Quotes About Ownership

Damn little gadflies think they can buy the sun out the sky, don't they?" "This particular one could probably afford it," I said grimly. "And the moon too, if he wanted the matched set to use as bookends.

Inherent power you possess as part of yourself. Granted power is lent or given by other people.

Porque durante toda su vida no había hecho más que renunciar, pero nunca había poseído y perdido.

He had preserved the best part of her and made it his own: the principle of her scent.

You will not deny me what is mine!" "I'll deny like a politician under oath," said Murphy.

Gratefully, I've lived long enough to know that if I can own my failures, others won't struggle with them either.

Boys, they can't take my refrigerator now. They'll never get my car now. I paid cash for 'em and they're mine, and I'm keepin' 'em!

When someone forces you - he unkindly borrows- he does not, can not own you- Remember your body, spirit and heart are yours and only yours, and when you start to process your sexual abuse you will get it all back.

I never wanted to go on stage alone because if you mess up, who can you blame?

Estaba comenzando a notar otra sensación para la que no tenía nombre. Se sentía dueño de su vida. Ya no volvería a ser un esclavo.

Nos miramos las manos, que teníamos cogidas. Respiramos hondo y aceptamos nuestra complicidad, no en el robo, sino en la destrucción de una obra de arte. –Al menos, ellos no lo tendrán nunca –dijo. –¿Quiénes son ellos? –pregunté. –Cualquiera excepto nosotros –respondió.

Crazy Horse believes that he will be victorious in battle, but if he stops to take spoils from the battlefield, he will be defeated. He tattoos lightning bolts on the ears of his horses so the sight of them will remind him of this as he rides. I tried to apply this lesson to the things at hand, careful not to take spoils that were not rightfully mine.

This is it, this is mine.

Shelving books incorrectly is as good as stealing them. It's almost worse.

The point is that, whatever other people's failings might be, you are the one to shoulder the responsibility.

Ideas are open knowledge. Don't claim ownership.

Every man is the author of his own life.

a lire belongs only to the person who lives it; life itself will claim the living; to live is to let live.

No hay nada que disimular. Tiene usted derecho a sus propios sentimientos.

Forgery is just the most dramatic example of the importance of origin. Arthur Koestler described a friend who owned a drawing that she first took to be a reproduction. When she later discovered that it was an original by Picasso, she displayed it more prominently, claimed that she saw it differently, and enjoyed it more. For her, its value went up.

Every time you ask for forgiveness, you declare that your life does not belong to you, but has been created for the purpose of Another.

It's a grace to regret. Grace allows you to face your sin, to own it and not shift the blame. But it is also grace that forgives what has been exposed. Grace forces you to feel the pain of your regrets, but never asks you to pay for them, because the price has already been paid by Jesus.

Grace allows you to face your sin, to own it and not shift the blame.

God owns our relationships—we do not—and that he has a higher purpose for them than we do.