#belongs

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#any #because #belongs #done #efforts

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

The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

#boy #country #country boy #crowded #destroy

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

Who knows? Maybe my life belongs to God. Maybe it belongs to me. But I do know one thing: I'm damned if it belongs to the government. ↗

— Arthur Hoppe

#damned #god #government #i #i do

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#both #breeding #candor #equally #frame

We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#class #culture #how #matter #mature