Territory Quotes - Page 11

• Soviet rocket troops possess enough equipment to be able, if need be, to sweep any aggressor from the face of the earth at whatever point of the globe he may be and whatever military power, territory, or economy he may possess.

  Sergey Biryuzov

  Military, Faces, Troops

  "Military Procurement Authorization", United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services, 1963.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The variation between countries is partly due to cultural and institutional differences, but undoubtedly the economic landscape within each territory is crucial.

  Lorna Byrne

  Country, Differences, Variation

  6 Copy quote

• the territory of grief ... is both cruel and commonplace.

  Gail Caldwell

  Grief, Commonplace

  6 Copy quote

• One of the blessings that comes with parental territory is that children tug you into experiences you're pretty sure you'd never otherwise contemplate.

  Nancy Mairs

  Children, Blessing, Parental

  Nancy Mairs (2001). “Waist-High In The World: A Life Among the Nondisabled”, p.196, Beacon Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm not sure I'd classify any topics as off-limits, but I don't look for new territories to offend. There's my joke about when my roommate beat cancer. People talk about cancer survivors like they're warriors, but from where I was sitting, she was just watching television and eating soup. Like, did she go to war? No. She kind of just sat around.

  Amy Schumer

  War, Cancer, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• But it is not at all unthinkable for anyone to tell a writer how to write. It comes with the territory.

  Ernest Lehman

  Writing, Unthinkable

  5 Copy quote

• Writing is a consciousness formally at work in the territory of the imaginary.

  Nicole Brossard

  Writing, Consciousness, Imaginary

  6 Copy quote

• Wars are not fought for territory, but for words. Man's deadliest weapon is language. He is as susceptible to being hypnotized by slogans as he is to infectious diseases. And where there is an epidemic, the group-mind takes over.

  Arthur Koestler

  War, Men, Epidemics

  7 Copy quote

• Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought and activity of their happier brethren.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Intellectual, Mind, March

  Thomas Carlyle (1845). “The Life of Friedrich Schiller: Comprehending an Examination of His Works”, p.56, London : Chapman and Hall

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• In football the object is to march into enemy territory and cross his goal. In baseball the object is to go home.

  George Carlin

  Baseball, Football, Home

  4 Copy quote

• Who can think that this eviction of Germans was undertaken only as a temporary experiment? Those who adopted the decision on the eviction of the Germans from these territories, and who understood that Poles from other Polish districts would at once move into these territories, cannot suggest after a while to carry out reverse measures. The very idea of involving millions of people in such experiments is unbelievable, quite apart from the cruelty of it, both towards the Poles and the Germans themselves.

  Vyacheslav Molotov

  Moving, Thinking, Ideas

  "The German-Polish Frontier" by Walter M. Drzewieniecki, (p. 71), 1959.

  53 Copy quote

  Show source

• It was the White Man who spanned the continents of the world with railroads and super highways and electrical power lines. It was the White Man who created the miraculous world of electronics, ushering in the telephone, the radio and television. It was the White Race, who in a combined burst of energy and genius sent rockets to the moon and planted the feet of the White Man on extra-terrestrial territory in the last decade.

  Ben Klassen

  Moon, Men, Race

  "Nature's Eternal Religion" by Ben Klassen, 1973.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• We must appraise civilization in relation to its territory and in relation to its duration. The character of the medium of communication tends to create a bias in civilization favourable to an over-emphasis on the time concept or on the space concept and only at rare intervals are the biases offset by the influence of another medium and stability achieved.

  Harold Innis

  Communication, Character, Civilization

  Harold Innis (1999). “The Bias of Communication”, p.99, University of Toronto Press

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• A scholar like myself who is not a Sinologist and yet ventures the proposition that Chinese languages should be rewritten in the Greek alphabet (or "Romanized", to use the current term) is treading on uncharted territory (for him) and does so at his peril.

  Eric A. Havelock

  Greek, Chinese, Use

  "Chinese Characters and the Greek Alphabet". Sino-Platonic Papers, Issue no. 5, sino-platonic.org. December 1987.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• If the Almighty in his mercy allows us to settle peace among the christian leaders, we shall press on not only to destroy completely the bad seeds, but also to expand the territories of Christ, and, supported by these achievements, we shall go forward, with God favouring his own purposes, to the most holy expedition against the infidels, the desire for which is deeply fixed in our heart.

  Pope Leo X

  Christian, Heart, Achievement

  27 Copy quote

• The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs.' The reason is that beliefs guide behavior, which has evolutionary importance among human beings. But at a time when our behavior may well lead us to extinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

  Michael Crichton

  Religious, Fighting, Animal

  Michael Crichton (1996). “The lost world”

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• In a sense, all fiction is experimental. Every new book is an adventure into unknown territory. As Hemingway told us, you (the writer) have to go out beyond where you have gone before.

  Richard Laymon

  Book, Adventure, Gone

  6 Copy quote

• In order to provide the German housewife, above all mothers of many children...with tangible relief from her burdens, the Fuhrer has commissioned me to bring into the Reich from the eastern territories some four to five hundred thousand select, healthy, and strong girls.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Girl, Mother, Strong

  "Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs" by Albert Speer, (p. 221), 1970.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have no doubt that as the Iraqi security forces get better, and they are getting better and they are holding territory and they are doing these things with minimal help, that we are going to be able to bring down the levels of our forces. And I have no doubt that that's going to happen in a reasonable time frame.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Doubt, Get Better, Levels

  Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing On U.S Foreign Policy in Iraq, October 19, 2005.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• This is a landmark opportunity for all that live and work in the Yukon. The Territory is now one step closer to realizing the potential that geothermal heat and power has for the economy, the environment, First Peoples, tax-payers and businesses.

  Alison Thompson

  Opportunity, Firsts, Yukon

  6 Copy quote

• Writing about race and crime was not new territory for me. But it can be treacherous. So here are my rules: No stereotypes. No generalizations. No explanations. No apologies. Just the facts, ma'am.

  Colin Flaherty

  Writing, Apology, Race

  5 Copy quote

• My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory--an office of such majesty that it concentrated in itself the duties and dignities of Treasurer, Comptroller, Secretary of State, and Acting Governor in the Governor's absence. A salary of eighteen hundred dollars a year and the title of "Mr. Secretary," gave to the great position an air of wild and imposing grandeur. I was young and ignorant, and I envied my brother.

  Mark Twain

  Brother, Book, Years

  Mark Twain (2008). “10 Books in 1”, p.541, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I hope we don't have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion. The parity of women's health. It's very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.

  Erica Jong

  Depressing, Fighting, Winning

  "Erica Jong on Feminism for the Future". Omega Institute Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2014.

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.

  Ida B. Wells

  Lynching, Law, Civilization

  15 Copy quote

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

  Rob Hawthorne

  Football, Victory, Ham

  9 Copy quote