Top 25 Property Quotes of 110 - Page 4

I've always been interested in finding out more about the properties of acoustics.

I've always been interested in finding out more about the properties of acoustics.

Z'EV

Acoustics, Findings, Property

Source: pitchfork.com

So government acts as a safeguard of our property.

William Weld

Government, Property

Property is only another name for monopoly.

William Stanley Jevons

Names, Monopoly, Property

William Stanley Jevons (1970). “The Theory of Political Economy”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives?

William H. Wharton

Law, Possibility, Property

Things work once you have property, trade and contract in place.

William G. Kline

Contracts, Trade, Property

Source: www.stephenhicks.org

For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty.

Virginia Woolf

Eye, Strange, Property

Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.179, Oxford University Press

Where there's property, there's theft.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Stealing, Theft, Property

Property belongs to man and not man to property.

Theodore Roosevelt

Men, Property

Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910

If it's in the bin, it's public property.

Sophie Kinsella

Property, Ifs

I put all my eggs in one basket and invested in property. I didn't do anything internationally - it was all in Ireland.

Shane Filan

Eggs, Baskets, Property

The freer the market is and the more respect you have for private property, the better the environment is protected.

Ron Paul

Environment, Property, Protected

Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ideas, Property

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848”, p.155, Harvard University Press

The property of others is always more inviting than our own; and that which we ourselves possess is most pleasing to others.

Publilius Syrus

Property, Inviting

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

Pietro Aretino

Scholarship, Property, Disagreeable

Pietro Aretino (1926). “The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix”

We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again.

Paddy Ashdown

Trying, Produce, Property

No freedom is secure if your property rights are not secure.

Neal Boortz

Rights, Ifs, Property

Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.

Michel de Montaigne

Certain, Property, Decided

Michel de Montaigne, Marvin Lowenthal (1999). “The Autobiography of Michel de Montaigne: Comprising the Life of the Wisest Man of His Times : His Childhood, Youth, and Prime : His Adventures in Love and Marriage, at Court, and in Office, War, Revolution, and Plague : His Travels at Home and Abroad : His Habits, Tastes, Whims, and Opinions”, p.101, David R. Godine Publisher

Sometimes the best properties aren't necessarily the biggest properties.

Mark Cuban

Sometimes, Property

"Mark Cuban on 'Dancing,' Hoops, Vegas and More". The TODAY Magazine Interview, www.today.com. December 11, 2007.

Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property.

Mahatma Gandhi

Defence, Nonviolence, Property

Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Truth and Non-Violence”, Clarendon Press

The slaves were simply turned loose without any property. They were easily recognizable. They were black. They were suddenly free to go exploring.

Kurt Vonnegut

Black, Slave, Property

Kurt Vonnegut (1973). “Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!”, Dell

...human beings always have and always will seek havens where we are free to be productive and to keep the property we create.

John Pugsley

Humans, Property, Havens

I know I'm famous and irresitible - a combination whose properties closely resemble radioactivity - and I know that you in this room are helpless against me.

Jennifer Egan

Rooms, Combination, Property

Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.134, Anchor