#owners

It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being. ↗

In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women. If a married couple come to settle in the town, somehow the gentleman disappears; he is either fairly frightened to death by being the only man in the Cranford parties, or he is accounted for by being with his regiment, his hip, or closely engaged in business all the week in the great neighbouring commercial town of Drumble, distant only twenty miles on a railroad. In short, whatever does become of the gentlemen, they are not at Cranford. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#humor #literature #men #ownership #people

I have gathered a posy of other men's flowers and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own. ↗

— John Bartlett

#ownership #thread #men

I wish I had [made that song]. No, I don't That would be to take it from somebody else. But it's mine for all that.' 'What makes it yours?' 'I love it so.' 'Does loving a thing make it yours?' 'I think so, Mother -- at least more than anything else can. . . . Love makes the only myness,' said Diamond. ↗

— George MacDonald

#ownership #love

Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself. ↗

— Bill Moyers

#freedom #ownership #freedom

Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the sky is not falling - baseball is such a great game that neither the owners nor the players can kill it. After some necessary carnage, market forces will prevail. ↗

— John Thorn

#baseball #before #carnage #condemned #falling

Sam Walton instilled ownership of the products in the stores into the collective consciousness of every associate regardless of what job they did for the company. ↗

— Michael Bergdahl

#collective #collective consciousness #company #consciousness #did

Ninety-nine point nine percent of the people that are gun owners are very responsible. ↗

— Jan Brewer

#nine #ninety-nine #owners #people #percent

I loved downers, almost any kind. Loved the colors of them. Loved them yellow... I did. I would just have a bouquet in my hands at night. ↗

— Rosemary Clooney

#any #bouquet #colors #did #downers

Tech executives have historically been owners of significant portions of their companies' stock so there is a propensity for them to diversify as a rule. ↗

— David Coleman

#companies #diversify #executives #historically #owners