Quotes About Ownership

Una volta acquisiti dalla tua persona, marcati dal tuo possesso gli oggetti non hanno più l'aria di essere lì per caso, assumono un significato come parti di un discorso, d'una memoria fatta di segnali e emblemi. Sei possessiva? [...] Sei possessiva verso te stessa, ti attacchi ai segni in cui identifichi qualcosa di te, temendo di perderti con loro.

Il viaggiatore riconosce il poco che è suo, scoprendo il molto che non ha avuto e non avrà.

An outsider was taking my place, was becoming me, my cage with the starlings would become his, the stereoscope, the real Uhlan helmet hanging from a nail, all my things that I couldn't take with me remained to him; or, rather, it was my relationship with things, places, people, that was becoming his, just as I was about to become him, to take his place among the things and people of his life.

Wci?? s? w ruchu te same przedmioty, przechodz?c z jednego obozu do innego, czy z jednego pu?ku do innego w tym samym obozie; czym?e zreszt? innym jest w ogóle wojna, je?li nie przechodzeniem z r?k do r?k dobytku coraz bardziej sponiewieranego?

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "El allá es un espejo en negativo. El viajero reconoce lo poco que es suyo al descubrir lo mucho que no ha tenido y no tendrá" (Italo Calvino)

e la guerra cos'è poi se non questo passarsi di mano in mano roba sempre più ammaccata?

El viajero reconoce lo poco que es suyo al descubrir lo mucho que no ha tenido y no tendrá.

Your relationship with objects is selective, personal; only the things you feel yours become yours: it is a relationship with the physicality of things, not with an intellectual or affective idea that takes the place of seeing them and touching them.

Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them.

Our husbands decide without asking our consent, or having our concurrence; for, to tell you the truth, I hate this boat, though I say nothing." Mary Shelley to Jane Williams, talking about the boat that Shelley and his friend Williams bought.

In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.

No man can lose what he never had.

I remember that a wise friend of mine did usually say, "That which is everybody's business is nobody's business."

But God, who is able to prevail, wrestled with him, as the Angel did with Jacob, and marked him; marked him for his own.

When we lead by persuasion rather than command, patience is essential. Leaders rightly cultivate the art of persuasion that allows maximum individual decision making and ownership of a plan. Often, a leader's plan of action must wait for collegial support—ever patient—until the team is ready.

If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

Of course, for whatever is amiss in these pages (and there will be much), the blame is mine. But permit me to be grateful if anything in them is true.

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.

Exodus 4:14). Let us not pass the buck of leadership because we think ourselves incapable.

Any man who has to ask about the annual upkeep of a yacht can't afford one.

The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.

[Spoken by Gollum:] Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious? It's ours, it is, and we wants it.

I want you to listen to me carefully. I don't give a shit what the council says. You're here, you're mine, and nothing they say or do will change that. Period.

The mere strain of modern life is unbearable; and in it even the things that men do desire may break down; marriage and fair ownership and worship and the mysterious worth of man.