Owned Quotes

438 Owned quotes by 398 unique authors

A certain type of man, when he loves for the first time, his love is not really love, it is possession. Possessions don't have rights… — Laurell K. Hamilton
In the silence I heard Bastet, who had retreated under the bed, carrying on a mumbling, profane monologue. (If you ask how I knew it… — Barbara Mertz
The miserable think that what they have is never enough. Like the Little Mermaid, who owned no more than twenty thingamabobs, they say, "But who… — John Bytheway
She was a Privately funded spy ship owned by the corporation and headed by Juan Cabtillo. The Oregon was his brain child and his one… — Clive Cussler
It's funny," she said, with a strange hitch in her voice, "but I never wanted to be tied to anyone. Never wanted to be owned… — Larissa Ione
They were tricky, those demons. Could they be trusted? Of course they could be trusted. She'd created them. She owned them. They wouldn't lead her… — Rachel Cohn
They believe themselves Lucifer's equals, Cain, all these pitiful little gnats. But there is only one that we have ever owned to be our superior.… — Neil Gaiman
Japanese-owned cargo ship Tsimtsum, flying Panamanian flag, sank July 2nd, 1977, in Pacific, four days out of Manila. Am in lifeboat. Pi Patel my name.… — Yann Martel
A small olive-skinned creature who had hit puberty but never hit it very hard, Ben had been my best friend since fifth grade, when we… — John Green
As incisively pointed out in the documentary Food Inc.," an overwhelmingly large percentage of "new," healthy," and "organic" alternative food products are actually owned by… — Anthony Bourdain
Anyhow they’re always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Either owning or being owned. — Ursula K. Le Guin
The way Mom saw it, women should let menfolk do the work because it made them feel more manly. That notion only made sense if… — Jeannette Walls
I'm sorry," he said again, and this time he took those words and owned them. — Lauren Myracle
All that five thousand kids lived in those five thousand houses, owned by guys that got off the train. The houses looked so much alike… — Ken Kesey
I may be just an empty flesh terminal reliant on technology for all my ideas, memories and relationships, but I am confident that all of… — Stephen Colbert
At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned — Cormac McCarthy
You are very clever,' said the old man shyly. 'I would like to eat your brains, one day,' For some reason the books of etiquette… — Terry Pratchett
Everything said, you couldn't hope for a nicer day to have a half dozen ex-soldiers with hunting bows relieve you of everything you owned. — Patrick Rothfuss
What shop did this book come from? she asked. Her father was looking worried at the cooker. He always got rice wrong. I don't know,… — Ali Smith
All told, she owned fourteen books, but she saw her story as being made up predominantly of ten of them. Of those ten, six were… — Markus Zusak
...Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned… — Henry Jenkins
Besides, I'd seen a really nice pair of shoes yesterday in the mall and I wanted them for my own. I can't describe the feeling… — Marian Keyes
Bridget's anger evaporated and the sadness came back. The anger was easier. She owned and contolled it, whereas the sadness owned her. — Ann Brashares
He existed a step or two to one side of the common world, largely out of sight, a shadow, all but invisible. Whatever he owned,… — James Sallis
She wept for the hurt that he owned, a hurt she could never hope to remove. — Jonathan Maberry

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