Quotes About Ownership

The more we have the less we own.

Indeed, the more we are our own possession, the less we are God's possession.

Furthermore, we should keep all things only as if they had been merely lent and not given to us, without any sense of possessiveness, whether it be our body or soul, our senses, faculties, worldly goods or honour, friends, relations, house or home or anything whatsoever.

After school, Liam romantically held my hand tightly as he walked me to the car. Our entire stroll there, through the crowded school halls, he introduced me to everyone we passed saying, "This is Tatum—she's my girlfriend." He did it because he said he needed to make it clear—stake his claim: I was taken.

I'm looking forward to being a mom and a wife and a business owner.

What is it? A prize or something? No. It's not a prize and I'm not a prize. But it's mine. It belongs to me and I can only give it away once, and I want to be so sure when it happens. I don't want to say that the first time for me was bad or it didn't mean a thing.

She shrugged. "I don't have my horse anymore." " Your horse? The horse was mine." "Don't be ridiculous." Evanjalin continued walking up the track. "You would never have stolen the horse in Sarnak if I didn't encourage you. So I consider it mine.

Are you a slave?" she asked harshly. "In Serker, only slaves are etched." "With the names of the men that own them," he said, his eyes meeting her. It sickened him to think of Lirah being owned by anyone. "I am a Serker, Lirah," he said softly. "My body is etched with the names of the three women that own me. My queen. My mother. My woman.

Toto sits up, holding tight to the bar and staring out at the world. He drops a new toy that came with the pram and starts crying. Jimmy picks it up and crouches, looking into his caramel eyes. 'I'm Jimmy,' he whispers, 'and you're the first thing I've ever sort of owned and I don't want to get this wrong.

We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back.

You can feel that he wants to own you - not like an object but like a good dream he wants to keep having. He lets you know that you already own him.

You can feel like he wants to own you,-not like an object but like a good dream he wants to keep having.

She stepped closer to one of the statues. It looked wide-eyed, almost afraid as she reached out her hand. One of the women reached out and snatched Aislinn's still uplifted hand. "No." The women spoke all at once, not to her or to Keenan, but softly-as if to themselves-in a sibilant whisper. "He's ours. Fair exchange. Not yours to interfere.

I'm mine. Not anyone else's.

This world is yours.

Go apologize because it's your fault because you are the man. If you didn't get this wrong, you will get something else wrong.

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.

The greatest misfortune for a poor country is that, instead of producing wealth, it produces rich people. But rich people without wealth. In fact, it would be better to call them moneyed rather than rich: a rich person is one who possesses the means of production. A rich person is someone who generates money and provides jobs. A moneyed person is someone who quite simply has some cash. Or rather, he thinks he has. For, in reality, it's the cash that has him.

As nossas estradas já tiveram a timidez dos rios e a suavidade das mulheres. E pediam licença antes de nascer. Agora, as estradas tomam posse da paisagem e estendem as suas grandes pernas sobre o Tempo, como fazem os donos do mundo.

Atribuir un nombre es un acto de poder. La primera y más definitiva ocupación de un territorio ajeno.

O que não é nosso num mundo onde tudo nos roubam?

I learned that you can't truly own anything, that true ownership comes only in the moment of giving.

the principle of prior appropriation, which held that water belonged to whoever first put it to use, regardless of the user's proximity to the source, and that the priority remained in force as long as the use continued. The rule of prior appropriation, in its simplest formulation, was "first in time, first in right.

The fund owns shares in over eight thousand companies, which effectively means that Norwegians own over 1 per cent of the world's listed companies, almost 2 per cent of Europe's and 0.7 per cent of Asia's.