Territory Quotes

We played every bar, party, pub, hotel lounge, church hall, mining town - places that made Mad Max territory look like a Japanese garden.

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

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

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.

I believe in any country, matters that relate to its territory would, of course, provoke strong sentiments amongst the people of that country.

This accession of territory affirms forever the power of the United States, and I have given England a maritime rival who sooner or later will humble her pride.

Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke violence in response, and often does.

Today, the army only occupies the territory once the war is over.

In this way, history now inscribes itself in real time, in the 'live', in the realm of interactivity. Consequently, history no longer resides in the extension of territory.

I am always concerned with ideas of territory and movement. Indeed, my first book after Bunker Archeology was entitled L'insecurite du territoire (1976).

For me, then, territory and movement are linked. For instance, territory is controlled by the movements of horsemen, of tanks, of planes, and so on.

Possession of territory is not primarily about laws and contracts, but first and foremost a matter of movement and circulation.

Thus my research on dromology, on the logic and impact of speed, necessarily implies the study of the organisation of territory.

The problem with architecture is it goes with the territory, because it's an applied art and because you're messing about with people and their environment.

God, from whose territory I had withdrawn my ambassadors at the age of fourteen. It had become obvious that he was never going to do a thing I said.

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

There is a lot of territory out there still to explore TV-wise, show-wise, movie-wise, everything.

I roam around a lot in my territory, but what I learn at one end inflects and opens up my understanding at the other.

America is perhaps best viewed as an 'authoritarian democracy' within its own territory and as 'a global state' of a new kind when considered internationally.

We don't actually plan to launch new businesses over the next few years, but we are planning to take the ones we have into new territories.

I think the executives at the studios today realize that it's easier and safer to go the - to some known territory which is a remake of a successful film. It's less chancy than taking a fresh idea.

Many now born, by the time they are voters will compose part of a nation with a genius nowhere equaled, and with a vast territory upon which those energies and that genius can operate.

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

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.

Puerto Rico is not a full part of the United States. We're a territory or a colonial territory.

America is a construction of mind, not of race or inherited class or ancestral territory.

The heart never forgets, never gives up, the territory marked off for those who came before.

So history is fertile territory for me and I think I could feel happy with any period of history, provided I had the right sources and the necessary time for the initial research.

The pioneers take the arrows. And when you're at the top everybody is gunning for what you have and what you want, and that's just part of the territory.

The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me.

Because of its huge territory, Russia must devote a great deal of attention to security.

There's time limits on how long people's attention spans will work. There's six weeks in each territory that you're really famous, then you, thank god, disappear again.

The church belongs to its hierarchy, which is men in power. Those outside the hierarchy, and especially women, are at best only renters and at worst squatters in religious territory.

I think the best way is to forget about racing people and just find territory that's fresh.

No one in the modern world controls the wealth or territory that Cleopatra did.

When crossing someone's borders you have to be prepared to engage in a war that is far more brutal than if it were to take place on neutral territory.

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

As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.

There are some people who hate my guts. But that goes with the territory.

It's funny, the old media idea is very segmented, like "this is my territory and this is yours." But media is changing. You're at a point now where people can start to move into different forms.

I would love to do special products for specific countries. As we go ahead and learn the territories, we're going to do exclusives for each area.

As a territory, American Samoa has no representation in the U.S. Senate, and we Samoans lost a respected and powerful ally with the passing of Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye.

The writer is important only by dint of the territory he colonizes.

For me, it [Crimea] is not borders and state territories that matter, but people's fortunes.

Some of my ideas were shot down by Lucasfilm because they stepped on territory that has been reserved for the movies. I didn't have a problem with that.

I get very nervous in un-trodden territory but it's important to keep doing it just to prove to myself that I can do it.

For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.

The only reason for your intimidation by the devil, and your being afraid of him, or what he can do is because you are living in ignorance (darkness) which is his territory.

The only reason for your intimidation by the devil, and you're being afraid of him, or what he can do is because you are living in ignorance (darkness) which is his territory.

Whatever your territory is does not matter, what matters is the amount of time you are ready to invest into it to become the king of that territory.