Quotes About Ownership

I know." He leaned forward, pressed his forehead against hers. "Just . . . give me a little time. I've never had someone who was mine before.

Yo también, Elena. Y aun así eres la dueña de mi corazón.

You are so perfect for me"—hot words against her lips—"I'd steal you if you weren't already mine.

Flirt with him if you want, Honor, but you're mine.

But … no one had expected Kaleb to come hunting. No one knew they had taken what belonged to him. No one alive anyway.

Is she yours?" "Touch her and find out.

You can't simply blame another." It was lazy and absolved one party of responsibility in a circumstance that both'd had a chance to influence. "I say that as a woman who so long blamed Aegaeon for what I became. But I" — she slapped a hand over her chest — "made choices along the way.

You cannot apologize for my feelings. You may apologize for your actions

Simply hearing or reading of such things was never enough for Faraday. When assessing the work of others, he always had to repeat, and perhaps extend, their experiments. It became a lifelong habit—his way of establishing ownership over an idea.

By 1770, fewer than 10 percent of white Virginians laid claim to over half the land in the colony; a small upper echelon of large planters each owned slaves in the hundreds. More than half of white men owned no land at all, working as tenants or hired laborers, or contracted as servants.

Women and land were for the use and benefit of man.75

It was all a fiction, of course, because the land was not really inane ac uacuum—void and vacant. As the English conceived it, however, any land had to be taken out of its natural state and put to commercial use—only then would it be truly owned.6

The first slave cargo arrived in Boston in 1638. Winthrop, for his part, owned Indian slaves; his son purchased an African.47

By 1760, only 5 percent of white Georgians owned even a single slave, while a handful of families possessed them in the hundreds.

I adopted a highway. I'm trying to teach it to pick up after itself.

I want you to sign your name on the bottom line, hand it back to Me, and let Me fill in the details. Why? Because I am God; because I have bought you; because I am trustworthy; because you know how much I love you; because you live for My glory and not your own independent, self-promoting pleasure.

Epictetus famously opens the Encheiridion this way: "Some things in the world are up to us, while others are not. Up to us are our faculties of judgment, motivation, desire, and aversion—in short, everything that is our own doing. Not up to us are our body and property, our reputations, and our official positions—in short, everything that is not our own doing.

The land doesn't know who owns it. It was here before owners, and will be here after, content with itself in all seasons.

If you're going to stay here, you're going to need to own the place so they can't take it from you. The only way you're safe, honeybun, is if you own it.

The only way to be safe is to own the place.

The voice says: There is a need for a prophet in the land. Allie thinks, but who? The voice says: Just try it on the size, honey. Remember, if you're going to stay here, you're going to need to own the place so they can't take it from you. The only way you're safe, honeybun, is if you own it.

Remember, if you're going to stay here, you're going to need to own the place so they can't take it from you. The only way you're safe, honeybun, is if you own it.

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Nothing seems interesting when it belongs to you, only when it doesn't."---Tuck Everlasting