Quotes About Ownership

and perhaps even a civil war in the US, if the citizens who own roughly 393 million weapons in their homes were to learn that private interests are in charge of the military.

Cats don't think they're owned by anybody. Even behind doors and windows, like amiable Wally, they're free. Always. That may, in fact, be the most important thing about them.

Greed had always seemed to me the most self-defeating of vices because one cannot own anything permanently; we have, at most, a life tenancy in our possessions. But I suppose the fulfillment was in the acquisition and maybe, too, someone who'd been tossed around by life needed the cosseting that money and things provide.

And concepts rejected when they came from someone else often looked better when rethought as one's own. Even the Emperor, it seemed, was not immune to that particular hubris.

That's the problem with folks nowadays. Nobody takes responsibility for their actions. Make a mistake and you pay for it. That's life.

When I write things down, I own them. They're no longer hanging in mid-air like cartoon bubbles or wisps of smoke. They're made real. Solid. Conversation doesn't last. Spoken words fade. We stop listening. Forget.

Chances are good that if you walked away from your house after the real estate market collapsed, the Cavs now own it.

We are more willing to invest in defending what is already ours than we are to take what is someone else's, because the motivation to avoid losing what we already have is greater than the motivation of gaining what we don't yet have.

Although he had not participated in building their fences, he must not cross their fields.

Selling covered calls is similar to buying a house and renting it to someone else. But instead of renting your house, you are renting your stocks.

What is looking like unhinged chaos is actually him in a place of comfort," tweeted Maggie Haberman, one of the Times reporters on the Trump beat. Haberman, who likes to assert a stubborn ownership of the Trump story, implies something approximating presidential strategy and point of view.

the president always needed someone else to blame; that nothing bad happened to him that was not directly caused by the failure or active malice of someone else.

It's my property and a gift from the Lord. Why should I pay tax on it?

Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.

Riches, like glory or heath, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

Just to make things perfectly clear between us, you can have my peanut butter, but my bed is off-limits.

There's a chasm between envy and desire. Envy is like wanting something that's not yours. But desire is different. Desire comes out of wanting what is yours, and still wanting it even if it's not yet there, but it's not envy.

People who constantly seek commitment and security will never taste love. And for those who will always want to own, posses will never get more than less. Love in liberty, live in liberty, let love be eternalized , go all out in love and get MickeyMized.

Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.

Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.

A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse. 'Tis good to keep a nest egg. Every little makes a mickle.

A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.

Pero ahora se le ocurre comprar perro, señorito? - No lo he comprado, Domingo; este perro no es esclavo, sino que es libre; lo he encontrado. - Vamos, si, es expósito. - Todos somos expósitos, Domingo