#ownership

Once you're put out there in the public eye, people feel a certain ownership over you. ↗

— Mia Wasikowska

#eye #feel #once #out #over

She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership). ↗

— O. Henry

#invisible #lapel #ownership #plucked #proclaim

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#appetite #appropriation #child #comes #desire

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#consumption #mass #model #organized #ownership

Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity. ↗

— Cathy McMorris

#freedom #our #ownership #private #private ownership

It is important for women to have a choice, to have an opportunity to plan their families, because if they don't, the Republicans have said this is an ownership society. You are on your own, and they're going to begrudge that child everything, from WIC to a Pell Grant to health insurance. ↗

— Gwen Moore

#child #choice #everything #families #going

It's easy to underestimate the real cost of home ownership. ↗

— Suze Orman

#easy #home #home ownership #ownership #real

The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the end of it for a long, long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired. ↗

— Major Owens

#breaks #computer #computers #down #end

The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil? ↗

— Jeremy Paxman

#fund #idea #machine #manufacture #ownership

What scared me in that debate is that it's not about the ownership rules at all. The vast majority of people don't even know what the rules say, to be perfectly candid. Name all six of them. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

#candid #debate #even #know #majority