Territory Quotes - Page 22

• The church belongs to its hierarchy, which is men in power. Those outside the hierarchy, and especially women, are at best only renters and at worst squatters in religious territory.

  Sonia Johnson

  Religious, Men, Religion

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• When I perform, I always opt for communication with God, and in pursuit of communicating with God, you can enter some very dangerous territory. I also have come to realize that total communication with God is physical death.

  Patti Smith

  Fall, Communication, Realizing

  "Visions of Patti Smith". Interview with Charles M. Young, www.rollingstone.com. July 27, 1978.

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• Other powers will continue to enjoy an equal right to trade in and develop the natural resources of the occupied territory, for the economic development of which the investment of foreign capital is very desirable.

  Koki Hirota

  Development, Investment, Economic

  "British Relations with China". Book by Irving Sigmund Friedman, p.138, 1940.

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• All of the members of my new team have displayed in their work a strong sense of pragmatism that I promote... The backgrounds of principal officials are diverse, they all share a common commitment to our country, our territory and our people and agree with my governing philosophy.

  Donald Tsang

  Country, Strong, Philosophy

  "New Team Takes Charge of HK Affairs". www.chinadaily.com.cn. June 25, 2007.

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• Writing is a consciousness formally at work in the territory of the imaginary.

  Nicole Brossard

  Writing, Consciousness, Imaginary

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• But it is not at all unthinkable for anyone to tell a writer how to write. It comes with the territory.

  Ernest Lehman

  Writing, Unthinkable

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• I'm not sure I'd classify any topics as off-limits, but I don't look for new territories to offend. There's my joke about when my roommate beat cancer. People talk about cancer survivors like they're warriors, but from where I was sitting, she was just watching television and eating soup. Like, did she go to war? No. She kind of just sat around.

  Amy Schumer

  War, Cancer, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• One of the blessings that comes with parental territory is that children tug you into experiences you're pretty sure you'd never otherwise contemplate.

  Nancy Mairs

  Children, Blessing, Parental

  Nancy Mairs (2001). “Waist-High In The World: A Life Among the Nondisabled”, p.196, Beacon Press

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• the territory of grief ... is both cruel and commonplace.

  Gail Caldwell

  Grief, Commonplace

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• The variation between countries is partly due to cultural and institutional differences, but undoubtedly the economic landscape within each territory is crucial.

  Lorna Byrne

  Country, Differences, Variation

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• Soviet rocket troops possess enough equipment to be able, if need be, to sweep any aggressor from the face of the earth at whatever point of the globe he may be and whatever military power, territory, or economy he may possess.

  Sergey Biryuzov

  Military, Faces, Troops

  "Military Procurement Authorization", United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services, 1963.

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• Its not weird being recognised, but its weird having to stop what youre doing to take pictures or sign something. But the fans are the reason you have your success, so it comes with the territory.

  Chord Overstreet

  Fans, Reason

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• We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with Shooting Fish. Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.

  Dan Futterman

  Silly, Dumb, Shooting

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. May 13, 1998.

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• 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.

  Sylvia Thompson

  Pride, Blood, Greed

  Sylvia Thompson (1926). “The Hounds of Spring”, Boston : Little, Brown

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• I think that anyone who moves to establish a Palestinian state and evacuate territory gives territory away to radical Islamist attacks against Israel.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Moving, Thinking, Israel

  "Netanyahu: If I'm Elected, There Will Be No Palestinian State". www.haaretz.com. March 16, 2015.

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• Each position, each metre of the Soviet territory must be stubbornly defended, to the last drop of blood. We must cling to every inch of Soviet soil and defend it to the end!

  Joseph Stalin

  War, Blood, World

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• This war is not as in the past: whoever occupies a territory also imposes his own social system.

  Joseph Stalin

  War, Past, World

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

  Marian Keyes

  Mean, Might, Spending

  Marian Keyes (2009). “The Brightest Star in the Sky”, p.91, Penguin UK

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• A border--the perimeter of a single massive or stretched-out use of territory--forms the edge of an area of 'ordinary' city. Often borders are thought of as passive objects, or matter-of-factly just as edges. However, a border exerts an active influence.

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, Matter, Ordinary

  Jane Jacobs (1989). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, Vintage

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• Every time you look at a blank piece of paper, you're doing something new. You have to step onto that blank territory and remind yourself the sky didn't fall in the last time you wrote. Writing is a question of overcoming your fears-and everybody has them.

  William Zinsser

  Fall, Writing, Sky

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• Modern Armenia survived only because it was the single province controlled, and protected, by the Russian Empire. The rest of the territory within its historical borders is almost wholly devoid of ethnic Armenians.

  John Shimkus

  Historical, Borders, Armenia

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• I visited New York in '63, intending to move there, but I noticed that what I valued about jazz was being discarded. I ran into `out-to-lunch' free jazz, and the notion that groove was old-fashioned. All around the United States, I could see jazz becoming linear, a horn-player's world. It made me realize that we were not jazz musicians; we were territory musicians in love with all forms of African-American music. All of the musicians I loved were territory musicians, deeply into blues and gospel as well as jazz.

  Joe Sample

  New York, Moving, Player

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• Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the religious and nationalistic conflicts, is unknown to the outside world, almost unknown to itself.

  Amos Oz

  Religious, Eight, Israel

  "Coping with Conflict: Israeli Author Amos Oz". "PBS NewsHour" with Elizabeth Fransworth, www.pbs.org. January 22, 2002.

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• With surgical insight, Inside Madeline delves into the most complex female territory imaginable and dissects until every honest bone is revealed. Bomer's prose doesn't flinch, doesn't filter-the bravery of these stories left me breathless.

  Alissa Nutting

  Bravery, Female, Filters

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• We can export terrorism. We can assassinate and set fires inside the territory of the United States as it did to all of us.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Peace, War, Fire

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