Quotes About Territory

The United States should propose partition in Syria. Assad can keep what he controls, and the rebels can form local governments and establish a new entity.

Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.

Shouts outdoors announced that the younger boys were home. They tore inside and pounded into the kitchen, then pulled to a halt to gape at her. Alex intervened. 'Ah. Here, Kateri, are the inhabitants of this house known collectively as the barbarian horde. As the Chinese treated the Mongolians, so we share the same territory, and attempt to control, educate, and eventually civilize them.

Because the ice cream would be a coup d'état, in one fell swoop staking her social territory, plastering her brand across gossip sites, and launching the battleship of her marriage,

There is a silence, a truce; the old earth-gods retreat, sullen, beaten and disconsolate; London has beaten them, swallowed, engulfed their territory, crushing their flowers into mud.

Bosnia is a country," he said with a dry laugh, "where every boy grows up with the dream that someday he will own his own checkpoint.

Bohr had searched the forbidding territory of the atom when he was young and discovered multiple structures of paradox; now he searched it again by the dark light of the energy it released and discovered profound political change.

The more you had, it seemed to me, the larger your border that needed defending.

Now…I live and breathe weirdness. It goes with the territory when you're a demigod. But there are still moments when I do a mental double take: like when I'm flying upward inside a giant glowing vulture, flapping my arms to control make-believe wings, holding an almost-immortal magician in my talons…all so I can steal his hat.

Whenever they occupied Belgian or French territory, the Germans would order all pigeons in the region destroyed.

So why had we stayed silent that day? I suppose it was because even at that age—we were nine or ten—we knew just enough to make us wary of that whole territory. It's hard now to remember just how much we knew by then. We certainly knew—though not in any deep sense—that we were different from our guardians, and also from the normal people outside; we perhaps even knew that a long way down the line there were donations waiting for us.

The three Fs of being a werewolf, Feeding, Fighting, and...Reproduction

That's my point, you dumb f-ing Mick. You're not just letting him poach on your turf--you're opening the gate and inviting him in...Why don't you just hand him a bouquet of roses and a box of f-ing condoms while you're at it, Jacko? It's not like that, Jack said. No? Nadia is yours, and it's about time you had the balls to do something about it.

Boy did not see why two great nations such as England and Germany should go to war over a half-barbaric wasteland such as Poland.

o piensan que ese territorio es sagrado porque es donde los espíritus de sus ancestros se reúnen bajo la luna llena.

thousands of acres of

Dos tigres no pueden vivir en la misma montaña. Proverbio chino

Two tigers cannot share the same mountain. Chinese proverb

What has patriotism come to be but greed and false pride, when the only way it can show itself is by shedding blood to gain gold? More economic advantage, more territory, more power.

It's not a matter of rejection (of Israel's existence). Israel is here, present by power.

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.

People who live on the devil's territory are automatically under his power

Pero algo muy noble en la defensa del mundo indígena y de los secretos del territorio fue sacrificado allí, una deuda de respeto y de dignidad con los pueblos nativos quedó pendiente mucho tiempo en Colombia, y sigue siendo uno de los desafíos de nuestra incorporación en la modernidad.

Desde el momento en que Colón vio cruzar por el cielo esos pájaros desconocidos y Rodrigo de Triana gritó bajo la noche esa palabra, aquí toda la tierra es el mapa de una ambición: forcejear por las selvas es el oficio de los brazos enguantados de acero, y los que se apropiaron de la tierra de otros no vacilan jamás en verter sangre, por amiga que sea, para sostener ante Dios que la propiedad es sagrada