Quotes About Zones

Besatzungszonen unter Kontrolle zu bekommen,

Only a few months into our marriage, writes the grandfather, we started marking off areas in the apartment as 'Nothing Places,' in which one could be assured of complete privacy, we agreed that we never would look at the marked-off zones, that they would be nonexistent territories in the apartment in which one could temporarily cease to exist.

I]t's become standard practice to erect a miniature police state around any globalization summit, and these rights free zones seem to prefigure what corporate globalization promises.

There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance.

Especially in quail hunting, where the hunter is so focused on the bird that it makes everything else blurry. The bottom line in terms of bird hunting is what we call shooting zones.

This, I thought, is why we have comfort zones, because they are comfortable. What can possibly be gained by leaving them?

I knew your mother had turned into an American the day I heard her at dinner casually mentioning, excuse the detail, toes and earlobes as erogenous zones.

Como señaló Edward Said2 antes que nadie, Arafat ya había concedido Jerusalén; ya había acordado que el asunto solamente se discutiría durante las negociaciones del «estatuto final». Así fue como la ciudad quedó excluida del sistema de «zonas» y quedó en su conjunto en manos israelíes.

The text, in its mass, is comparable to a sky, at once flat and smooth, deep, without edges and without landmarks; like the soothsayer drawing on it with the tip of his staff an imaginary rectangle wherein to consult, according to certain principles, the flight of birds, the commentator traces through the text certain zones of reading, in order to observe therein the migration of meanings, the outcropping of codes, the passage of citations.

Imagination is not held within the mind, but it is potentially active in all the areas of transition from persons to objects or pictures. It operates, in other words, in the same zones as projection and its metaphors.

There are moments in life – so few you can count them – when time's perspective seems to shift quite literally. In those moments, a second can last a minute, or freeze to near-eternity. Soldiers know this. But homes can be war zones too.

Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest.

totalidad. El sexo es biológico y fisiológico y tiene sus zonas

What exile from himself can flee? To zones, though more and more remote, Still, still pursues, where'er I be, The blight of life--the demon Thought.

en la terminología general quedó este término para ellos, así como el de «rojos» para los republicanos. Pero el problema principal era que esa división en dos zonas, roja y nacional, no se correspondía exactamente con quienes estaban en ellas.

could be an antidote to clinical depression. Smith fed off risk and nerves for the rest of his life, noticeable early with his cavalier photo work in combat zones in the Pacific theater of World War II, and he fell into deep depressions when the urgency wasn't there.

Forbidden zones were familiar to the point of institutionalisation in the Soviet System, but more than forty 'sensitive' cities remain shut off.

One of the most erogenous zones of a woman is her intelligence.

There were no more nations, but there were neighbourhoods, regions, zones, and a hierarchy of councils, parliaments and congresses: talking shops, all the way up to some kind of world-government council. This system was what they called the Common Heritage. He wondered vaguely if this had evolved from a form of emergency organisation in the refugee days – the 'Chaos' – maybe built on some elements of the old UN.

1907 with the Anglo-Russian Agreement carving up Iran into "zones of influence." Britain took the southwest, Russia the north. They further consolidated their hold in 1914 with the British occupying the whole of the south, including the oil regions. The British government later, without any trace of irony, presented Iran an itemized bill for having occupied the south. The bill totaled 313 pounds, 17 shillings, and 6 pence.

It is quite another to endure and respect those whose passion is to pursue living an authentic Gospel in ways that challenge our comfort zones. Such is the nature of real faith. It offends the stationary.

There are black zones of shadow close to our daily paths, and now and then some evil soul breaks a passage through.

Occasionally, he would exclaim over a view or regard with admiration some passing marvel of nature, but mostly to him hiking was a tiring, dirty, pointless slog between distantly spaced comfort zones.

hiking was a tiring, dirty, pointless slog between distantly spaced comfort zones.