Quotes About Territory

Italy is another Pack's territory. You're a guest; make sure that you are a polite one." God, I hope he told Heather that.

The Romans learned what European armies were to discover hundreds of years later: that the best-trained and best-equipped fighting force in the world might come to grief against partisans fighting on their own territory and for a cause for which they would willingly sacrifice themselves and their families.

Herein lies the key to understanding the rise and fall of all civilizations. In any given territory, the people making up the society in that territory create a culture which is unique to themselves.

A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory.

el Imperio español incluía Alemania, Austria, Suiza, los Países Bajos, y parte de Francia y de Checoslovaquia. Y

El hombre no roba, conquista», repetía a menudo... «Hace de cada provincia que toma un anexo de su imperio: le impone sus leyes, la puebla de temas y personajes, extiende su espectro sobre ella...».

Israel ranks her priorities in the following way: security, land, and water.

When you screw with somebody's sense of ownership of something, that's when they react.

Macedonia was, is and will forever be Greek.

Greenland is not for sale.

So it comes about that the war [World War I] seems, to us, to have been fought less over territory than the way it would be remembered, that the war's true subject is remembrance. Indeed the whole war — which was being remembered even as it was fought, whose fallen were being remembered before they fell — seems not so much to be tinted by retrospect as to have been fought retrospectively.

Males, for example, may compete directly to copulate with fertile females or compete indirectly for food, territory, nest sites, or social status that may increase their access to fertile females. In either situation, females are not exactly "choosing" from among male competitors, but acquiescing to sex with the male that holds the food, territory, or nest site that they need in order to reproduce.

In the early ages of the world, we know, it was believed that each territory was inhabited and ruled by its own divinities, so that a man could cross the bordering heights and be out of the reach of his native gods, whose presence was confined to the streams and the groves and the hills among which he had lived from his birth.

This resolution simply says Israel has the right to defend itself. This includes conducting operations both inside its borders and in the territory of nations that threaten it, which is in accordance with international law.

People want to protect the territory that they have, and they're very threatened by change. That's not true for all of scientists, but you know, fortunately, the scientific community moves forward in a conservative fashion.

I used to write in a local coffee shop, but there was another guy, another writer, who kept sitting in my favorite seat. I would show up, and he would be there, and I would get exiled to a couch or something, and it would throw me off my game.

Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.

China invaded Tibet. It invaded it. So all this nonsense about them being the same country is absurd. It's called Tibet. If it was part of China, it would be called China, wouldn't it?

You cannot follow another's footsteps to the truth," Silette wrote. "A hand can point the way. But the hand is not the teaching. The finger that points the way is not the way. The mystery is a payless land, and each detective must cut her own trail through a cruel territory.

You cannot follow another's footsteps to the truth," Silette wrote. "A hand can point the way. But the hand is not the teaching. The finger that points the way is not the way. The mystery is a pathless land, and each detective must cut her own trail through a cruel territory. "Believe nothing. Question everything. Follow only the clues.

The Niger Delta is an occupied territory. Citizens raise their hands in the creeks each time they see the military

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.

Slasher Hathaway marks his territory by spending money. He might as well have pissed on her. It means nothing.

When, in February 1885, at the Berlin Conference that not a single Congolese attended, the fourteen participating powers, headed by Great Britain, the United States, France, and Germany, graciously ceded to Leopold II—at whose side Henry Morton Stanley was a constant presence—the million square miles of the Congo and its twenty million inhabitants so that he "would open the territory to commerce, abolish slavery, and civilize and Christianize the pagans