Owners Quotes - Page 9

• The owner of a Florida massage parlor has been arrested by police. "There weren't any serious violations," said the officers, "she just rubbed us the wrong way."

  George Carlin

  Humorous, Florida, Police

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Sadness, Sorrow

  1596 Constance. KingJohn, act 2, sc.2, l.68-9.

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• Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Wisdom, Heart, Intelligence

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (2003). “Chamfort: Reflections on Life, Love & Society : Together with Anecdotes and Little Philosophical Dialogues”

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• I got an owner that looks out for me. You can't beat that.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Basketball, Looks, Beats

  "On the practice court in London, Carmelo Anthony praises MSG chairman for looking out for him". www.foxnews.com. January 16, 2013.

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• We had a strong relationship with Walter Brown, and felt that he was the best owner in the league.

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Strong, League

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• But America was built by optimists. Optimists like my friend Amanda, who recently started a small business. When she went to buy her website address-her first and last name-she found that someone already owned it, but wasn't using it. So my friend emailed the owner of the site to ask if she could buy it. The owner wrote back.

  Eva Longoria

  Badass, Names, America

  Eva Longoria's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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• Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun

  Lloyd Alexander

  Fun, Cat, Two

  Lloyd Alexander (1956). “My Five Tigers”

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• The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them.

  Linus Torvalds

  Stupid, Reading, Technology

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• Dogs, bless them, operate on the premise that human beings are fragile and require incessant applications of affection and reassurance. The random lick of a hand and the furry chin draped over the instep are calculated to let the shaky owner know that a friend is nearby.

  Mary McGrory

  Friendship, Dog, Animal

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• Who ordained that a few should have the land of Britain as a perquisite, who made 10,000 people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth?

  David Lloyd George

  Freedom, Should Have, Land

  "The Sunday Times" Newspaper, October 11, 1909.

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• Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society can work. And this is, in principle, how Hitler treated the Jews. They were objects; killed not for ill desert but because, on his theories, they were a disease in society. If society can mend, remake, and unmake men at its pleasure, its pleasure may, of course, be humane or homicidal. The difference is important. But, either way, rulers have become owners.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Rights, Differences

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• The police can't stop an intruder, mugger, or stalker from hurting you. They can pursue him only after he has hurt or killed you. Protecting yourself from harm is your responsibility, and you are far less likely to be hurt in a neighborhood of gun-owners than in one of disarmed citizens - even if you don't own a gun yourself.

  Harry Browne

  Hurt, Responsibility, Gun

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• Building a business is like building a home. If the foundation rests on an unstable setting or is constructed with subpar materials, it doesn't matter if the rest of the home is perfect. It will never be a joy to its owner

  Thomas J. Stanley

  Business, Home, Perfect

  Thomas J. Stanley (2004). “Millionaire Women Next Door: The Many Journeys of Successful American Businesswomen”, p.201, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The ability to sell is the number one skill in business. If you cannot sell, don't bother thinking about becoming a business owner.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Thinking, Numbers

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• To be a successful business owner and investor, you have to be emotionally neutral to winning and losing. Winning and losing are just part of the game.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Money, Inspiration, Successful

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• If you really want to introduce corruption into legal marijuana, make it an all cash business.

  John Hickenlooper

  Marijuana, Cash, Want

  "Colorado's Governor on Marijuana Legalization" by Conor Friedersdorf, www.theatlantic.com. July 1, 2014.

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• With its hundred billion nerve cells, with their hundred trillion interconnections, the human brain is the most complex phenomenon in the known universe - always, of course, excepting the interaction of some six billion such brains and their owners within the socio-technological culture of our planetary ecosystem!

  Steven Rose

  Cells, Ecosystems, Brain

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• How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, Is that fine sense which men call Courtesy! Wholesome as air and genial as the light, Welcome in every clime as breath of flowers, It transmutes aliens into trusting friends, And gives its owner passport round the globe.

  James Thomas Fields

  Sweet, Flower, Men

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• But as a property owner of Orlando, I wouldn't rent to someone who is gay any more than I would rent to a person who is a practicing witch.

  Alan Chambers

  Gay, Orlando, Witch

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• When we build a public library, we don't have to pay to get in, but when we build a stadium, we have to pay the owner every time we go to a game.

  Jesse Ventura

  Games, Library, Pay

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• Inner sunshine warms not only the heart of the owner, but all who come in contact with it.

  James Thomas Fields

  Summer, Heart, Sunshine

  James Thomas Fields (1881). “Underbrush”

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• I can train any dog in 5 minutes. It's training the owner that takes longer.

  Barbara Woodhouse

  Dog, Training, Minutes

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• Dogs can be made to feel guilty about anything, including the sins of their owners. Cats refuse to take the blame for anything - including their own sins.

  Barbara Mertz

  Dog, Cat, Blame

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• 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

  Gun, Order, Want

  "Surgeon General’s Warning" by Ken Kelley, www.motherjones.com. January/February 1994.

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• Probably fewer than 2% of handguns and well under 1% of all guns will ever be involved in a violent crime. Thus, the problem of criminal gun violence is concentrated within a very small subset of gun owners, indicating that gun control aimed at the general population faces a serious needle-in-the-haystack problem.

  Gary Kleck

  Gun, Criminals, Population

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