Own Quotes

“The things you used to own, now they own you.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.
Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it isn't really about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. Maybe it isn't about who can sit and who has to kneel or stand or lie down, legs spread open. Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“Of course I need you. I go insane when I see you. You can do almost anything you wish with me. Is that what you want to hear? Almost, Dominique. And the things you couldn't make me do — you could put me through hell if you demanded them and I had to refuse you, as I would. Through utter hell, Dominique. Does that please you? Why do you want to know whether you own me? It's so simple. Of course you do. All of me that can be owned. You'll never demand anything else. But you want to know whether you could make me suffer. You could. What of it?" The words did not sound like surrender, because they were not torn out of him, but admitted simply and willingly. She felt no thrill of conquest; she felt herself owned more than ever, by a man who could say these things, know them to be true, and still remain controlled and controlling — as she wanted him to remain.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Some people live disconnected, in a world of their own. Their wishful thinking represents their sole veracity. But when the mirror smashes the reflection of their delusion, it will not falter to talk back. ( "The day the mirror was talking back" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Just because you have stolen someone's heart, luckily owned and occupied as a home, doesn't give you the audacity to enforce hurtful policies.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Do not depend on good motivator!
Find your words of self-motivation!”
― Toba Beta

“Every woman should have a purse of her own.”
― Susan B. Anthony

“A warrior fears the battle he missed. More than any fight he can make his own, he fears the fight that’s gone, that ended without him, that no feat of arms can change.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Fools

“Freedom carries sacrifice,”
― 3 Doors Down

“Butterfly upon my hand, A voice of wonder within my mind, not my own but the butterfly's.”
― Jazz Feylynn

“Despite the voice in his head that says he doesn’t want anything that’s owed to his father, Tom can’t wait to get his hands on it.
“Just take it. Hit your old man over the head with it. You’re dying to.”
― Melina Marchetta, The Piper's Son

“At dawn, they call in a napalm airplane, but it drop the shit damn near right on top of us. Our own fellers be all signed and burnt up - come running out into the open, eyes big as biscuits, everybody cussing and sweating and scared, woods set on fire, damn near put the rain out!”
― Winston Groom, Forrest Gump

“After a while, they start landing some relief in helicopters, and I guess the napalm bomb have frightened away the gooks. They must of figured that if we was willing to do that to ourselves, then what the hell would we of done to them?
They taking the wounded out of there, when along come Sergeant Kranz, hair all singed off, clothes burnt up, looking like he just got shot out of a cannon.”
― Winston Groom, Forrest Gump

“Some of these things I understand, some I do not.
It makes no difference.
The discussions give me an excuse to talk to him, fatherly conversations I cannot have with my father, who would like me to be a lawyer.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

“I would rather live on my own than with an unfaithful partner.”
― Steven Magee

“If you cannot pry from the mind of others, do you really deserve a mind of your own?”
― Florin-Marian Hera, Ten Loud Rocks

“During the USA COVID-19 lock down, some landlords were rendered homeless because they could not legally evict the tenants from their own home.”
― Steven Magee

“I can not take life in my own hands. It is too heavy.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“Own sustainability; for we owe it, to generations to come.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, SuaaS : Sustainability as-a-Service

“GPLC is the only nutritional supplement I know of that will treat Altitude Hypersensitivity on its own.”
― Steven Magee, Pandemic Supplements

“Quit the rat race, to lead your own.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, 10 GOLDEN Steps of Life

“Own your way, your own way.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, 10 GOLDEN Steps of Life

“You carve your own destiny.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, 10 GOLDEN Steps of Life

“In this world, you own nothing, you bring nothing, you take nothing. You carry nothing.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Smiling Brahma

“If you accept that only the soul is yours, you have everything. You don’t need anything else. You are everything in your own entirety.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Smiling Brahma

“Smiling Brahma is the affair of human-beings with their own mind.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Smiling Brahma

“I am surprised at how many people in their thirties onward appear to own no assets!”
― Steven Magee

“I will not have a relationship with a lady that does not own her own home.”
― Steven Magee

“Those who own up to their failures will profit and move on. Those who disown them will continue to pay for them over and over again.”
― Christine E. Szymanski