Ownership Quotes

“The first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.”
― Elfriede Jelinek, The Piano Teacher

“If you want your prayers answered, you get off your knees and do the one thing you’re praying someone else will do for you.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Don’t ever let your spouse or partner blame an outside person or persons for the ruin of your relationship or their past relationships. If two people are committed to one another then no one can change that.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Don't stop yourself from greatness before you've begun from fear or from self-doubt. You were put here on this planet to do great things, to pioneer change by way of your own personal uniqueness, and to express yourself and share your happiness with others.”
― Kaiden Blake

“You own me,” he said, water sputtering against his lips as his head bobbed at the surface. “You have lock and key, deed to the house, the welcome mat, all that shit. It’s all yours, baby.”

“I’ll have to take good care of my property, then.”

“And I’ll have to behave on and off the premises. I may be a little rowdy, but...I’ll use my manners.”

I sent him a small splash. “No swearing, invading personal space, or forgetting your pleases and thank-yous.”

A glimmer twinkled in his irises, and for a moment, it looked as if he was the one about to drown. “Damn straight,” he pulled me against him abruptly, nose to nose. “Now please get over here and fucking kiss me.”
― Rachael Wade, Love and Relativity

“Species tend to bite sometimes during the sharing of sex but we never break the skin. There are only two ways this usually happens. I had to bite you to assert my control if we fought for dominance during sex or because I wanted to mark you to show other males you belonged to me.” He blinked. “I am sorry. I lost control and I wanted to completely own you in that moment. I wanted all of you.”
― Laurann Dohner, Tiger

“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

“I wish I had [made that song]. No, I don't That would be to take it from somebody else. But it's mine for all that.'
'What makes it yours?'
'I love it so.'
'Does loving a thing make it yours?'
'I think so, Mother -- at least more than anything else can. . . . Love makes the only myness,' said Diamond.”
― George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind

“Ownership breeds slavery: with every single thing that you acquire, comes a new worry of not losing that thing.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Nothing in the tangible word that isn't living has any value beyond a dollar amount. Considering that dollars can only buy more tangible and inanimate objects, it would seem a far more worthwhile goal to instead learn to place value on the treasures of the mind. Memories, knowledge and skill together are the only things we will ever actually own.”
― Ashly Lorenzana

“What we possess owns us, and we absolutely own nothing.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“What do you have that was not given to you? And if it was given, how can you boast as if it were your own?”
― Anonymous

“I think men mostly have to learn to be anarchists. Women don’t have to learn.”

Vokep shook his head grimly. “It’s the kids,” he said. “Having babies. Makes ’em propertarians. They won’t let go.” He sighed. “Touch and go, brother, that’s the rule. Don’t ever let yourself be owned.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“Property is not the natural and obvious and inevitable concept that most people think it is.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“There is no ownership. There is only stewardship.”
― LeeAnn Taylor

“I learned that you can't truly own anything, that true ownership comes only in the moment of giving.”
― Mia Farrow, What Falls Away: A Memoir

“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, Bleeds My Desire

“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.
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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, Quietly in Their Sleep

“Losing is only happened in a mind that enslaved by idea of ownership.”
― Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

“It's up to you, not about you”
― Sonya Withrow

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

“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, Only the Deplorable

“It's paramount we take ownership of our lives. Sadness is greatly due to our having sacrificed ourselves over to a power outside of ourselves. We need to be proactive in creating positive thoughts and actions that will align ourselves with where we want to be and what we want to feel in life.”
― Kaiden Blake

“Though we are emotional beings, we are not our emotions. Remember this the next time you find yourself struggling.”
― Kaiden Blake

“Don’t complain, remain and sustain”
― Sonya Withrow

“Nobody ever washes a rental car.”
― Scott J. Simmerman Ph.D.

“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, You are Unstoppable!: Unleash Your Inspired Life

“Any relationship that developed power dynamics, where she thought she had the right to dictate someone else's behavior or have him dictate hers, was ended almost immediately. She could not stand the thought of hands on her that presumed she belonged to them.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods

“...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, Accelerando

“One can fully own a manufactured thing—a toaster, say, or a pair of shoes. But in what reasonable sense can one fully "own" and have "rights" to do whatever we want to land, water, air, and forests, which are among the most valuable assets in humanity's basic endowments? To say, in the march of eons, that we own these things into which we suddenly, fleetingly appear and from which we will soon vanish is like a newborn laying claim to the maternity ward, or a candle asserting ownership of the cake; we might as well declare that, having been handed a ticket to ride, we've bought the train. Let's be serious.”
― Carl Safina, The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World