Territory Quotes

For now it seems that by advancing into unknown territories, I entered into my life

The Senkaku islands are inherently Japanese territory. I want to show my strong determination to prevent this from changing.

Sexual harassment is becoming the modus operandi of the new world (on-line)... It is the means by which some males are conquering and claiming the new territory as their own.

A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability.

Exemplary people concern themselves with virtue, small people concern themselves with territory. The ruling class thinks of punishment, the lower classes hope for benevolence.

It never ceases to amaze me to see how much territory can be grasped if one merely masters and consistently uses all the obvious and easily learned principles.

Just before I play, I like to feel that no-one has ever played the piano before, that I'm in complete virgin territory, and that every note I play is the most beautiful sound I've ever heard.

Saving a life overrides territories.

How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.

I don't let guys do hickeys. That's like a dog marking his territory or something.

I think that fashion has become such a big business and with globalization we are on new territory at this point. We are not just designing for a country we are designing for a world now.

I believe that the black-and-white photograph, or rather the gray zones in the black-and-white photograph, stand for this territory that is located between life and death.

But when we sit together, close,’ said Bernard, ‘we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory.

An angry enemy encroached on our lives, our territory, our freedom and our independence.

The path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessness—domains soaked in anxiety.

We're in 'Jurassic Park' territory. If we go to the zoo in the future, we'll have zoos for extinct animals.

The map is not the territory (coined by Alfred Korzybski), and the name is not the thing named.

I have given the United States half the territory they possess, and for them to suffer me to remain in poverty, in consequence of it, will not redound much to their honor hereafter.

We may be delighted to see Israel putting the Arabs in their place, but we have repeatedly condemned their occupation of Arab territory.

There are routes not to be followed, armies not to be attacked, citadels not to be besieged, territory not to be fought over.

Life is a fight for territory and once you stop fighting for what you want, what you don't want will automatically take over.

I'm not a huge fan of covers in general, but collaborations always make them more fun - they're sort of neutral territory.

Love is a territory where orders can't be issued.

We have been in the territories since 1967. In 2002, we had sometimes three or four suicide attacks every day. We came to the conclusion that it can't continue like that.

Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.

Guys are like dogs: they never notice if you've changed your hair, but they can sense when there's another guy sniffing around their territory

The Niger Delta is an occupied territory. Citizens raise their hands in the creeks each time they see the military

In the minds of most men, the kingdom of opinion is divided into three territories,--the territory of yes, the territory of no, and a broad, unexplored middle ground of doubt.

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

You idiot!" She spat, flattening her ears. "What are you doing in my territory?" "Drowning?" Replied Graystripe.

Tallstar stiffened and his neck fur bristled. 'Windclan was driven from the forest once,' he hissed. 'Never again. Our territory is ours, and we'll fight for it. Is Thunderclan with us?

You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.

Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.

Still less let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.

Those people who occupy a territory determine the nature of the society in that region.

The map is not the territory, but you can't fold up the territory and put it in the glove compartment.

One has to be realistic. One’s concern for equity and justice in the world must not carry one into the alien territory of unreasoned belief. That’s very important.

Maybe we all want to burn off across the horizon, into space, perhaps, to take off into some unknown territory and meet ourselves out there.

The bible belt is oral territory and therefore despised by the literati.

The basic principle that we must follow in directing the armies of the Republic is this: that they must feed themselves on war at the expense of the enemy territory.

All of West Ham's away victories have come on opponents' territory this season

Producing a film is more unfamiliar territory. Although producing an album and overseeing artists is a task within itself. But film is unfamiliar territory so, here and now, that's more difficult.

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.

You don't have to be brought up in a grand house to have a sense of the past, and I truly believe that there are certain people to whom or through whom the territory - the place, the past - speaks.

I don't come from a famous family and don't have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I'm just doing my job and the attention that comes with it is part of the territory.

Enemy occupied territory is what the world is.

We are not going to finance elections when we need to fight to win back occupied territory.

We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.

A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port, together with some of the surrounding territory.

Without territory, it does not even have the resources to provide detention facilities for prisoners, even if it were interested in holding captured POWs.