Quotes About Lost Property

#1. Where is the motorcycle?"
"I ditched it. Someone will find it sooner or later and return it to the rental company."
"Not in the U.S."
"We're not in the U.S., in case you haven't noticed. People don't steal lost property, they return it."
"How did you get this car?"
"I stole it.

Anne Stuart

#2. (Since this was, after all, a Canadian revolution, the former rebels were compensated by the Canadian government for their lost property.)

Peter C Newman

#3. You look for lost property, not just people?

Steven Sidor

#4. If one find lost property in a locality where the majority are Israelites, he is bound to proclaim it; but he is not bound to do so if the majority be Gentiles.' -- Bava Metzia , fol 24, col. 1"

-- Hebraic Literature, page 31

Maurice H. Harris

#5. The entire federal budget for landslide research is $3.5 million a year - far less than the property value lost on a single day when 17 mansions slid down a hill in 2005 in Laguna Beach, Calif.

Bill Dedman

#6. Once he had drawn first blood, his war against the property of the state lost all its moral resonance.

Pat Conroy

#7. Being the first black Nobel laureate, and the first African, the African world considered me personal property. I lost the remaining shreds of my anonymity, even to walk a few yards in London, Paris or Frankfurt without being stopped.

Wole Soyinka

#8. 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

#9. Knowledge is an exceptional kind of property which cannot be lost or used up.

Eraldo Banovac

#10. If a worker is deprived of hope to acquire some personal property, what other natural stimulus can be offered him that will inspire him to hard work, labor, saving and sobriety today, when so many nations and men have lost everything and all they have left is their capacity for work?

Pope Pius XII

#11. Nothing is more hip than a corpse. The style is timeless. Death is trending.

Chris Campanioni

#12. The artist must be ecstatic about something.

Ted Shawn

#13. A fortune won in a day is lost in a day; a fortune won slowly, and slowly compacted, seems to acquire from the hand that won it the property of endurance.

J.G. Holland

#14. [But] the man who dares not expose his life in the defence of his children and his property, has lost in society the first and most active energies of nature.

Edward Gibbon

#15. Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion?

Michael Bloomberg

#16. In the sweep of history, George W. Bush will be seen as one of our greatest presidents because of the decisions he made to keep us safe after 9/11.

Ronald Kessler

#17. A person said on a PTSD site they weren't happy with their life but they were still breathing. I replied. Personally I love breathing I try to do it as often as I can between cigarettes ...

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#18. Only those to whom God is present in everything and who employ their reason in the highest degree and have true enjoyment in it know anything of true peace and have a real kingdom of heaven.

Meister Eckhart

#19. I've been able to carve out spaces for myself. At Sundance, I'm in the mountains - my property is private. I get on a horse and ride for three, four hours. Sometimes five. I get lost. But when I'm in, I'm in.

Robert Redford

#20. Patents stand for you when everything else is lost.

Kalyan C. Kankanala

#21. A man does not really begin to be alive until he has lost himself, until he has released the anxious grasp which he normally holds upon his life, his property, his reputation and position.

Alan W. Watts