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Owners Quotes (page 6)

Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servant? quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
I did not know that history is like a blood stain that keeps on showing on the wall no matter how many new owners take possession, no matter how many times we pint over it. Peter Carey
Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all the signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else. Joseph Heller
I would browse for half an hour or so in the secondhand bookstores in the neighborhood. Owning my own 'library' was my only materialistic ambition; in fact, trying to decide which two of these thousands of books to buy that week, I would frequently get so excited that by the time the purchase was accomplished I had to make use of the bookseller's toilet facilities. I don't believe that either microbe or laxative has ever affected me so strongly as the discovery that I was all at once the... Philip Roth
They were all as timeless as that moment of rescue, perpetuated but forever just occurring, these ornaments, utensils, and mementos stranded in the Terazn bazaar, objects that for reasons one could never know had outlived their former owners and survived the process of destruction, so that I could now see my own faint shadow image barely perceptible among them. W. G. Sebald
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "At first, the new owner pretends he never looked at the living..."
At first, the new owner pretends he never looked at the living room floor. Chuck Palahniuk
Immediately, and according to custom, the ramparts of Fort Saint-Jean were covered with spectators; it is always an event at Marseilles for a ship to come into port, especially when this ship, like the Pharaon, has been built, rigged, and laden at the old Phocee docks, and belongs to an owner of the city. Alexander Dumas
I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft. Bill Gates
Steal not this book for fear of shame. For on it is the owners name. And when you die the Lord will say. Where is the book you stole away. And when you say you do not know. The Lord will say go down below. L. M. Montgomery
Journalists should think of themselves as outside the Establishment, and owners can't be too worried about what they're told at their country clubs. Rupert Murdoch
Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future. Alberto Moravia
Eugenio Montale quote: "True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is..."
True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know. Eugenio Montale
Today, currently, business owners can go out and find out if the person they are hiring is eligible to work here or if they are not. We need to think about how we are impacting workers. Gary Miller
Jerry Greenfield quote: "One out of every 100 families in Vermont was a part owner of..."
One out of every 100 families in Vermont was a part owner of Ben and Jerry's. Jerry Greenfield
At my public school I had hated every other face for fear the owner was a lord, at university, I was to court the rich while doubting whether there should be great inequalities between incomes. Henry Green

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