Property Quotes · Page 23

One of the paradoxes of globalization is that, in the developing world, we've seen massive reductions in property.

— Tony Blair

Due process requires some definite link, some minimum connection, between a state and the person, property or transaction it seeks to tax.

— Robert H. Jackson

If you are a seer, whenever you meet a man you will see all that he owns, ay, and much that he…

— Henry David Thoreau

We need not concern ourselves much about rights of property if we faithfully observe the rights of persons.

— Calvin Coolidge

I tell you that there are eighty-plus-year-old nudists cavorting on your property, Ashley O'Ballivan, and all you can do is laugh?

— Linda Lael Miller

Influence must ever be in proportion to property; and it is right it should.

— James Boswell

“Nonviolence cannot be used successfully to protect special privileges that have been won by violence.”

— David T. Dellinger

Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.

— Warren Buffett

Nothing can be clearer than that what the Constitution intended to guard against was the exercise by the general government of the…

— Melville Fuller

I've always taken risks and bought property well. As journalism wasn't particularly well paid, buying homes and selling them for profit improved…

— Anne Robinson

I am a rare millennial who managed to buy property thanks to a mix of highly lucrative TV panel show work and…

— Joe Lycett

It has been determined by Islamic law that the blood and property of people of Dar Al-Harb (non Muslims) is not protected.…

— Yusuf al-Qaradawi

I think a lot of people were under the impression that property development was a way of becoming a millionaire in six…

— Sarah Beeny

A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming.…

— Earl Blumenauer

We've excused all houses up to $750,000 from our property-purchase tax. We have more to do. There are other measures we intend…

— Christy Clark

So vast a sum, receiving all the protection and benefits of the government, without bearing its proportion of the burdens and expenses…

— Ulysses S. Grant

Oh, hey. This looks promising. " We came to a stop before a high, barbwire fence with an enormous PRIVATE PROPERTY--NO UNAUTHORIZED…

— Richelle Mead

If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must…

— Anonymous

Maybe learning how to be out in the big world isn't the epic journey everyone thinks it is. Maybe that's actually the…

— Meghan Daum

Only one time in my career I had that feeling [that this is not gonna get made], it was for this movie…

— Ang Lee

An established property can be a blessing and a challenge. On one hand you have all those fans of the original that…

— Joseph Kosinski

I, and all the complex things around me, exist only because many things were assembled in a very precise way. The 'emergent'…

— David Christian

Listing rights generally involves enumerating things you may do without interference (the right to free speech) or may not be done to…

— Cliff Asness

Neither camera, nor lens, nor film determine the quality of pictures; it is the visual perception of the man behind the mechanism…

— Helmut Gernsheim

Only native male citizens with a wife and children, a property, and a military rank should be allowed to vote and be…

— Varg Vikernes

“Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.”

— Henry David Thoreau

I think [food producers] should appreciate that we're only targeting their property. Because frankly I think it's time to start targeting them.

— Rod Coronado

Sometimes a seller has an emotional attachment to a property that's unrealistic when it translates into reasonable pricing.

— Ryan Serhant

The protection of a man's person is more sacred than the protection of his property.

— Thomas Paine

I like the idea of not everything happening between two human beings to be everyone's property.

— Martin Freeman

I'm not a tycoon or anything like that. Does my property amount to several million dollars? Of course it does.

— Ehud Barak

In no state in America is it legal for a landlord to demand their tenants lead a "healthy lifestyle" in order to…

— Mallory Ortberg

I put all my eggs in one basket and invested in property. I didn't do anything internationally - it was all in…

— Shane Filan

People can have a long-term life plan only if they know their private property is secure.

— Mencius

The welfare state is an enemy of private property. The excessive taxation used to support the welfare state is extremely dangerous.

— Charles A. Murray

Get arrested. Destroy the property of those who torture animals. Liberate those animals interned in the hellholes our society tolerates.

— Jerry Vlasak

As a property developer, I learned a long time ago to choose your battles wisely and that, unfortunately, compromise is a given.

— Kevin McCloud

Where there are children, people become neighbors; they don't merely hold property adjacent to one another.

— Diana Trilling

We as a music ­community have our own issues about advocacy, copyright, intellectual ­property, being paid fairly for the work that we…

— Neil Portnow

Reality is like a face reflected in the blade of a knife; its properties depend on the angle from which we view…

— Hsing Yun