Henry Adams Quotes

I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself.

I love to personalize things. I love to make things my own. I like to name everything - from cars to iPhones to the socks I just lost.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

What belongs to someone, belongs to someone.

If something is mine, then I want to keep it.

Having disciples is in the end like having children, only not with love but with self-love preeminent.

Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.

Where pride begins, love ceases.

You look good wearing my future.

I want to feel that I own things.

Every animal loves itself.

Poor slob without a name. It's a little inconvenient, his not having a name. But I haven't the right to give him one: he'll have to wait until he belongs to somebody. We just sort of took up by the river one day, we don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I. I don't want to own anything until I know I've found the place where me and things belong together.

The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.

That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love.

My wife." "By what name is she called, Kincaid?" "Mine.

I'm like a little kid that has a basketball and don't want nobody else to play with it. "It's mine, it's mine, and it's mine!" When it comes to sneakers.

Ser Barristan loves his honor, Grand Maester Pycelle loves his office, and Littlefinger loves Littlefinger.

I'm an ardent fan. All I really had to do was put myself in my own shoes.

You like the way I dress The way I wear my hair Show me off to all your friends Baby, I don't care Just as long as you tell them who I am Tell them I'm the one that made you give a damn

She was mine before she was yours.

I would not like it thought that I do not buy my own paperclips, sir. I enjoy owning my own paperclips. It means they are mine.

How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.

Oh Jesus God we did belong to each other. He was mine.

Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because He loves.

I know being with me is not easy. But I want you to understand no one has me, or has ever had me, except you.