The biggest companies in the world right now are made up of trillions of dollars of digital assets that really, in my opinion, should belong to us as individuals.
I object to the actual phrase ‘Follow me.’ You’ve gotta be kidding! Why would I want to follow anybody else? Nor do I want them to follow me. The machinations of my life, the banalities – they’re mine. They belong to me.
Growing up outside your own country makes you feel that you don’t belong when you return, so you feel free to make friends with whomever you like.
Some of my songs are about the feeling you belong somewhere else. But there’s also something grounding about coming from a small town.
My dad used to give me old electrical equipment that didn’t work anymore, and I’d put things together. I think that’s why I like to mix things that don’t belong.
Researchers consistently find that most older volunteers, when compared to older nonvolunteers, have fewer functional and physical impairments, overall better health, higher life satisfaction and less depression. In addition, they attend religious services more frequently and belong to more social organizations.
I think community and connection with people around us – and feeling that we belong – is really valuable.
Government is the only industry in which we don’t have a choice. If you live somewhere, you belong to that government. So we get bad service for high prices. This doesn’t have to be.
One of the blessings that comes from paying a full tithing is developing faith to live an even higher law. To live in the celestial kingdom, we must live the law of consecration. There we must be able to feel that all we are and all we have belong to God.
The real middle class India that has always been looking for a voice that is its very own. I write about it because I belong to it.
If I don’t belong because of what I think and because of my opinions, then so be it. What can one do about it? One can’t bend over backwards or pretend to be someone else just to belong. And in any case, it doesn’t work. Once you no longer belong, it’s over.
I don’t trust most journalists who belong to Anglo Saxon stock because we know what your inclinations are.
I belong to quite a lot of learned societies. We collect firearms and discuss them at dinners and clubs and things.
Frequent worshippers are also significantly more active citizens. They are more likely to belong to community organizations, especially those concerned with young people, health, arts and leisure, neighborhood and civic groups and professional associations.
If the sad truth be known, writers, being the misfits we are, probably ought not to belong to families in the first place. We simply are too self-interested, though we may excuse the flaw by calling it ‘focused.’
I don’t think it’s different to be a black girl in England than it is to be a black girl from America. We all collectively share in a pain of displacement and not feeling like we quite belong in places.
We belong to the camp of peace. We believe in peace. We believe that our one God wishes us to live in peace and wishes peace upon us, for these are His teachings to all the followers of the three great monotheistic religions, the Children of Abraham.
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
If it is indeed impossible – or at least very difficult – to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.
I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer.
I went to the mosque one day, and it came to me, like, ‘This is where I belong.’
Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved.
I know he’s retired, but I’m a big fan of Shaquille O’Neal, his game and his personality. I have a pair of his shoes in my office. You see the size of his shoe and think, ‘This is not real, this couldn’t belong to a human being.’ But he is human!
If we grow up in these communities where we have gangs, well, what do you think we’re going to belong to? That’s what happened to me and what’s still happening to hundreds of thousands of other individuals.
By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself.
I don’t feel as if I belong to an age group.
In my case, I belong to a group of aspiring and practicing biographers in Boston. We meet once a month for a coupla hours. It’s become my lifeline – forgive the pun.
Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they’re more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven’t the least idea of where poetry is going.
In stating the principles which regulate exchangeable value and price, we should carefully distinguish between those variations which belong to the commodity itself, and those which are occasioned by a variation in the medium in which value is estimated, or price expressed.
In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, Russian or Greek Catholic Churches. In those churches, the priests can be married, but the bishops have to be celibate. They are very good priests.
‘Jurassic Park’ doesn’t belong to America; it belongs to the whole world.
I know I belong at 170. There is not a shadow of a doubt. This is my division and there’s a clearcut path to the title.
When you’re 27 million strong, no one can tell you that you don’t belong or expect you to just move along.
I am very happy that TV is going back to where we belong and what we believe in, the traditions.
My idea of a good fantasy is something that’s absolutely grounded in reality. And there’s a little element that doesn’t belong there – and that’s the fantasy element – that you have to react to and deal with in a completely real way.
Money you know you need or want to spend in the next few years is savings. Money you keep handy for an emergency belongs in savings. Money you hope to use soon for a down payment on a house belongs in savings. And all savings belong in a low-risk bank savings account or money market account.
It doesn’t need to be that violent and crazy and wild. Having experienced it, you don’t belong to yourself anymore. You belong to the passion… It’s something you have to go through to learn what passion is about.
Just because I belong to the film industry, people should not be judgmental.
I don’t belong to anyone else but myself. I have to make my own decisions. Happiness is defined by me.
In my eight years as governor, I did everything I could to resist federal control of issues that belong to the states.
When people do things they weren’t even sure they were capable of, I think it comes back to connection. Connection with teammates. Connection with organization. Feeling like they belong in the environment. I think it’s a human need – the need to feel connected.
I believe that public space should be intentional: it should be obvious that you belong.
I don’t ever view myself as a straight country act, and I don’t think the straight country acts view me as a straight country act, either – but I certainly belong to them.
Tears belong within the family.
I belong to a strong Congress family. Right from my grandfather, my family has been supporting the Congress.
I’m a drifter and an outsider. There’s not one single environment I can totally belong to.
Syria should not belong to one family, to one coterie, or to one party. It belongs to all the people of Syria equally, in all their religious and ethnic diversity.
I belong to a non-filmy background, that is where my friends are from too.
Yeah, see, my view of Jordan is that he doesn’t belong to Washington.
Christmas lights may be the loneliest thing for me, especially if you mix them up with reindeers and sleighs. I feel alone. I feel isolated. I feel I do not belong.
We belong to talking, not what talking is about… Stop talking – and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.
I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road… all tongues and all prayers belong to me. But I belong to none of them.
If the internet has taught me anything it is that people are either heroes or they belong in the bin.
The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better.
I’d been told that when you first put your feet on African ground, you’ll be hit by a feeling of overwhelming understanding, like you’ve returned home and suddenly belong. Quite frankly, I didn’t feel that.
When at the CIA, I was fond of saying that many jihadis join the movement for the same reasons that young Americans join the Crips and the Bloods: youthful alienation, the need to belong to something greater than self, the search for meaningful identity. But it also matters what gang you join.
