“ 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- Copy
- 2K
“ The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time. ”
- Le Roi Jones- Copy
- 837
“ The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable. ”
- Sir John Vanbrugh- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self? ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 751
“ See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession. ”
- Robert Collier- Copy
- 914
“ I do not have what I own, nor do I have what I do. I only have what I am. ”
- Trinidad Hunt- Copy
- 4K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.8K
“ You got a harem of seventy girls, you don't get to know any of them very well. ”
- Billy Rose- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Whatever is not nailed down is mine. Whatever I can pry loose is not nailed down. ”
- Collis P. Huntington- Copy
- 398
“ Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being. ”
- William James- Copy
- 3K
“ The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. ”
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich- Copy
- 1.1K
“ A man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for. ”
- Arthur Schopenhauer- Copy
- 2.4K
“ People are so overwhelmed with the prestige of their instruments that they consider their personal judgement of hardly any account. ”
- Wyndham Lewis- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Bit by bit... she had claimed herself. Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another. ”
- Toni Morrison- Copy
- 3.6K
“ I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans. ”
- Kin Hubbard- Copy
- 3.6K
“ She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership). ”
- O. Henry- Copy
- 725
“ Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. ”
- Herbert Clark Hoover- Copy
- 835
“ It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
- 1.1K
“ 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- Copy
- 3.9K
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