Belongs Quotes

The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and which, so far as the Roman and Hellenic worlds were concerned, were largely diffused over them at epochs not widely distant from one another.

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

The future belongs to crowds.

Believing that the power to destroy belongs to the Creator alone I affirm... that any theory which, when carried out, demands the annihilation of force, is necessarily erroneous.

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.

In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

I feel most at home in the United States, not because it is intrinsically a more interesting country, but because no one really belongs there any more than I do. We are all there together in its wholly excellent vacuum.

They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor, and which is necessary for the support and happiness of our own race.

So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest.

Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.

I am not generous about telling people who I am and what I like to do because it's my life and it only belongs to me and my friends and family.

I wrote that song for my wife, and it's what some guy who's sitting under a tree would be singing to the woman of his life, telling her how wonderful she is. To me, that's more lasting than something that sounds like it belongs on a movie soundtrack.

The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register.

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

I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer.

However, before we make the mistake of patting ourselves on the back, let's remember: government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely. The real credit for our economic renewal belongs to the people of Alabama .

The victor belongs to the spoils.

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless.

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

People are hurting out there, perhaps they are ready to start a conversation about whether an AR-15 belongs in the hands of a citizen, whether a citizen should be able 6,000 rounds on the internet.

The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game.

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.