Ownership Quotes

An infinity with God has always been a circle, not a straight line past all your mistakes.

~ Shannon L. Alder

If niggers were supposed to have their freedom, they wouldn't be in chains. If the red man was supposed to keep hold of his land, it'd still be his. If the white man wasn't destined to take this new world, he wouldn't own it now.Here was the true Great Spirit, the divine thread connecting all human endeavor--if you can keep it, it is yours. Your property, slave or continent. The American imperative.

~ Colson Whitehead

Thought is yours only. Nobody can alter or influence the use you mean to make of it.

~ Agatha Christie

Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.

~ Crazy Horse

All identification is for control and ownership.

~ Bryant Mcgill

I guess what I'm sayin' is, if you want to give Jules a job, be very careful.” “Why be careful?” Marnes asked.Marck gazed up at the confusion of pipes and wires overhead.“'Cause she'll damn well do it. Even if you don't really expect her to.

~ Hugh Howey

It is your life...OWN IT! Your life purpose empowers you and enables you to live life abundantly. Empowerment begins by taking responsibility for your life and being accountable for your actions. Empowerment is the courage to live passionately and purposefully each day

~ Thomas Narofsky

Own your mistakes, learn from them; apologize if you have to, and then, be unapologetically you.

~ Temitope Ibrahim

The bank - the monster has to have profits all the time. It can't wait. It'll die. No, taxes go on. When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can't stay one size.

~ John Steinbeck

Funny thing how it is. If a man owns a little property, that property is him, it's part of him, and it's like him. If he owns property only so he can walk on it and handle it and be sad when it isn't doing well, and feel fine when the rain falls on it, that property is him, and some way he's bigger because he owns it. Even if he isn't successful he's big with his property. That is so.''But let a man get property he doesn't see, or can't take time to get his fingers in, or can't be there to walk on it - why, then the property is the man. He can't do what he wants, he can't think what he wants. The property is the man, stronger than he is. And he is small, not big. Only his possessions are big - and he's the servant of his property. That is so, too.

~ John Steinbeck

And the great owners, who had become through the might of their holdings both more and less than men

~ John Steinbeck

That's not in my yard.

~ Katrina Katen

I want to give a name to my would-be killer. What should I call him? Something that will ease his presence in my mind, make him look foolish, like he is of no threat and never was, which is in fact the truth. I don't want his real name, which is meaningless to me, but instead something I control, something I own, some way to own that piano-idiot who attacked me.

~ Jacob Wren

Abuse grows from attitudes and values, not feelings. The roots are ownership, the trunk is entitlement, and the branches are control.

~ Lundy Bancroft

What we possess owns us, and we absolutely own nothing.

~ T.f. Hodge

It's the giving that makes one stronger, but sometimes the taking can make one weaker, if even vulnerable or blinding.

~ Anthony Liccione

Love that wants only to get, to possess, is a monstrous thing

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

For most of human history people owned other people. Then, only a hundred and fifty years ago, our ancestors figured out that was a bad idea. One day we’ll figure out, or our descendants will figure out, that people owning land they don’t live on or work is a bad idea too.

~ Dennis Vickers

...A vision from a universe where the Equal Rights Amendment--with its redefinition of personhood--is rejected by the house of deputies: A universe where to die is to become property and to be created outwith a gift of parental DNA is to be doomed to slavery.

~ Charles Stross

You may have bought my body, you may even have the papers to prove it, but don't fool yourself into thinking for a moment that my heart and mind were included in the purchase.

~ Nenia Campbell

They sell crap to buy you.

~ Toba Beta

God is not against you owning things, but he is against the things owning you.

~ Orrin Woodward

We buy things. We wear them or put them on our walls, or sit on them, but anyone who wants to can take them away from us. Or break them....Long after he's dead, someone else will own those stupid little boxes, and then someone after him, just as someone owned them before he did. But no one ever thinks of that: objects survive us and go on living. It's stupid to believe we own them. And it's sinful for them to be so important.

~ Donna Leon

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

~ Mia Farrow

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable.

~ John Vanbrugh

Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking.

~ José Saramago

In my mind, I could sense their roots under the soil, creeping in helical tangles of ever-increasing complexity outward and in all directions—out beyond the perimeter of the Helsingør Wood, out below Yami’s Under City, out along the banks of the river, out to the nearest coast and thereupon out into the sea; the roots crept down further along the continental shelf, downward into the abysses, downward into the ocean floor, burrowing under the corals and under trenches, and then back up again to sprout in the darkened forest on a foreign continent: all the trees of the world now had conjoined roots, for they were now of one conjoined consciousness!

~ Ashim Shanker

I never got int the library thing. I always liked that I could put my hand on a book when I wanted it. And to know I owned them, that was important too.

~ Deborah Meyler

Everything God has given to us is “for rent.” We can only manage what we have but the right of ownership belongs to God.

~ Sunday Adelaja

They had long ago found out that one could not be an owner unless one were cold.

~ John Steinbeck

I have gathered a posy of other men's flowers and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.

~ John Bartlett

Nobody ever washes a rental car.

~ Scott J. Simmerman Ph.d.

The best compliment someone can give me is stealing my idea and making it their own.

~ Jeffrey Fry

You can own an elephant or a bank or power thereof but if there's no personal breast bliss all you own is a lot of dead atoms and ideas.

~ Allen Ginsberg

You got a harem of seventy girls you don't get to know any of them very well.

~ Billy Rose

It is preoccupation with possession more than anything else that prevents men from living freely and nobly.

~ Bertrand Russell

Broad acres are a patent of nobility and no man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface it is 4000 miles deep and that is a very handsome property.

~ Charles Dudley Warner

The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.

~ Le Roi Jones

Whatever is not nailed down is mine. Whatever I can pry loose is not nailed down.

~ Collis P. Huntington

I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.

~ Fred Allen