Quotes of Owning - somelinesforyou

“ Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; it seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ I owned the world that hour as I rode over it. free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them. ”

- Charles Lindbergh

“ The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up, there's no law against whacking them around a little. ”

- Eric Porterfield

“ If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one. ”

- Andy Rooney

“ The most overlooked advantage of owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a bit. ”

- Eric Porterfield

“ Owning a home is a keystone of wealth… both financial affluence and emotional security. ”

- Suze Orman

“ Much as I like owning a Rolls-Royce, I could do without it. What I could not do without is a typewriter, a supply of yellow second sheets and the time to put them to good use. ”

- John O’Hara

“ There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home. ”

- Kenny Guinn

“ The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little. ”

- Joe Martin

“ Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician. ”

- Jeff Cooper

“ There is no delight in owning anything unshared. ”

- Marcus Annaeus Seneca

“ The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous. ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany. ”

- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

“ No nation became great by becoming rich. Neither does a man find enduring satisfaction in life by owning something — only by becoming something. ”

- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

“ Loving is misery for women always. I shall never forgive God for making me a woman and dearly am I beginning to pay for the honour of owning a pretty face. ”

- Thomas Hardy

“ If dogs could talk, it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one. ”

- Andrew A. Rooney

“ I don't see any justification for the federal government owning land, other than the Statue of Liberty and maybe a few parks, maybe a few refuges. But to just own land to do nothing with it I think is a disservice to the Constitution. ”

- Don Young

“ In the earlier days of railroading, and especially in the long period which came to an end with the death of Harriman, the typical railroad president was usually a man of great wealth who had secured his position by owning a large financial interest in the property. ”

- John Moody

“ The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now. ”

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“ I wanted to be looked at for the skateboarder that I was. I didn't want to be the 36-year-old skateboarder who's still holding on while owning a company at the same time. I wanted to make my mark and travel and accomplish a few things here and there and then get out. ”

- Jason Lee
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