A Property Quotes

#1. Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few: Creation is a gift, it is a wonderful gift that God has given us, so that we care for it and we use it for the benefit of all, always with great respect and gratitude.

Pope Francis

#2. Life is a relationship among molecules and not a property of any molecule.

Linus Pauling

#3. Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#4. So far as physics is concerned, time's arrow is a property of entropy alone.

Arthur Eddington

#5. As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property in nature but a mind is born to seek and find it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. Ontological necessity is not a property that can intelligibly attach to any nature other than God's.

David Bentley Hart

#7. I think sequels are fine if there's a story, so I think when there is a property that is worthy of a sequel, it could very well happen!

Roy Conli

#8. The system is not really particularly amenable to filmmakers who write and direct their own work. It's much more about the studio already having a property that has a marketable concept and then hiring the director on board.

James Gray

#9. I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.

Edward Hopper

#10. Clutter is not a property of information. Clutter is a failure of design.

Edward Tufte

#11. Life is a gift to be grateful for and not a property to cling to.

Henri Nouwen

#12. Forgetfulness is a property of all action. The man of action is also without knowledge: he forgets most things in order to do one, he is unjust to what is behind him, and only recognizes one law - the law of that which is to be.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. To say that life is nothing but a property of certain peculiar combinations of atoms is like saying that Shakespeare's Hamlet is nothing but a property of a peculiar combination of letters.

Ernst F. Schumacher

#14. Women are also property in our bible; adultery is a property crime in the Old Testament, not a sex crime.

Bill Maher

#15. The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#16. Every time you look at a house in Los Angeles, the real-estate agent will tell you that someone famous once lived there. It always seemed irrelevant to me: Does a property gain value just because Alfred Hitchcock used to eat breakfast there?

Claire Scovell LaZebnik

#17. The sweetness we taste in a piece of sugar is neither a property of the sugar nor a property of ourselves. We are producing the experience of sweetness in the process of interacting with the sugar.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#18. Truth is a property of sentences, since sentences are dependent for their existence upon vocabularies, and since vocabularies are made by human beings, so are truths.

Richard Rorty

#19. We tend to think of our selves as the only wholly unique creations in nature, but it is not so. Uniqueness is so commonplace a property of living things that there is really nothing at all unique about it. A phenomenon can't be unique and universal at the same time.

Lewis Thomas

#20. The straight line has a property of self-similarity. Each piece of the straight line is the same as the whole line when used to a big or small extent.

Benoit Mandelbrot

#21. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#22. Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

John Locke

#23. But the idea that God might want to change his mind is an example of the fallacy, pointed out by St. Augustine, of imagining God as a being existing in time: time is a property only of the universe that God created.

Stephen Hawking

#24. The definition of winning has become distorted. If winning the rights to a property brings with it hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, what have you won? When faced with the prospect of heavy financial losses, we have consistently walked away and have done so again.

Dick Ebersol

#25. Hereditary succession to the magistracy is absurd, as it tends to make a property of it; it is incompatible with the sovereignty of the people.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#26. I've done everything in the theatre except marry a property man.

Fanny Brice

#27. Creativity is not simply a property of exceptional people but an exceptional property of all people.

Ron Carter

#28. Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.

Malcolm Bradbury

#29. The question 'What was there before creation?' is meaningless. Time is a property of creation, therefore before creation there was no before creation.

Glen Duncan

#30. It was a bar code of a property, generic, ordinary and anonymous.

C. Robert Cargill

#31. Imperfect communities show that being a maximal resemblance class is not sufficient for being a property.

Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

#32. A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

James Madison

#33. Contagiousness is in larger part a function of the messenger. Stickiness is primarily a property of the message.

Malcolm Gladwell

#34. Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.

Samuel Smiles

#35. ...[F]reedom... is a property of all rational beings.

Immanuel Kant

#36. It's fair to say that, for much of my lifetime, New Zealand certainly was a property-owning democracy and working people, ordinary people, had assets.

Helen Clark

#37. As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

James Madison

#38. God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that the Earth should also be a property common to all.

Saint Ambrose

#39. But as a property owner of Orlando, I wouldn't rent to someone who is gay any more than I would rent to a person who is a practicing witch.

Alan Chambers

#40. They were making a deal for a property that clearly was a property that we wanted to own, so we had to act, and act as quickly as we could, and make the offer more attractive.

Jack Welch

#41. Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.

Thomas Carlyle

#42. There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason. Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

John Locke

#43. As a property developer, I learned a long time ago to choose your battles wisely and that, unfortunately, compromise is a given.

Kevin McCloud

#44. What people ask for has nothing to do with the value of a property. You might see a listing for $300,000 and think you should make a $250,000 bid. But hyper-focus on what the house is worth. You should know what the house is worth by looking at comparable properties. Base your bid on that.

Barbara Corcoran

#45. I must feel pride in my friend's accomplishments as if they were mine,
and a property in his virtues. I feel as warmly when he ispraised, as the lover when he hears applause of his engaged maiden.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#46. The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.

Niels Bohr

#47. He possessed the rare merit of making a property of his time and not a burden.

Anthony Trollope

#48. In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#49. This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries and from posterity.

Antoine Lavoisier

#50. Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.

William James

#51. Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.

Siri Hustvedt

#52. It now becomes clear that consistency is not a property of a formal system per se, but depends on the interpretation which is proposed for it. By the same token, inconsistency is not an intrinsic property of any formal system.

Douglas R. Hofstadter

#53. A property is that which not at all
Can be disjoined and severed from a thing
Without a fatal dissolution: such,
Weight to the rocks, heat to the fire, and flow
To the wide waters, touch to corporal things,
Intangibility to the viewless void.

Lucretius

#54. For wisdom is the property of the dead,
A something incompatible with life; and power,
Like everything that has the stain of blood,
A property of the living; but no stain
Can come upon the visage of the moon
When it has looked in glory from a cloud.

William Butler Yeats

#55. The Field isn't really much of a field, it's more like a property plot that someone never built on because they died or lost it in a divorce or something ...

Patrick Ness

#56. A lot of people live in a property that will one day be part of their pension, and that is true for me too. I have an investment I can sell with ease.

Anthea Turner

#57. A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming. The fact that several years go by without a flood does not change that probability.

Earl Blumenauer

#58. Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.

Errol Morris

#59. Truth is produced, not discovered, and is a property not of the world but of statements.

Lee Patterson

#60. I've just purchased a property, Edward, close to yours in

Kitty Neale

#61. Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#62. An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#63. I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you're not that crazy about a property you did that possibly they liked.

Jackie Cooper

#64. As a first-order approximation, I would say that phenomenality is "availability for introspective attention": Consciousness is a property of all those mental contents to which you can in principle direct your attention.

Thomas Metzinger

#65. We're taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American has an absolute property right interest in the fruits of his or her own labor. What I work for should be my property.

Malcolm Wallop

#66. Progress, then, is a property of the evolution of life as a whole by almost any conceivable intuitive standard ... let us not pretend to deny in our philosophy what we know in our hearts to be true.

E. O. Wilson

#67. The critic is actually describing a conscious representation of their interaction with the wine, and therefore the score of rating is a property of that interaction and not the wine itself

Jamie Goode

#68. I hated being a child because to be a child means that you are essentially the property of your parents, benevolently or not.

Molly Crabapple

#69. What good's a black face if it means I'm just someone else's property? Why give me these arms and legs just to carry someone else's load, not my own?

Stacey Lee

#70. This revolution - will it be a living?'
'We must hope so. Look, I have to go, I'm visiting a client. He's going to be hanged tomorrow.'
'Is that usual?'
'Oh, they always hang my clients. Even in property and matrimonial cases.

Hilary Mantel

#71. He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were merely a common part of the world's store of ideas which had always existed ready-made and which people only borrowed, like books from a library.

Milan Kundera

#72. Gratitude is a sign of maturity ... Where there is appreciation: there is also courtesy and concern for the rights and property of others.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#73. Our goals can only be achieved with a society that respects and equally protects the rights of every human being, old and young, rich and poor, regardless of gender, color, race, or creed. We must reject the initiation of violence by individuals or government as morally repugnant.

Ron Paul

#74. Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.

Abraham Lincoln

#75. There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue.

Tom Robbins

#76. It's long been common practice among many to draw a distinction between "human rights" and "property rights," suggesting that the two are separate and unequal - with "property rights" second to "human rights."

Richard M. Nixon

#77. Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the coercion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government. It stands for a social order based on the free grouping of individuals ...

Emma Goldman

#78. The acquisition of a book signalled not just the potential acquisition of knowledge but also something like the property rights to a piece of ground: the knowledge became a visitable place.

James Wood

#79. The preservation of liberty, not the promotion of efficiency, is the primary justification for private property. Efficiency is a happy, though not accidental, by-product - and a most important by-product because liberty could not have survived if it had not also produced affluence.

Milton Friedman

#80. an appointment with a local property tycoon who got into trouble with some Armenian gang members because he didn't want to pay them

L.J. Shen

#81. The courts cannot garnish a father's salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat.

June Jordan

#82. A modern economy is marked by the feasibility of endogenous change: Modernization brings myriad arrangements from expanded property rights to company law and financial institutions.

Edmund Phelps

#83. The knowledge and experience which produce wisdom can only become a man's individual possession and property by his own free action; and it is as futile to expect these without laborious, painstaking effort, as it is to hope to gather a harvest where the seed has not been sown.

Samuel Smiles

#84. Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#85. They shall wear elegant and ornamented robes, carry a sharp sword at their girdle, pamper themselves in eating and drinking, and have a superabundance of property and wealth; - such (princes) may be called robbers and boasters.

Lao-Tzu

#86. The idealized woman becomes property, symbol, and ornament; she is stripped of her essential human qualities. The devalued woman becomes a different kind of object; she is the spittoon in which men release their negative anti-woman feelings.

Bell Hooks

#87. It should go without saying that even the most narrowly construed eminent-domain power would violate individual rights. Either a person owns his legitimately acquired property or he does not.

Sheldon Richman

#88. Food culture in the United States has long been cast as the property of a privileged class. It is nothing of the kind. Culture is the property of a species.

Barbara Kingsolver

#89. Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms.

Horace Mann

#90. I have never watched property programmes. I watch Property Ladder, because I feel it's very rude for a director to work very hard on a programme and you can't be bothered to even watch it. So I do watch it, but I have to turn away when I'm on screen. It's quite unpleasant seeing myself up there.

Sarah Beeny

#91. It's safe to say that the value of the property had shot up considerably and in the end I made a pretty satisfying profit.

Andy Murray

#92. And then many things became very clear ... we learned perfectly that the life of a single human being is worth millions of times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.

Ernesto Che Guevara

#93. Capitalism is not a form of government. Capitalism is a symptom of freedom. It is the result of individual rights, which include property rights.

A.E. Samaan

#94. What private property does is connect effort to reward, creating an incentive for people to produce for more. Then, if there's a free market, people will trade their surpluses to others for the things they lack. Mutual exchange for mutual benefit makes the community richer.

John Stossel

#95. Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and flawed interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.

Ginny Brown-Waite

#96. We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy.

Jeffrey Sachs

#97. I am not a piece of property, damn it!"
"But you are in my possession."
She enunciated, "I think you are a lunatic."
"Since you are too, that works well enough." His mouth curled into a smile.

Thea Harrison

#98. Measures should be enacted which, without violating the rights of property, would reduce extreme wealth towards a state of mediocrity, and raise extreme indigence towards a state of comfort.

James Madison

#99. In a knowledge economy, a good business is a community with a purpose, not a piece of property.

Charles Handy

#100. the Los Angeles Times surmised that "hippies, property owners, . . . and police are involved in a conflict with social overtones that far transcend Venice." The police hated the hippies, "whom they regarded as wastrels infiltrated by hard-core criminals and left-wing political extremists.

John McMillian