Quotes About Ownership

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.' And as they stared after me, I went regally back down the hallway and up the stairs to Dad's room.

He who is a useful keeper of anything is also a better thief.

And as they have nothing but their persons which they can call their own, suits and complaints will have no existence among them; they will be delivered from all those quarrels of which money or children or relations are the occasion. Of course they will. Neither

For men born and educated like our citizens, the only way, in my opinion, of arriving at a right conclusion about the possession and use of women and children is to follow the path on which we originally started, when we said that the men were to be the guardians and watchdogs of the herd. True.

those who have made their own money don't just care about it because {5} it's useful, as other people do, but because it's something they've made themselves.

que es dueño de sí mismo es también esclavo, y el que es esclavo, dueño; ya que en todos estos dichos se habla de una misma persona.

You say that you have a dog. Yes, a villain of a one, said Ctesippus. And he has puppies? Yes, and they are very like himself. And the dog is the father of them? Yes, he said, I certainly saw him and the mother of the puppies come together. And is he not yours? To be sure he is. Then he is a father, and he is yours; ergo, he is your father, and the puppies are your brothers.

If everything belongs to everybody, nobody will take care of anything.

And that's another thing. What if I were to talk to Tanker, find out if he's happy at the Polonius Room, see if maybe he wants to come back? He was always such a key part of this kitchen. Rickey pointed a chocolate-smudged finger at Lenny. Don't you dare. If I decide I want to talk to him, I'll talk to him. I told you, I don't need you handling my business for me. I understand, Lenny said, making a mental note to call Tanker.

I am my thoughts, but the sources of my thoughts exceed me. I do not own myself, because the darkness comes before me.

Myrnin said softly. And how is it that you do not understand that HERE, in THIS place, this girl belongs to me, not to you?

Excuse me? You're a lady? I bought a title on the Internet. I own one square inch of Scotland. And you're changing the subject.

I am sorry my decisions do not meet with your approval, but nevertheless, they are mine, and the consequences are also mine.

From Shane's Point of View: Jester talking to Shane: What's the matter? You afraid you'd bite your skinny little girlfriend? Jester laughed. She's already someone else's, you know. I can smell the bite on her. He's marked her. Myrnin. Shut up, I said, and kicked him in the face.

You shouldn't have to tiptoe around your own home

Let's say that it belong to me as much as it belongs to anyone alive today. If I am, strictly speaking, living. The old word was undead, you know, but aren't all living things undead. I dislike imprecision.

The Great Library may have once been a boon, but what is it today? What does it give us? It suppresses! It stifles! You, sir, do you own a book? No, sir, not a blank, filled only with what they want you to read...a real book, an original work, in the hand of the writer? The library owns our memories, yet you cannot own your own books! Why? Why do they fear it? Why do they fear to allow you the choice?

It's your chili dog. Clean it up. It's your turn to clean. The house. Not your trash, which you can walk your leatherfaced-ass unto the kitchen to throw away.

Who's Jessie? My Yugo You have a name for your Yugo? Please don't tell me you're one of those guys who also names his dick. Unfortunately, I've yet to find the perfect name for mine, so it's in this netherworld of nameless identity right now.

They were tricky, those demons. Could they be trusted? Of course they could be trusted. She'd created them. She owned them. They wouldn't lead her astray.

He sold the business but kept the corner block building

Many years ago, he owned a neighborhood family grocery store on Avenue A in the East Village.

I'd always hoped but never believed that I could have such an adventure on my own. That I could own it. And love it. But it had happened. The notebook had made it so.

You shouldn't have a fox," the stranger says. "A fox isn't a pet.