Proprietorship Quotes

#1. There is, as yet, no sense of pride in the husbandry of wild plants and animals, no sense of shame in the proprietorship of a sick landscape. We tilt windmills in behalf of conservation in convention halls and editorial offices, but on the back forty we disclaim even owning a lance.

Aldo Leopold

#2. Justice is the infrastructure of proprietorship.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#3. Marriage is a partnership; not a sole proprietorship.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#4. My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the songs.

Leonard Cohen

#5. Do you know what you've done?" I asked in a bland tone. Annette gave me
an inquiring look. "You've gotten on my last nerve."
The table went crashing into her before she could blink, and then my fist found a home in
her perfectly arranged hair.

Jeaniene Frost

#6. I'm not a poet, but I was in the poetry program. And I'm also not much of a nonfiction writer, at least not in the standard sense of nonfiction, nor especially in the way we were thinking about nonfiction back then, in the late 90s.

John D'Agata

#7. Life has no happy endings, actually, no endings at all, just an ongoing series of beginnings. A story - whether it's happy or sad, whether it makes sense or not, what its meaning is - depends entirely on where you start it and where you end it.

Judith Ryan Hendricks

#8. To tell the truth I never had it so good. But I lacked the strength of character to bear such joy.

Saul Bellow

#9. Great and glorious God, and Thou Lord Jesus, I pray you shed abroad your light in the darkness of my mind. Be found of me, Lord, so that in all things I may act only in accordance with Thy holy will.

Francis Of Assisi

#10. Perseverance in object, though not by the most direct way, is often more laudable than perpetual changes, as often as the object shifts light.

Thomas Jefferson

#11. No one who truly understands grace will tell a person their sin is beyond it.

Kristin Billerbeck

#12. All the rich families who used to own all the British estates have gone bust because their children have blown their money.

JJ Feild

#13. There's plenty of intelligence in the world, but the courage to do things differently is in short supply.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#14. No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong.

Winston Churchill

#15. It is always easy to let the age have its head; the difficult thing is to keep one's own.

G.K. Chesterton

#16. Whatever you habitually think yourself to be, that you are. You must form, now, a greater and better habit; you must form a conception of yourself as a being of limitless power, and habitually think that you are that being. It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny.

Wallace D. Wattles

#17. People with motorcycles always assume that everyone without one wants a ride. I didn't want to offend him, so I said sure.

Hilary Thayer Hamann