Quotes About Ownership

How long will it be until the two countries I love forgive each other and move on . . . I'm not even sure what there is to forgive. Something about Cuba seizing ownership of oil refineries. It's all so confusing. Why should something as ugly as oil affect friendships between nations?

subject that got people aroused . . . was Who Owns America? . . . They had a chart going . . . filling in connections between the big local contractors and the steel companies and the city and county governments and the unions . . . and the downtown merchants. . . . They found they still did not know who owned obvious centers of power like the banks. They did not know who owned the local paper. Or the radio stations.

Gee Whillakers!" whistled Benjamin. "Think of owning a trick pup and never knowing it!" He scratched Whiskers behind his upstanding black ear, and then behind her floppy white ear. He smoothed her whiskery face. "Think of it," he repeated softly, "Whiskers a trick pup! Me with a trick pup!

You don't really own anything. Nothing is yours forever, not your body, not your youth, not even your mind.

Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.

you are the leader you've been looking for

It's all yours. Lock, stock, and cobwebs.

Had-I and But-Known looked back at her with identical icy stares of umbrage and reproof. She belonged to them. How dare she make such a fuss of Roscoe? He owned a perfectly good … well, adequate … um … anyway … Macho belonged to him. And if he hadn't trained Macho correctly, it was his fault

Lo necesario es caminar, caminar siempre, no estacionarse jamas; ser duenos del valle, de la planicies, de la sierra y de todo lo que la vista abarca.

But one does not cease to treasure a gem simply because one owns another that is larger. I would have loved to place that in the jewelry box of my memory.

There's a difference between owning your choices and blaming yourself.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the economy, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. Albert Ellis

Speaking of taking responsibility, a quick reminder about an essential universal principle: You are 100 percent responsible for your life. Always and in all ways. It's not your parents. It's not the economy. It's not your husband or your wife or your family. It's not your boss. It's not the schools you went to. It's not the government or society or institutions or your age. You are responsible for what you believe, how you feel, and how you behave.

The art of eliminating excuses means embracing the fact that your dreams aren't made or broken by anyone but you.

The key to demolishing the time excuse is to first embrace the fact that everything you're doing with your twenty-four hours is a choice. Your choice. A choice that you make and a choice you can change.

Yes, Liebling." He kissed the top of her head. "I am yours. Time to make sure you know you're mine.

Stay on top of your finances. Don't leave that up to others

I can manage the regret, if not my own finances.

You can't do it for someone else. No matter how much they motivate or inspire you, you have to do it for yourself. Your health is YOUR responsibility.

Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.

It was my pork chop. But that's ok. I ate his dog food.

I wash with my own soap-wear my own perfume...got to bed on my own sheets... have my own food products. I live on me.

They're now turning those seeds into intellectual property, so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend for our food and survival.

As farmers or owners, the poor peasants possess a piece of land. The excellent means of transport enables them often to sell their goods. At the very worst they can mostly provide their own food.