Quotes About Invasion

Some people grab my hair and pull it out. People write on my jeans when I'm on stage. They write on my boots - their phone number, name or whatever.

I'm being invaded by fashion pundits.

When I was a kid, which was just after Edison invented moving pictures, there were films that involved aliens coming to Earth for bad purposes.

The post-Cold War order in Europe is finished, with Vladimir Putin its executioner. Russia's invasion of Georgia only marked its passing. Russia has emerged as a born-again 19th-century power determined to challenge the intellectual, moral and institutional foundations of the order.

Our civilization appears to've fallen so deeply into the habit of invasion that we cannot even obey a simple order of the Imperium without the old ways cropping up.

It's dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.

It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me - I spoke with him many times - that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.

It's reached this point where people are fascinated by every intricate detail of other people's lives. And some people are willing to give up their lives like that.

A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled themselves on Pinocchio's nose.

In L.A. you hear all these stories of people being filmed in their own homes through their windows. I think that is so scary.

Whoever would have guessed that in the land of cheap sausages and mashed potatoes there could be such a change which would actually bring the French from Paris every weekend to invade Britain en masse to eat great food and drink great wine.

It's sad that people will invade someone's privacy - and this is not only regarding someone's private photos - but this goes deep into people's financial privacy, their passwords, their emails, their text messages.

When Americans invade Iraq, Bush says, we will be greeted as liberators by the Iraqi people, proving that taking out Saddam Hussein was the right thing to do.

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.

There are some things you shouldn't overhear, some things that are too terrible to comprehend when other people are discussing them, even though they're happening to you.

When the Nazis invaded Poland, they knew they could subdue the country by superior force of arms. But Hitler's plan for Poland was to destroy the Poles as a people. To do that, the Nazis needed to destroy the two things that gave the Polish their identity: their shared Catholic faith and their sense of themselves as a nation.

This had the effect of bringing the Roman legions into the southern

not even this was enough to prevent a Persian expeditionary force from fighting its way through Anatolia towards the capital in 615.

Heraclius entered Persia from the north and the Sassanid Empire imploded.

539, great numbers of them, called 'Huns' by Procopius, crossed the Danube

and broke through the undefended Balkans to devastate all of mainland Greece north of the Peloponnese.

From Thessaly, the only way for an army to enter southern Greece

La poésie, pour moi, n'est pas évasion mais bien plutôt invasion. Invasion de l'univers extérieur par le monde du dedans. Pour agir, le poète doit être habité.

Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat.