Top 484 Property Quotes

If it is a rental property, we’ll typically keep it fairly neutral. If it’s a vacation property, we have a lot more fun and do things a little more edgy and exciting. When we’re flipping, we obviously want to make smart decisions and do things that produce great returns.
Scott McGillivray
No good case exists for the inequality of real and intellectual property, because no good case can exist for treating with special disfavor the work of the spirit and the mind.
Mark Helprin
I think that ‘Halo’ is a hard property because they don’t need to make a film. They make far more money out of the games so why risk?
Rupert Sanders
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.
Henry David Thoreau
The British judiciary needs to support intellectual property.
James Dyson
I loved when the superhero genre crosses with horror. Morbius. Those are the guys I gravitated towards. Blade. So for me, to be interested in doing a superhero movie, it would need to be on the dark side or a Jack Kirby property. Kamandi, Demon, Mr. Miracle – I love any Kirby.
Guillermo del Toro
As we approached our work, my colleagues and I looked to the U.S. Constitution for guidance. It states, ‘No person shall … be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.’ No person, no exceptions.
Asa Hutchinson
Even in a bad market, location, location, location is a way to still buy and sell property.
Vanilla Ice
It was at the beginning of all this tabloid frenzy. Our garbage was being gone through, and we were involved in all these chases getting home, and people camping out on our property to get pictures.
Lauren Holly
There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry.
Ivo Andric
If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it’s got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them.
Dan Glickman
The earth is the Lord’s. Psalm 24 basically says the earth is God’s property. We have been given the privilege and responsibility of living on earth to see it isn’t ruined.
Allen Johnson
The Haavara agreement allowed the escape of well-to-do German Jews in exchange for the liquidation of their property and the purchase and export of German goods to break the boycott of Germany’s Nazi-controlled economy.
Terry Glavin
If you come on my property, I’ve got you from the second that you enter on. There’s little lasers… my TVs come on in my room and fall just right on you. So, there’s no way to sneak up on me. And I’ve got a loud dog.
Gary Allan
Streptomycin belongs to a group of compounds, known as antibiotics, which are produced by microorganisms and which possess the property of inhibiting the growth and even of destroying other microorganisms.
Selman Waksman
While cyber espionage is having a tremendous negative affect on the global economy from the theft-caused drain of intellectual property and the resulting adverse incentives for continued investments in innovative growth, the threat from destructive and disruptive attacks is amplifying the risks even further.
Dmitri Alperovitch
Nothing can be clearer than that what the Constitution intended to guard against was the exercise by the general government of the power of directly taxing persons and property within any State through a majority made up from the other States.
Melville Fuller
As long as our government is administered for the good

As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.
Andrew Jackson
Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property.
Barbara Castle
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
John Locke
Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.
Zebulon Pike
Deities can actually own property in India, though the law treats them as minors, and they must be represented by an official guardian.
Jake Halpern
Few rich men own their property; their property owns them.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.
Thomas Sowell
In the old days, talent owned their costumes, their intellectual property, their gimmicks. They were not employees and could wrestle anywhere they wanted to, and that just is not case in today’s WWE.
Jim Cornette
The London property market has excellent investment opportunities.
Wang Jianlin
Being about to land on the soil of North Carolina, the general commanding desires his soldiers to remember that they are here to support the Constitution and the laws, to put down rebellion, and to protect the persons and property of the loyal and peaceable citizens of the State.
Ambrose Burnside
But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void, because it is repugnant to the law of nature and of nations.
William H. Seward
The real protection of life and property, always and everywhere.
Rose Wilder Lane
You should always use your Nobel prize money to buy property.
John Kendrew
I think that our language, culture, age, fortune, property, and our fame is all a facade. In the end, we’re all the same.
Jenova Chen
Because animals are property, we consider as ‘humane treatment’ that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.
Gary L. Francione
The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology.
Helena Blavatsky
The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity.
Rachel Cusk
The enduring lesson is war is a disaster. Whoever wins, tremendous loss of life, property – a set back for civilisation.
Lee Kuan Yew
It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.
William Graham Sumner
I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom.
James Q. Wilson
In many countries, laws still work to women’s disadvantage – for example, by requiring married women to obtain their husbands’ permission to register a business, own property, or work.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Frederick Douglass
When you close a tab or when you finish an article on the web, it’s gone unless you go back into your history or search for it or explicitly try to find it. Apps on your phone have this special property: they hang around. In some ways, they’re more like a book on a bookshelf than they are like web pages.
Robin Sloan
Our private property must be sacrificed.
Dolley Madison
Over the years, EpiPen’s manufacturer, Mylan, made meaningful modifications to its auto-injector pen. The company maintains some important intellectual property around these revisions. Mylan rightly argues that these features differentiate its device.
Scott Gottlieb
While I believe our Constitution allows for State and local governments to execute the power of eminent domain for those purposes that specifically serve the public good, condemning property solely to implement economic development plans is not serving the public good.
Solomon Ortiz
My investigations have indicated that Taib and his family have a property empire in Canada, the US and the UK. Funds have been generated by Taib selling off rainforests with some of the money going through the British Virgin Islands.
Clare Rewcastle Brown
Abandoned homes become magnets for vandalism and crime. They drag down the property values of neighboring homes.
Eric Schneiderman
The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property.
John Moody
I already have a second career, running a property investment business with a friend.
Kevin Clifton
Some people really trip on success or popularity. My friends would talk to me about that, about tripping on all this stuff, but you know what I tripped on? I started buying property.
Roy Ayers
Americans have been selling this view around the world:

Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property.
Lawrence Lessig
Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.
Frederic Bastiat
Next time you open the paper, and you see an intellectual property decision, a telecoms decision, it’s not about something small and technical. It is about the future of the freedom to be as social beings with each other, and the way information, knowledge and culture will be produced.
Yochai Benkler
Just as man can’t exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one’s rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.
Ayn Rand
I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It’s a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others.
John Perry Barlow
We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights. Before governments were organized, no one denies that each individual possessed the right to protect his own life, liberty and property.
Susan B. Anthony