Ownership Dispute Quotes

Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.

Certainly, my many years working in the comics industry, creating products that I do not own, has made me rather fierce on the subject of giving up rights.

No witch has ever claimed to own the Elder Wand. Make of that what you will.

Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.

An infinite number of men will sell publicly and unhindered things of the very highest price, without leave from the Master of it; while it never was theirs nor in their power; and human justice will not prevent it.

She was mine before she was yours.

In 1995, I sold the rights to Harry Bosch to Paramount. They had several screenplays written, but a movie never happened. Harry Bosch went on the shelf, and I had to wait 15 years to get him back.

Over the years, there have been challenges about who can use our name. It's quite simple: A majority of people left in the band at a certain time own the name. It's not like I'm the guy who has the name under my own contract.

The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.

At the time I attempted to purchase the rights back for the 3 Homestead records, but the owner demanded an outrageous sum in the neighborhood of $10,000, about 10 times more money than I could get my hands on at the time.

Finders were keepers unless title was proven.

History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.

We will have no mercy for white people regarding the land, they cannot own our soil.

We have a lot of guests who are trying to take over the house and the owner of the house doesn't like it.

hey Lynch I didn't leave that car for it to sit while you just blow III

We need to have a talk on the subject of what's yours and what's mine.

But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.

Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog?

With 'PKP,' I did not own the film.

This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.

Not sure how I can be 'terminated' from a band that I founded, fronted and co-wrote many of their biggest hits. But that's something for the lawyers to figure out.

If we ever owned the land we own it still, for we never sold it.

An ancient prophecy ... pronounced, That the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it!