William James Quotes

What belongs to someone, belongs to someone.

Amazing how the heart clutches at anything familiar, whimpering Mine!Mine!

You own a piece of me," he murmurs as he holds me afterward. "Good," I tell him. "And just so you know… I'm never giving it back.

Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking.

Once a book falls into our possession, it is ours, the same way children lay their claim: 'That's my book.' As if it were organically part of them. That must be why we have so much trouble returning borrowed books. It's not exactly theft (of course not, we're not thieves, what are you implying?); it's simply a slippage in ownership or, better still, a transfer of substance. That which belonged to someone else becomes mine when I look at it. And if I like what I read, naturally I'll have difficulty giving it back.

When you love something, you get to know it. Then you feel the ownership and if it changes, you only love it as far as you know it because then you're like, "What is this?"

How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.

Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in them.

Nothing is mine, I have only nothing but it is enough, it is beautiful and it is all mine. Do I even walk about in my own skin or is it something I have borrowed to spare my modesty?

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 or feelings; they are something to owned and controlled. He had spent more than a year trying to do just that, and failing.

I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.

I know I don't own Big Bird, but I own his soul, I feel.

What we share with another ceases to be our own.

You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.

A lot of the projects I've been involved with have been my babies, and I'm not going to give my baby to anyone else.

People can be incredibly proprietary about Superman. They think that the character belongs to them.

If something is mine, then I want to keep it.

They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them.

...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go." From Alice Hoffman's "Local Girls", pg.102.

Who are you?" I asked. "You know who I am," he replied. "I'm yours." ~Clea / Sage, pg. 105

You're mine, Pagan Moore. You will always be mine.

The hardest thing about Berlin is letting it belong to other people.

What is it about possessing things? Why do we feel the need to own what we love, and why do we become jerks when we do? We've all been there- you want something, to possess it. By possessing something you lose it. You finally win the girl of your dreams, the first thing you do is change her. The little things she does with her hair, the way she wears her clothes or the way she chews her gum. Pretty soon what you like, what you changed, what you don't like, blends together like a watercolor in the rain.

What's yours is mine and what's mine is my own.

It is mine, I tell you. My own. My precious. Yes, my precious.