Territory Quotes - Page 3

• Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.

  Thomas Huxley

  Doe, Size, Grandeur

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.110, Library of Alexandria

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• Enemy occupied territory is what the world is.

  C. S. Lewis

  Enemy, World

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• Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution.

  Jacques Derrida

  Institutions, Certain, Reader

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• If the day comes when the two-state solution collapses, and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights (also for the Palestinians in the territories), then, as soon as that happens, the State of Israel is finished.

  Ehud Olmert

  Struggle, Rights, Israel

  "State of Israel could disappear, warns Olmert" by Mark Tran, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2007.

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• We’d spent years as adversaries, two predators sharing territory and a certain, unwelcome attraction. Somehow, during all those years I spent outwardly acquiescing to his demands while making sure I held my own, I’d won his respect. I’d had werewolves love me and hate me, but I’d never had one respect me before. Not even Samuel. Adam respected me enough to act on my suspicions. It meant a lot.

  Patricia Briggs

  Hate, Years, Two

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• But the truth of the matter is, we're an open society, we want to remain an open society, and there will continue to be vulnerability. That's why we have to meet the threats when they are not yet taking place on our territory and on our soil.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Want, Matter, Soil

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• 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. The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Hands, Liberty, Taxation

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.80, Cambridge University Press

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• I have never been to a court s gracious as the one Neha keeps. Dmitri played a knife through his fingers, one of the three he'd brought back from Neha's territory. "She truly believes in giving honor to a visitor." He threw to knife at Jason. "He threw it back as Venom added, "Thought she might have that guest neatly executed as the court sleeps.

  Nalini Singh

  Believe, Sleep, Knives

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• Sometimes it seems to me that things hold together only thanks to the borders, that the true identify of these lands and peoples is the shape of their territories in an atlas. It's a stupid thought, but I can't shake it.

  Andrzej Stasiuk

  Stupid, Land, Together

  Andrzej Stasiuk (2011). “On the Road to Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe”, p.173, HMH

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• The triumph of the written word is often attained when the writer achieves union and trust with the reader, who then becomes ready to be drawn into unfamiliar territory, walking in borrowed literary shoes so to speak, toward a deeper understanding of self or society, or of foreign peoples, cultures, and situations.

  Chinua Achebe

  Self, Shoes, Understanding

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from May 03, 2015

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• That'd be walking into dangerous territory," he says, getting up from the sofa. "Luke is not a morning person.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Morning, Sofas, Dangerous

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• C'est courageux d'aller dans l'inconnu': It is courageous to go into territory unknown.

  Gayle Forman

  Courageous

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Jul 08, 2013

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• He spreads his fingers over my heart, like he’s holding it, like it belongs to him, the hard-fought-for territory he’s won fair and square.

  Rick Yancey

  Heart, Squares, Fingers

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.375, Penguin

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• Sydney might not be an expert in personal relationships but puzzles were familiar territory.

  Richelle Mead

  Might, Experts, Familiar

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.1326, Penguin

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• They said we were soft, that we would not fight, that we could not win. We are not a warlike nation. We do not go to war for gain or for territory; we go to war for principles, and we produce young men like these. I think I told every one of them that I would rather have that medal, the Congressional Medal of Honor, than to be President of the United States.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Fighting, Winning

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1961). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• More worryingly, my baby fangs were out, which usually happened only when I was perilously close to tipping over into Mr. Hyde territory. I quickly drew them back in. It didn’t help much. I still looked like Dracula’s daughter. Which was completely unfair, since he’d only been an uncle.

  Karen Chance

  Daughter, Baby, Uncles

  Karen Chance (2012). “Fury's Kiss: A Midnight's Daughter Novel”, p.37, Penguin

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• For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeteers, musicians and strange animals from conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conquerors rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children robed in white stood with him in the chariot or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden crown and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting.

  George S. Patton

  Horse, Children, War

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• I think it's absolutely possible to write a song and go somewhere where no one's been before, uncharted territory. In terms of content, I see limitations where there should be none. I know there are things I wouldn't write about, but that shouldn't be the case. You should be able to make a song out of anything, out of any situation.

  Richard Thompson

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it - The Territory is worth. Empires which branch out widely are often more flourishing for a little timely pruning.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Time, Cost, Pruning

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• If it respected religion, Israel would have transferred these synagogues back to its territory.

  Mohammed Dahlan

  Israel, Synagogue, Ifs

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• They kissed for the sort of endless moment that only exists between lovers whose lips are still new territory to one another.

  Scott Lynch

  Lips, Lovers, Moments

  Scott Lynch (2015). “The Gentleman Bastard Series 3-Book Bundle: The Lies of Locke Lamora, Red Seas Under Red Skies, The Republic of Thieves”, p.1235, Del Rey

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• Animals do not do what they have done. Animals kill to eat, to defend themselves or their own, and to protect their territory. Not for the joy of it. Not for the lust of it...Only humans do that, wizard.

  Jim Butcher

  Animal, Joy, Lust

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• A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Love, Country, Son

  Giuseppe Mazzini (2005). “The Duties of Man and Other Essays”, p.58, Cosimo, Inc.

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