Top 100 To Own Quotes
#1. I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars.
Mark Knopfler
#2. I want to make it as hard as possible. Gun owners would have to be evaluated by how they scored on written and firing tests, and have to pass the tests in order to own a gun. And I would tax the guns, bullets and the license itself very heavily.
Joycelyn Elders
#3. I want you to teach your children to say no and I want them to know how to mean it and back it up when they say it. I want you to teach your children to value themselves and I want you to teach them to own their bodies.
Sparrow Rose Jones
#4. You did smile, Bridgette, and you need to own it, because it was fucking beautiful.
Colleen Hoover
#5. Part of the American dream is to own your own property - something no one can take from you.
Henry Bonilla
#6. For White man, life is to own, or to try to own more, or to die trying to own more.
David Mitchell
#8. To brag little, to lose well, / To crow gently if in luck, / To pay up, to own up, / To shut up if beaten, / Are the virtues of a sportingman.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#9. My aim and my passion is to own and breed race horses.
Kylie Bax
#10. I think it'd be great to own a fun concept store with my friends and just sell books and records.
Tavi Gevinson
#11. Hope was never meant to be
A future shared alone,
As life cannot be won or lost
It was never ours to own.
Frederic M. Perrin
#12. If you want to own the life, you must first own the death! To own the death, you must understand it! To understand it, you must know to think like the death!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#14. (...) remember that to use a thing is not to own it.
Leigh Bardugo
#15. We couldn't buy Google on the IPO, but I knew I wanted to own it. I was gonna go big. It came out and went down a bit. I got distracted by something and didn't get in.
Charles Schwab
#16. Historian Larry Hise notes in his book Pro-Slavery that ministers 'wrote almost half of all defenses of slavery published in America.' He listed 275 men of the cloth who used the Bible to prove that white people were entitled to own black people as work animals.
James A. Haught
#17. In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.
Scott Adams
#18. The best way to own common stocks is through an index fund.
Warren Buffett
#19. I wanted to own her past, her present, her future. I wanted to be her first and last and fucking forever. I wanted to wipe everything from her life where I wasn't the center point of her evolution.
Pepper Winters
#20. You told me to tell the truth, and this is exactly why I didn't want to. You want me to think I'm selfish."
"I want you to own your thoughts and actions, and not be afraid of them. Accepting your limitations is every bit as important as embracing your strengths.
Dawn Jayne
#21. Regret is something you've got to just live with, you can't drink it away. You can't run away from it. You can't trick yourself out of it. You've just got to own it.
Anthony Bourdain
#22. If you allow dunya to own your heart, like the ocean that owns the boat, it will take over. You will sink down to the depths of the sea. You will touch the ocean floor.
Yasmin Mogahed
#23. I've never really collected anything other than old Atari cartridges. I only had, like, 12 Atari games as a kid, so at some point in my 20s I decided I was going to own all of them.
Ernest Cline
#24. I didn't know how to own him with the same surety. I didn't know how to want things for us. But he was teaching me how to be his.
C.D. Reiss
#25. treat you like a criminal," he said, showing a slide of an inmate in striped prison garb. Then a slide of Bob Dylan came on the screen. "People want to own the music they love.
Walter Isaacson
#26. My boyfriend keeps telling me I've got to own things. So, first I bought this car. And then he told me I oughta get a house. 'Why a house?' 'Well, you gotta have a place to park the car.'
Julia Roberts
#27. Tonight I'm not going to make love to you, Blaire. I'm going to own you. Do you hear me?
Mia Asher
#28. Respecting the Second Amendment does not mean abandoning common sense. The right to own guns in this country must remain, while we also must strengthen our laws to prevent mass shootings.
Claire McCaskill
#29. best businesses to own are those in which end markets are growing rather than shrinking. Absent
Lawrence A. Cunningham
#30. People are hungering for property - for a secure, permanent and independent link with spaceship earth that ownership represents and which only ownership can protect or defend. It is humiliating to possess nothing, to own nothing, and hence to produce nothing and to count for nothing.
Louis O. Kelso
#31. The governing ideal was not merely to keep up with the Joneses, but to be the Joneses - to own the same model of car or dishwasher or lawn mower.
Chris Anderson
#32. A man should be proud of his heritage - not arrogant, as if it made him superior, but happy to own it and live up to the best in its promise. Monk
Anne Perry
#33. For me to own land in Detroit, it was a badge of honor, and it was support for the city.
Manuel Moroun
#34. I'd like to own you. You keep standing there much longer in that little rinky-dink towel, and you're going to feel how much you own me in about two seconds." I
Penelope Ward
#35. No one knows what the top-performing asset class will be next year. Lacking this prescience, your next-best solution is to own all of the classes and rebalance regularly.
Barry Ritholtz
#36. Got seven women on my mind. Four that want to own me, two that want to stone me, and one says she's a friend of mine.
Jackson Browne
#37. I want more. I need more. I want to be the one - the only one in your life. I want you need to me. I want you to pine for me. I want to own every single part of you. I want your mind, body, and heart to be exclusively and implicitly mine.
Courtney Lane
#38. They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monarchs and Presidents, trying to understand what it meant to own a world and how big a world really was.
Ray Bradbury
#39. Humans don't just kill to survive. Sometimes, they kill out of rage. And they don't just eat to survive; sometimes, they eat when their belly is already full. They are violent and greedy. They aren't like any of the other beasts in the forest; they want to own it all.
Mark Van Steenwyk
#40. I'm not ready to own a place yet. I have the money, but I don't have the maturity.
Jennifer Lawrence
#41. At the age of 12 my ambition was to become a gangster. To be a wiseguy. Being a wiseguy was better than being President of the United States. To be a wiseguy was to own the world.
Henry Hill
#42. You used to have to own a radio tower or television tower or printing press. Now all you have to have is access to an Internet cafe or a public library, and you can put your thoughts out in public.
Clay Shirky
#43. Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to 'own' them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again.
Barry Ritholtz
#44. To see her is a picture-
To hear her is a tune-
To know her an Intemperance
As innocent as June-
To know her not-Affliction-
To own her for a Friend
A warmth as near as if the the Sun
Were shining in your Hand.
Emily Dickinson
#45. This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before!
Ayn Rand
#46. Hollywood wants to own everything. I don't want to own anything. I don't want people just to make content, I want to empower and teach them to create content they own that they can exploit in any medium.
Robert Rodriguez
#47. But by God, he was going to stop running from his cowardice. He had to own his shit - even if it made him hate himself to the core. Because maybe if he did, he'd stop trying to distract himself with sex and drinking, and figure out what he did want.
Apart from Blay, that was.
J.R. Ward
#48. You see, we need instruction on how to possess money without being possessed by money. We need help to learn how to own things without treasuring them. We need the discipline that will allow us to live simply while managing great wealth and power.
Richard J. Foster
#49. You have to accept the fact that not all your decisions are going to be right - and when they are wrong, you have to own it right away. I try not to have an emotional connection or investment in the decisions I make so that when they need to change, I can quickly move on to: 'How do we fix this?'
Lynn Jurich
#51. That book is filthy. Wicked. Dangerous. Yet it feels so comforting to own it.
Mark McLaughlin
#52. Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can never get it out? Territoriality.
Orson Scott Card
#53. Most investors, both institutional and individual, will find that the best way to own common stocks (shares') is through an index fund that charges minimal fees. Those following this path are sure to beat the net results (after fees and expenses) of the great majority of investment professionals.
Warren Buffett
#54. The body is like a companion, a friendly pet that follows one around ... One can continue to own the body and be responsible for it without identifying with it as one's identity.
David Hawkins
#55. As we settle into 2013, I predict this: We'll see companies that promote this shift from private ownership thrive. More people will be able to access things they simply don't need to own, and they'll save money and live better, cleaner, green lives doing it.
Lynn Jurich
#56. Nothing was really against her will. She got to own her life - her actions, her feelings and her decisions. So,
Serita Stevens
#57. Law-abiding people need to be able to own firearms to protect themselves.
Wayne LaPierre
#58. We have to take ownership for our words. Words are powerful. They can be devastating. If your words carry hate--if they shame others, if they make them doubt that they are loved--Hannah, you don't want to own words like that.
Kelly Quindlen
#59. I would prefer you did not apologize for anyone else," she said. "My father always says that if we were as quick to own our own faults as we are to apologize for those of others, society might truly advance.
Helen Simonson
#60. I found an online knife store. I'd rather go and pick one up so that I had it today, but then I noticed they had a category called. California Legal. Apparently, I lived in a state that had really solid knife control-but still allowed you to own a machine gun. Logical.
Marshall Thornton
#61. I love to sing and I do think that my strength as a singer is ... I think I have a voice that is certainly sufficient under most any circumstances ... but I think my strength is that I really am an actor and I really do have to own what I am saying.
Gregory Harrison
#62. I can never get over when you're on the beach how beautiful the sand looks and the water washes it away and straightens it up and the trees and the grass all look great. I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.
Andy Warhol
#63. Isabelle glanced back at them. "They're staring at you. Maybe their master died and they're looking for another vampire to own them. You could have pets." She grinned.
"Or," Simon said ,"maybe they're here for the hash browns.
Cassandra Clare
#64. 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
#65. I don't care if you want to hunt, I don't care if you think it's your right. I say, sorry, you are not allowed to own a gun, and if you do own a gun I think you should go to prison.
Rosie O'Donnell
#66. I tell myself it does not matter what one reads
favorite authors, particular themes
as long as we read something. It is not even important to own the books.
Helen Simonson
#67. Thoughtful, energetic, smart, determined. I tried to own and further those qualities and often mustered them up when they were dormant and something wasn't going my way.
Amy Richards
#68. Pride is a fault that great men blush not to own: it is the ennobled offspring of self-love; though, it must be confessed, grave and pompous vanity, Iike a fat plebeian in a rove of office, does very often assume its name.
Joanna Baillie
#69. You keep doin' what you doin' and the white man don't got to do it no more. He ain't got to sell you or put you in a coal mine to own you. He'll own you just as is, and he'll say you the one who did it. He'll say it's your fault.
Yaa Gyasi
#70. Its important for women not to find their confidence in a man. I think you really have to know who you are before you can truly fall in love and give your all, and I don't think a man can define you. You have to own that.
Jessica Simpson
#71. The only value objects have is what people are willing to pay to own them.
Vicki Delany
#72. Courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say.
Seth
#73. The organized churches must become schools of spiritual discipline where Christians are taught how to own without treasuring (Matt. 6:21); how to possess without, like the "rich young ruler," being possessed (Mark 10:22); how to live simply, even frugally, though controlling great wealth and power.
Dallas Willard
#74. The fucked up part is, I get off on it - on how wrong it is. I get off on fucking your mouth because it feels wrong to dirty you up, and because - because there's a part of me that wants to own you.
Alessandra Hazard
#75. Anything you think you "must have" usually comes to own you.
Joan Lunden
#76. MOTHER:
Why, just lying there, Jim, you run so fast. I never saw anyone move so much, just sleeping. Promise me, Jim. Wherever you go and come back, bring lots of kids. Let them run wild. Let me spoil them, some day.
JIM:
I'm never going to own anything that can hurt me.
Ray Bradbury
#77. The key to your happines is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours, then you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
Abraham Verghese
#78. That which you look upon as your own you may keep only so long as the world allows you to own it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#79. You need to own your feelings. Get more comfortable expressing yourself."
"How about I express you out the nearest window?
Greg Cox
#80. You must fall in love with your job, over and over again, to own it.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#82. Get rid of the idea that to own money or to be associated with it is "dirty" or "greedy" or "non-spiritual.
Christopher Dines
#83. Whatever you wear, you have to own it. Make it yours.
Paul Feig
#84. I'm trying to change the way people approach knowledge and information in general. I think that to try to own knowledge, to try to control whether people are allowed to use it, or to try to stop other people from sharing it, is sabotage.
Richard Stallman
#85. In the end, it's your job to own the role, and in the end, you are playing certain aspects of your own self, even.
Linus Roache
#87. What they prefer to that is to find someone to have power over; someone to own and to bully, to smash and to waste. She wondered if she would ever be in love.
Gwendoline Riley
#88. I used to own some hobby aircraft, but I got rid of them. I didn't have the time.
Connie Kalitta
#89. You don't ever want to know certain things, because what you know belongs to you, and there are certain things you never want to own.
Patricio Pron
#91. Gay men have to go through something to own their - who they are. They get beat up. They get ostracized. Whatever they go through, if they survive it, they come out very confident people.
Louis C.K.
#92. The first condition a community should set, if it aspires to be a nation, is to own the land whereon it lives, and supply its own needs.
Max Nordau
#93. You can feel that he wants to own you - not like an object but like a good dream he wants to keep having. He lets you know that you already own him.
Melissa Bank
#94. Before you're allowed to own a .44, your IQ should be higher than .44.
Quentin R. Bufogle
#95. I'm really interested in smells. I think I'd like to own a perfumery someday.
Kurt Cobain
#96. I want to mark you, and I want to own you. I want to fucking live inside you.
Annabel Joseph
#97. I want to own a network. I want to own a network where you can turn it on with your family all day long and get positive reinforcement.
Tyler Perry
#98. In Europe I couldn't be anything but a black cook working for somebody. My inspiration was to own, to be the chef.
Marcus Samuelsson
#99. When a record co. finds a guy now, they want to own everything. They want to own the rights to market that person's particular name. They want a piece of the action all the way through.
Mickey Gilley
#100. The impression I got during the research and interview process was that they are trying to own the disease and therefore own the cause which can ultimately be more profitable for some corporations and fund-raising groups.
Ravida Din
