#belong

My whole life I've been an over-giver. My general operating policy has always been, 'If it belongs to me, don't worry: You can have it!' ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#been #belongs #general #i #life

Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love - may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State, and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#bad #belongs #contract #discover #doomed

I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom. ↗

— Samuel Goldwyn

#belongs #i #object #screen #seeing

To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#better #business #ease #else #even

Democracy belongs to those who exercise it. ↗

— Bill Moyers

#democracy #exercise #those #who

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#belongs #nutshell #philosophy #put

I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side. ↗

— Katharine Butler Hathaway

#belonged #creative #creativeness #decision #equal

When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world. ↗

— Zahi Hawass

#belong #find #guardian #new #pyramids

As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity. ↗

— James Hillman

#body #circumstances #elected #myth #necessity

If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not squatter's rights of the heart. ↗

— James Hilton

#either #enough #forgive #heart #likes