Owners Quotes - Page 28

• The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Eye, Titles, Deeds

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.13

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• We shall at all times chance upon men of recondite acquirements, but whose qualifications, from the incommunicative and inactive habits of their owners, are as utterly useless to others as though the possessors had them not.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Useless, Chance

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.313

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• Let’s begin with capitalism, a word that has gone largely out of fashion. The approved reference now is to the market system. This shift minimizes - indeed, deletes - the role of wealth in the economic and social system. And it sheds the adverse connotation going back to Marx. Instead of the owners of capital or their attendants in control, we have the admirably impersonal role of market forces. It would be hard to think of a change in terminology more in the interest of those to whom money accords power. They have now a functional anonymity.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Fashion, Thinking, Would Be

  "John Kenneth Galbraith: Free Market Fraud' by John Kenneth Galbraith, progressive.org. April 12, 2006.

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• Stolen's a strong word. It's copyrighted content that the owner wasn't paid for.

  Bill Gates

  Strong, Stolen, Paid

  "Bill Gates on … the Competition". Interview with Walt Mossberg, Kara Swisher, www.wsj.com. June 19, 2006.

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• There are persons who are never easy unless they are putting your books and papers in order--that is, according to their notions of the matter--and hide things lest they should be lost, where neither the owner nor anybody else can find them. This is a sort of magpie faculty. If anything is left where you want it, it is called litter. There is a pedantry in housewifery, as well as in the gravest concerns. Abraham Tucker complained that whenever his maid servant had been in his library, he could not see comfortably to work again for several days.

  William Hazlitt

  Book, Order, Library

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• Ants in the house seem to be, not intruders, but the owners.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  House, Ants, Intruders

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.135, Booklassic

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• The greatest parts, without discretion as observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to their owner; as Polyphemus, deprived of his eyes, was only the more exposed on account of his enormous strength and stature.

  Joseph Addison

  Eye, May, Polyphemus

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• Consider what importance to society the chastity of women is. Upon that all the property in the world depends. We hang a thief for stealing a sheep; but the unchastity of a woman transfers sheep and farm and all from the right owner.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sheep, Thieves, World

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.237

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• Fear keepes and looks to the vineyard, and not the owner.

  George Herbert

  Looks, Vineyards

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.324

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• An animal on a leash is not tamed by the owner. The owner is extending himself through the leash to that part of his personality which is pure dog, that part of him which just wants to eat, sleep, bark, hump chairs, wet the floor in joy, and drink out of a toilet bowl.

  Diane Ackerman

  Dog, Sleep, Animal

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.329, Vintage

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• The owner of Mojo's was a suicide blonde, dyed by her own hand.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Suicide, Hair, Hands

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• on Broadway money rules. Like a host of vultures, the ticket brokers, the speculators, the craft unions, the agents, the backers, the real estate owners move in on the creative body and take their bite. The world of dreams breathes in an iron lung; and without this mechanical pumping it dies.

  Marya Mannes

  Dream, Real, Moving

  Marya Mannes (1961). “The New York I Know”

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• The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance. The late owner of this estate was a single man, who lived to a very advanced age, and who for many years of his life, had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister.

  Jane Austen

  Book, Men, Years

  Jane Austen (2014). “Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen”, BookRix

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• All dogs seem to be great linguists, according to their owners. They always understand every word that's said to them.

  Susan Ertz

  Dog, Said, Linguists

  Susan Ertz (1931). “The Story of Julian”, New York D. Appleton 1931.

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• casino owners spoke more loudly than any of the other kings of industry to defend their contribution to society. They could speak more loudly because theirs was the purest activity of civilized man. They had transcended the need for a product. They could maintain and advance life with machines that made nothing but money.

  Jane Rule

  Kings, Men, Gambling

  Jane Rule (2013). “Desert of the Heart: A Novel”, p.223, Open Road Media

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• In terms of professionally what I want to do, I want to play 15-plus more years, get to the Hall of Fame, and win a lot of championships and all that. I'd love to be the owner of a team one day. But it's way bigger than that. For me, my vision is how can I affect somebody positively every day? When you focus on other people, somehow good things happen to you. I think that's my goal. That's my vision.

  Russell Wilson

  Team, Winning, Thinking

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• To be fair to Pete, I had just come off a very difficult owner relationship with my then head coach and I was looking for a different style. So I didn't give Pete all the power he should have had. I don't think there's any exact formula for how it's done. It's really what fits each individual system.

  Robert Kraft

  Thinking, Should Have, Nfl

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• Any small business owner wears many hats. We [New View Window Cleaning] are the salesman, bookkeeper, scheduler, cleaner, customer complaint department, etc. If you aren't organized and willing to do all these things (at least in the beginning) you are better off working for someone.

  Tony Evans

  Views, Etc, Hats

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• Imagination is the supreme endowment of the poet and romanticist. It is a kind of second sight, which conveys the owner of it to places he has never seen, and surrounds him with strange circumstances of which he is merely the spiritual eyewitness.

  Marie Corelli

  Spiritual, Sight, Imagination

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• Cats, for the most part, seem indifferent to human activities that do not revolve around their needs and wants. They all but roll their eyes at the owners who expect their cats to do things for them.

  Joyce Jillson

  Cat, Eye, Needs

  Joyce Jillson (2005). “Joyce Jillson's Astrology for Cats”, BowTie Press

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• My grandmother was unsurpassable at sitting. She would sit on tombstones, glaciers, small hard benches with ants crawling over them, fragments of public monuments, other people's wheelbarrows, and when one returned one could be sure of finding her there, conversing affably with the owner of the wheelbarrow.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Tombstone, Grandmother, People

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”

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• A human heart is a skein of such imperceptibly and subtly interwoven threads that even the owner of it is often himself at a loss how to unravel it.

  Giovanni Ruffini

  Heart, Loss, Thread

  Giovanni Ruffini (1857). “Doctor Antonio: a tale of Italy”, p.299

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• With the Lincoln assassination, the South didnt feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.

  Candice Millard

  Slave Owners, People, Parent

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• But as some muskets so contrive it
  As oft to miss the mark they drive at,
  And though well aimed at dock or plover
  Bear wide, and kick their owners over.

  John Trumbull

  Missing, Bears, Docks

  John Trumbull, “M'Fingal - Canto I”

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• Recently while browsing in a secondhand bookstore I bought a paperback copy of The Intellectual and the City, but I was unable to read it. When I got home I discovered that the original owner had highlighted the entire book - literally. Every line on every page had been drawn through with a bright green Magic Marker. It was a terrifying example of a mind that had lost all power of discrimination.

  Florence King

  Book, Home, Cities

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.93, Macmillan

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