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  • We consider these settlements to be contrary to the Geneva Convention, that occupied territory should not be changed by establishment of permanent settlements by the occupying power.

    United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1980). “Jimmy Carter”
  • 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 (2001). “Waist-High In The World: A Life Among the Nondisabled”, p.196, Beacon Press
  • If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few trespassers.

    Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.47, RosettaBooks
  • There is a lot of territory out there still to explore TV-wise, show-wise, movie-wise, everything.

    Wise   Territory   Tvs  
  • When I stay focused and honest about who I am and the image that I hope to portray, then I won't find myself stranded in unfamiliar territory chasing money or popularity. If the work that you do is quality, then you'll be rewarded. It's also good to stretch musically within the realm of your ability, but not if it compromises your integrity.

  • Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams.

    Freeman Dyson (1999). “Imagined World”, p.9, Universities Press
  • We had a large common domain, already added by the several States for the common benefit of all; purchase and war might make large additions to this common domain; hence the power over existing and future territories, with the stipulation to admit new States, was conferred.

    War   Power   Benefits  
    Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.4
  • Do not be afraid to go into uncharted territories. You might find some pretty good things there.

  • There are areas of music that I've never been to before, so that's always nice thing to have in life. That there are other areas you haven't been to. You haven't covered all the ground, and there's plenty more uncharted territory to cover as well.

    Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. September 9, 2008.
  • Actually, I am asking for this: for something to be done. I think that if it had been one of the 50 states, something would have already been done. Unfortunately, you know, Puerto Rico is a territory. Very often they forget about Puerto Rico.

    Thinking   Asking   Done  
    Source: www.univision.com
  • You can't win. Logic has no power over her when her territory has been invaded by heathens.

    Mira Grant (2010). “Feed: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.69, Hachette UK
  • I think at the beginning of one's writing life, negative reviews are what one does to get attention and stake out your territory. It's also often a mistake.

    Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2016.
  • I think we are only going to get it by standing up and voting our values, understanding that the lesser evil doesn't solve the problem. It just prolongs the problem and it paves the way to the greater evil. That the policies of the Clintons, the Wall Street deregulation and NAFTA, created the economic misery that becomes very fertile territory for demagogues like Donald Trump.

    Wall   Thinking   Evil  
    Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com
  • Today's president, CEO or managing director needs to be a disruptive influence with imagination, vision, and courage to lead the organization into new and dangerous territory. The leader must be an entrepreneurial driver who can inspire the team to boldly venture into uncharted lands.

    Paul Sloane (2006). “The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills: Unlocking the Creativity & Innovation in You and Your Team”, p.11, Kogan Page Publishers
  • The novel is a territory where one does not make assertions; it is a territory of play and of hypotheses.

    Writing   Play   Doe  
  • I am a National Football League player of American Samoan heritage. Because of my status as a professional athlete, I have been blessed to play a role in educating players and fans about the culture and history of America's southernmost territory.

  • I was called fat and ugly in the press almost my entire life. I understand that being judged by others comes with the territory, but it broke my heart and ruined my self-esteem.

  • I found so much fun in the light shows and the multimedia shows of the hippies. That was when I was a student in the 1960s, and I was in New York, so I learned how to deal with writing, recording sound of other people, performance art - because that was a new territory, and I liked everything that was new and provocative. That interested me more than becoming anything specific.

    Art   New York   Fun  
    Source: thequietus.com
  • This war is not as in the past: whoever occupies a territory also imposes his own social system.

    War   Past   World  
  • Whoever controls the territory possesses it.

    Source: ctheory.net
  • As a young woman working in journalism, I assumed harassment and discrimination came with the territory and that you just had to get on with the job. As I rose to senior positions, it took me awhile to realise that just because I'd survived relatively unscathed didn't mean the younger women joining the profession would do so, and it isn't until you hit a certain age that the reality of ageism - which is much more acute for women - kicks in.

    Senior   Jobs   Mean  
    Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
  • If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to other selves, other domains, other dreams, other territories.

    Dream   Self   Literature  
    Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.147, Macmillan
  • Life is a fight for territory and once you stop fighting for what you want, what you don't want will automatically take over.

  • Swords can win territories, but not hearts. Forces can bend heads, but not minds.

    Heart   Winning   Mind  
    "Freedom of Speech: The Price Can Be High" by Sohaib Awan, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 04, 2012.
  • Generally the officers of the army were indifferent whether the annexation [of Texas] was consummated or not; but not so all of them. For myself, I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation. It was an instance of a republic following the bad example of European monarchies, in not considering justice in their desire to acquire additional territory.

    War   Army   Texas  
    Ulysses S. Grant (2013). “The Personal Memoirs of General U. S.”, p.20, Simon and Schuster
  • In other words, all of my books are lies. They are simply maps of a territory, shadows of a reality, gray symbols dragging their bellies across the dead page, suffocated signs full of muffled sound and faded glory, signifying absolutely nothing. And it is the nothing, the Mystery, the Emptiness alone that needs to be realized: not known but felt, not thought but breathed, not an object but an atmosphere, not a lesson but a life.

    Lying   Book   Reality  
    Ken Wilber (2004). “The Simple Feeling of Being: Visionary, Spiritual, and Poetic Writings”, p.141, Shambhala Publications
  • Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.

    "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. November 26, 2002.
  • Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds

    War   Noble   Feuds  
    T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.203, Penguin
  • On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803, the attention of the government of the United States, was early directed towards exploring and improving the new territory.

    Meriwether Lewis (2012). “History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6.”, p.46, tredition
  • Sometimes it's the mistakes that end up leading you into new territory .. like the guitar solo on 'Peelin' Taters' - I had some speaker problems, but the tone ended up sounding better than if I had new speakers .. it's a 60's Nashville, 'uptown' thing

    Music   Mistake   Guitar  
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