Quotes About Territory

That space between the white lines, that's my office. That's where I conduct my business.

The Kashmir problem is a very old one and has been a major challenge for all governments.

I reckon some parsons have a right to tell you to be good. The bishop of this hyeh territory has a right. But I'll tell yu' this: a middlin' doctor is a pore thing, and a middlin' lawyer is a pore thing; but keep me from a middlin' man of God.

Deep down in his heart the genuine Englishman has a rugged distaste for seeing his country invaded by a foreign army. People were asking themselves by what right these aliens had overrun British soil. An ever-growing feeling of annoyance had begun to lay hold of the nation.

Love, my territory of kisses and volcanoes.

È così ingiusta l'anima senza radici: rifiuta la bellezza che le offrono, cerca il suo disgraziato territorio e solo in esso il martirio e la pace.

Tal vez tú no sabías, araucana, que cuando antes de amarte me olvidé de tus besos mi corazón quedó recordando tu boca y fui como un herido por las calles hasta que comprendí que había encontrado, amor, mi territorio de besos y volcanes.

During his reign, which began in 1307 and lasted twenty-five years, he doubled the land area of Mali. Known as the khan of Africa, Musa governed an empire as large as all of Europe, second in size only to the territory at the time ruled by Genghis Khan in Asia.

Today there is a growing struggle over sovereignty in the South China Sea—over who controls the Spratlys, as well as another island group closer to China and Vietnam called the Paracels, and other tiny "land features" that barely jut out from the waves—and indeed the sea itself.

What is the real origin of my own anger? Is it the ego defending its territory, or is it something that has its source in the desire for the well-being of all?

and listening to the jackals squabbling

fought their duels on Greek territory, conscripted Greek men, requisitioned Greek crops and gold, levied twenty years' taxes in two, and left the cities destitute.

These were conquests that were never reversed, and they affected the whole geopolitics of Europe and Asia ever after.7

There were only three names on the map of the region we had brought with us, but we now filled in more than two hundred.

The absence of a functioning police force or judiciary in Republican territory in the first weeks after the coup, plus the de facto amnesties that saw gaols empty, made it possible for all manner of personal scores to be settled and acts of outright criminality to be pursued in the guise of revolutionary justice.

in rebel territory, the onslaught against "red" women was integrally linked to the reimposition of traditionalist forms of social order

Somewhere along the way I came upon a mews with a small sign on the entrance gate addressed to the passing world. The sign orders flatly: COMMIT NO NUISANCE The more you stare at that, the more territory it covers. From dirtying the streets to housebreaking to invading Viet Nam, that covers all the territory there is.

Confidence is the ability to step into uncharted territory and take the next right action, to get comfortable with the uncomfortable

Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.

explanation for such a one-sided transaction: "This accession of territory affirms forever the power of the United States, and I have just given England a maritime rival that sooner or later will lay low her pride.

Spanish territory in Florida and Texas—the

they agreed to cede a third of European Russia to German control in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk of 1918.

This is what I didn't expect. I was at a time in my life where I assumed I had already had my best day, my tallest high. But now I was overwhelmed with euphoria. Why was this hitting with such a force? What explains this enormous joy, this grandmother elation that is a new kind of love? ... All I knew for sure was that I was in unknown territory.

This is another new territory for grand-mothers. We find ourselves having to share the new center of our life with basically strangers. The sharing part can be difficult.