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.
If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not squatter's rights of the heart.
For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to?
I never felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing up there. That's why I was out the door as soon as I turned 18.
There is absolutely no doubt that the extraordinary Donna Summer belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The problem with fame is you no longer belong to you. You lose your persona and become the object of other people's obsession. I feel watched 90% of the time, but that is something I drew with the cards that I drew.
The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.
Too often in Washington special interests urge us to fight one another just because we belong to different parties. It is time for this to stop and for Washington to focus on what needs to be done.
All information belongs to everybody all the time. It should be available. It should be accessible to the child, to the woman, to the man, to the old person, to the semiliterate, to the presidents of universities, to everyone. It should be open.
Sebastian: Ariel, please! Will you get your head out of the clouds and back in the water where it belongs?
Freder: It was their hands that built this city of ours, Father. But where do the hands belong in your scheme? Joh Frederson: In their proper place, the depths.
Alicia: Here's something that belongs to you. I should have given it to you sooner. Devlin: What is it? Alicia: A scarf you lent me once in Miami.
Rupert Cadell: By what right do you dare to say that there's a superior few to which you belong?
Cpl. Frederic Schiess, NNC: I belong to Natal Mounted Police. Pvt. William Jones: Is that true then? He's a peeler, 716. Come to arrest the Zulus.
As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.
My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves.
If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and sheer ignorance as religion is, you'd resign in protest.
Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike.
We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.
When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are.
The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.
