice that takes courage. It's facing it afterward. Owning up to it, whether it's good or bad.

We should not be much concerned about faults we have the courage to own.

If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.

Property is theft. Nobody "owns" anything. When you die, it all stays here.

Everything is good . . . as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death's horses they run in span.

The world belongs to women. In other words, to death. But everyone lies about it.

It was puzzling to own trees—they were not owned the way a business is owned or even a house is owned. If anything, they were held in trust. In trust. Yes, for all of posterity

Men command the world that they know . Everything that men know they make their own. Everything that they learn, they claim for themselves. They are like the alchemists who took for the laws that govern the world, and then want to own them and keep them secret. Everything they discover,they hug to themselves: they shape knowledge into their own selfish image. What is left to us women but the realms of the unknown?

Another husband, another new house, another new country, but I never belong anywhere and I never own anything in my own right.

A parcel--taken from one place to another, handed from one owner to another, unwrapped and bundled up at will--is all that I am. A vessel, for the bearing of sons, for one nobleman or another: it hardly matters who.

We are joint heirs,' I said in a sharp undertone. 'The land will always be partly mine.' Richard smiled, a smile like midsummer skies. 'I shan't regard it.' He said sweetly. 'And you don't know the law, my clever little cousin. If they commit you to an asylum, you are disinherited at once. Did you not know that, my dear? If you go on with your seeings and your dreamings, you will lose everything.

It is for your daughter," she said. "For Jane. To sit on. She seems not to have a seat of her own but she must borrow mine." There

Men command the world that they know," she says. "Everything that men know, they make their own. Everything that they learn, they claim for themselves. They are like the alchemists who look for the laws that govern the world, and then want to own them and keep them secret. Everything they discover, they hug to themselves; they shape knowledge into their own selfish image. What is left to us women but the realms of the unknown?

In the meantime, let's agree that what makes a problem big is simply that it's yours.

For your information, Lester, there are at least five wonderful parts of the female body that can be viewed by the owner only with a hand mirror.