Quotes of Ownership - somelinesforyou

“ Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership. ”

- Edward M. Forster

“ Ownership is to fear. ”

- Unknown

“ She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint ”

- Henry O. Porter

“ When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship. ”

- Barbara De Angelis

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

- Le Roi Jones

“ Ownership is to fear. ”

- Unknown

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

- Sir John Vanbrugh

“ You must lose a fly to catch a trout. ”

- George Herbert

“ Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self? ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Fred A. Allen

“ How many are the things I can do without! ”

- Socrates

“ The more we have the less we own. ”

- Meister Eckhart

“ See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession. ”

- Robert Collier

“ I do not have what I own, nor do I have what I do. I only have what I am. ”

- Trinidad Hunt

“ It is with literature as with law or empire — an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession. ”

- Edgar Allan Poe

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

- Billy Rose

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

- Collis P. Huntington

“ Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being. ”

- William James

“ The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. ”

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

“ Keep a thing seven years and you will find a use for it. ”

- Unknown

“ A man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for. ”

- Arthur Schopenhauer

“ People are so overwhelmed with the prestige of their instruments that they consider their personal judgement of hardly any account. ”

- Wyndham Lewis

“ Bit by bit... she had claimed herself. Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another. ”

- Toni Morrison

“ What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away. ”

- Unknown

“ I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans. ”

- Kin Hubbard

“ Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group. ”

- Unknown

“ She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership). ”

- O. Henry

“ Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. ”

- Herbert Clark Hoover

“ It is preoccupation with possessions, 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
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