Territory Quotes - Page 19

• Earlier maps had underestimated the distances to other continents and exaggerated the outlines of individual nations. Now global dimensions could be set, with authority, by the celestial spheres. Indeed, King Louis XIV of France, confronted with a revised map of his domain based on accurate longitude measurements, reportedly complained that he was losing more territory to his astronomers than to his enemies.

  Dava Sobel

  Kings, Distance, Enemy

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• There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of three-eighths of our territory must pass to market, and from its fertility it will ere long yield more than half of our whole produce and contain more than half our inhabitants.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Yield, New Orleans, History

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.492

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• The novel is a territory where one does not make assertions; it is a territory of play and of hypotheses.

  Milan Kundera

  Writing, Play, Doe

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• The V sign is the symbol of the unconquerable will of the occupied territories, and a portent of the fate awaiting the Nazi tyranny.

  Winston Churchill

  Fate, Victory, Unconquerable Will

  Message to people of Europe launching V for Victory propaganda campaign, 20 July 1941

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• Richard Lee calculated that a Bushman child will be carried a distance of 4,900 miles before he begins to walk on his own. Since, during this rhythmic phase, he will be forever naming the contents of his territory, it is impossible he will not become a poet.

  Bruce Chatwin

  Children, Distance, Forever

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• In 1988, King Hussein of Jordan said that it doesn't take any connection any more to those territories, and he would like to split from those territories. So according to the international law, it doesn't belong to anyone.

  Silvan Shalom

  Kings, Law, Splits

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

  Confucius

  Thinking, Punishment, Class

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• To get to Earth from the edge of the solar system, depending on the time of year and the position of the planets, you need to pass through at least Poland, Prussia, and Turkey, and you'd probably get stamps in your passport from a few of the other great powers. Then as you get closer to the world, you arrive at a point, in the continually shifting carriage space over the countries, where this complexity has to give way or fail. And so you arrive in the blissful lubrication of neutral orbital territory.

  Paul Cornell

  Country, Years, Turkeys

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• If we just stay at the crest of the mycelial wave, it will take us into heretofore unknown territories that will be just magnificent in their implications.

  Paul Stamets

  Wave, Magnificent, Implications

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• Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams.

  Freeman Dyson

  Dream, Fiction, Landscape

  Freeman Dyson (1999). “Imagined World”, p.9, Universities Press

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• You can't win. Logic has no power over her when her territory has been invaded by heathens.

  Mira Grant

  Winning, Logic, Can't Win

  Mira Grant (2010). “Feed: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.69, Hachette UK

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• The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.

  John Boyd Orr

  Appreciate, Arms, Empires

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• Love’s easy. It kind of comes with the territory. But liking is another story.

  Melina Marchetta

  Liking Someone, Stories, Kind

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• This seems headed into girl-fight territory," Tod said. "Should I make popcorn?

  Rachel Vincent

  Girl, Fighting, Popcorn

  Rachel Vincent (2013). “Soul Screamers Volume Three: If I Die\Never to Sleep\Before I Wake”, p.509, Harlequin

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• Her dark-eyed glare narrowed on me. "You could have least given him a shirt, Kaylee." "Like you're an expert on when it's appropriate to wear a shirt." Sabine bristled. "This seems headed into girl-fight territory," Tod said. "Should I make popcorn?

  Rachel Vincent

  Girl, Dark, Fighting

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• A house is a compressed territory where our basic needs can be fulfilled close by and safely.

  Yann Martel

  House, Needs, Fulfilled

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.36, Canongate Books

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• We consider these settlements to be contrary to the Geneva Convention, that occupied territory should not be changed by establishment of permanent settlements by the occupying power.

  Jimmy Carter

  Israel, Establishment, Should

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1980). “Jimmy Carter”

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• The central premise behind Oslo was that if Arafat were given enough legitimacy, territory, weapons and money, he would use his power to fight terror and make peace with Israel.

  Natan Sharansky

  Peace, Fighting, Israel

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

  John Yoo

  Hands, Doe, Resources

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• That macho protective bullshit is just some asshat man pissing on his territory so the other dogs will stay away.

  Tammara Webber

  Dog, Men, Bullshit

  Tammara Webber (2014). “Between the Lines: The Complete Series”, p.519, Tammara Webber

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• Radley rolled his eyes. He actually rolled his eyes at my father. Alpha of the south-central territory and head of the Territorial Council. Sure, I did that all the time but I'd also peed on his lap when I was two. No one else got away with such disrespect toward an Alpha, which meant Radley either didn't know who my father was, or didn't care

  Rachel Vincent

  Father, Eye, Two

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “Pride”, p.139, MIRA

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• I don’t like the idea of dragging you into something that could get messy fast. If you need one more reason, I love you. This is uncharted territory for me, but I need to know that at the end of the night, I have you to come home to.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Love You, Home, Night

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.830, Simon and Schuster

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• I have always disliked the morning, it is too responsible a time, with the daylight demanding that it be 'faced' and (usually when I wake for I wake late) with the sun already up and in charge of the world, with little hope of anyone usurping or challenging its authority. A shot of light in the face of a poor waking human being and another slave limps wounded into the light-occupied territory.

  Janet Frame

  Morning, Light, Challenges

  Janet Frame (1972). “Daughter Buffalo”

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• I do not say that there is no glory to be gained [in war]; but it is not personal glory. In itself, no cause was ever more glorious than that of men who struggle, not to conquer territory, not to gather spoil, not to gratify ambition, but for freedom, for religion, for hearth and home, and to revenge the countless atrocities inflicted upon them by their oppressors.

  G.A. Henty

  Revenge, War, Struggle

  G. A. Henty (2018). “By Pike and Dyke”, p.63, Ozymandias Press

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• If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to other selves, other domains, other dreams, other territories.

  Susan Sontag

  Dream, Self, Literature

  Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.147, Macmillan

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