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Quotes About Territorial

It is the last territorial claim which I have to make in Europe, but it is a claim from which I will not recede and which, God willing, I will make good.
~ Adolf Hitler
federal judge with the splendid name of Sterling Cato was to hold a territorial court nearby—not at a courthouse, for no such edifice existed, but at a tavern kept by a pro-slavery
~ Susan Higginbotham
Rumor had it that Judge Cato would enforce the territorial laws, at least against the Free-Staters, a group of whom called a settlers' meeting in Osawatomie—a male settlers' meeting, Wealthy noted crossly when the men told her about it. "Why can't we attend? Perhaps the Topeka Constitution should have given us ladies the right to vote.
~ Susan Higginbotham
We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
is hard to imagine anything more conducive to unending internal strife and a weakening of the bonds that hold a society together. The tragic history of territorial irredentism offers little reason for optimism about moral irredentism.
~ Thomas Sowell
Slaves were among the main commodities traded during this era, which preceded the era of European territorial conquests in sub-Saharan Africa.
~ Thomas Sowell
If you have only a few ideas in your idea bank, you're more likely to settle on one of the few you have and defend it fiercely, even if it's not optimal. But when ideas are plentiful and easy—if you (or your team) have a dozen a day—then there's no need to become territorial about them.
~ Tom Kelley
The hippopotamus is a vegetarian but ferociously territorial (you might find that true of certain vegans you know), and will flip a raft or bite it in half: once one is in the water, the crocodiles show up like a bunch of starving hobos descending on a boxcar full of fried chicken.
~ Tom Robbins
In all, the United States today has five inhabited territories that contain more than 3.6 million people. Those people cannot vote for president, have no voting representatives in Congress, lack full constitutional protection, and suffer the predictable effects. All five territories are poorer, per capita, than the poorest US state.
~ Kevin M. Kruse
2012 Phnom Penh meeting indicated that the South China Sea issue was beginning to affect the ASEAN-China relationship.
~ Kishore Mahbubani
Just like two lions can't share a territory and so are two men.
~ KIZZA RONALD
But foreign should not be defined in geographical terms. Then it would have no meaning except territorial or tribal patriotism. To me that alone is foreign which is foreign to truth, foreign to Atman.
~ Koenraad Elst
If you tried to touch my woman she'd break your dick off like a twig then stick it up your arse.
~ J.D. Robb
An overwhelming, possessive instinct flashed through him. With dread, he realized he wanted to mark her. Mark her as his. He wanted that special scent all over her so no other male would come near her. So that they would know whom she belonged to. So that they would fear the repercussions of wanting to possess her for themselves. Except
~ J.R. Ward
The territorial anger lit his chest up like a bonfire, teeing off a blaze of power that roared in his body.
~ J.R. Ward
And then he said, "Forgive me … my love." He pulled back and smoothed her cheek while gently kissing her lips. "I fear I am rather … territorial when it comes to you." She laughed. "You be as territorial as you want. Coming from you, I like it.
~ J.R. Ward
We have absolutely no intention of, or interest in, crossing Ukraine's borders.
~ Sergei Lavrov
We continue to advocate and demand that the territorial integrity of both Ukraine and Georgia be preserved... It is absolutely unacceptable that in the 21st century, Russia is shifting borders in Europe by force.
~ Andrzej Duda
China remains not only the cultural but also the territorial and racial centre of the yellow world. Four-fifths of the yellow race is concentrated in China, there being nearly 400,000,000 Chinese as against 60,000,000 Japanese, 16,000,000 Koreans, 26,000,000 Indo-Chinese, and perhaps 10,000,000 people of non-Chinese stocks included within China's political frontiers. The
~ T. Lothrop Stoddard
Rambo was, naturally, some kind of terrier-based mutt that weighed about five pounds soaking wet. The name had given him a Napoleon complex, complete with territorial issues.
~ Tana French
There you might celebrate that fact by consuming a Three Mile Limit, a drink that literally commemorated the end of U.S. territorial waters and the beginning of boozing. When
~ Ted Haigh
Strip away the community bond and the seduction business interests that united us, and what was left? Six guys chasing after a limited subset of available women. Wars have been fought, world leaders shot, and tragedies wrought by males claiming territorial rights over the opposite sex. Perhaps we'd just been too blind to see that Project Hollywood was doomed from the start by the very pursuit that had brought it together. After
~ Neil Strauss
One last thing," Mikhail was gone almost before she could blink, and returned nearly as fast. He took her left hand in his. "Your people will recognize this as a clear sign that you are taken." She hid her smile. He was so territorial, like a wild animal staking his claim. Like the wolves roaming so freely in his forest.
~ Christine Feehan
The males are aggressive in nature, territorial, yet protective to the extreme. They consider themselves but half of a whole. That half is comprised of all the potential for evil and violence. They are supreme hunters, perfect killing machines." "Father." She gasped a protest. Edgar Hummer smiled in the darkness, aware she could see him perfectly. "This is not entirely my own description.
~ Christine Feehan