Quotes of Own - somelinesforyou

“ A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind. ”

- Robert Oxton Bolton

“ Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything. ”

- Morihei Ueshiba

“ We never really own a dog as much as he owns us. ”

- Gene Hill

“ He is rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. ”

- John Cage

“ Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you. ”

- Malcolm Cowley

“ I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want. ”

- Terence

“ A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man. ”

- Isaac Stern

“ If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest. ”

- Jimmy Breslin

“ He does not possess wealth; it possesses him. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God. ”

- Benjamin Whichcote

“ Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist. ”

- Stephen Ambrose

“ I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it. ”

- Jean Kerr

“ If a man owns land, the land owns him. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invated by worry, fret and anxiety. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks. ”

- Steve Pavlina

“ A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about. ”

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“ Few rich men own their own property. Their property owns them. ”

- Robert Green Ingersoll

“ God owns heaven but He craves the earth. ”

- Anne Sexton

“ He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. ”

- Dave Barry

“ If you want to know the value of an individual, ask not for the sum of all that he owns, but look instead to the total of all that he has given. ”

- Douglas K Freeman

“ In our society a man is known by the company he owns. ”

- Gerald F. Lieberman

“ The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store. ”

- Kin Hubbard

“ As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat. ”

- Ellen Perry Berkeley

“ The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret. ”

- Fred Allen

“ If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that he commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it. ”

- Stephen Colbert

“ Wall Street owns the country. It is no longer a government of the people, for the people and by the people, but a government for Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street. The great common people of this country are slaves, and monopoly is the master… Let the bloodhounds of money who have dogged us thus far beware. ”

- Mary Elizabeth Lease

“ People interpret things through their owns lens, just the way they do the Bible. You can find justification for just about everything in the Bible. I think man has got a great ego when it comes to his God, whatever that is. It just seems to me that someone who wants to take on God's punishment, it just seems a huge egoism to think that he should appoint himself to take care of God's punishments. ”

- Bill Paxton
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