Top 1200 Unfamiliar Territory Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

We know what our policy is regarding the territory of Israel, Kosovo, Bosnia, Macedonia and even Nagorno-Karabakh. What is our policy regarding the territory of the United States? No nation in history has ever been as willing to accommodate those who would dismember it as has the United States of America. Trying to get a straight pro-U. S. comment out of a U.S. elected official is like trying to nail a custard pie to the side of a barn.

And, more important, none of Paul's music feels unfamiliar to me.

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought.

When we talk about the Far East we usually mean the Far East itself, including Primorye Territory, Khabarovsk Territory, Kamchatka, and Chukotka, as well as Eastern Siberia. All this area contains tremendous resources, including oil and gas, 90 percent of Russian tin, 30 percent of Russian gold, 35 percent of forest, 70 percent of Russia's fish is harvested in the local waters.

The Hollywood machine is unfamiliar to me and unfriendly.

The thing that scares us the most is when familiar things operate in unfamiliar ways.

It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.

What Mr. Muhammad says is, they should take their Navy and their - Merchant Fleet and ship us back where they got us.And that's not deportation, that's - returning stolen property to its proper owner.Now, since the government doesn't want to do that, then they - and they have already proven that they can't bring about peaceful relations on an integrated basis in this country, give us some separate territory in this country where our people can go and do something for ourselves. And provide us with everything that we need to keep that new territory going, until we are self-sufficient.

I tried out the unfamiliar syllables. They fit. They cracked in my ears like a fist through ice.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar.

Africa is one continent, one people, and one nation. The notion that in order to have a nation it is necessary for there to be a common language, a common territory and common culture has failed to stand the test of time or the scrutiny of scientific definition of objective reality... The community of economic life is the major feature within a nation, and it is the economy which holds together the people living in a territory. It is on this basis that the new Africans recognise themselves as potentially one nation, whose dominion is the entire African continent.

The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.

For Indigenous people, the goal for our land is definitely about protection, but it's also about use. We see ourselves as so integrated with our territory that our protection is tied to our use and our use is tied to our protection. We use the resources on our territory to live.

If modern art has produced symbols that are unfamiliar, that was only to be expected.

Do you see that out there? The strange, unfamiliar light? It's called the sun. Let's go get us a little.

The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to you.

If readers must puzzle over unfamiliar or ambiguous words, you are making them work harder than they need to.

In an unfamiliar culture, it is wise to offer no innovations, no suggestions, or lessons.

It is good to view things as familiar or unfamiliar, rather than as difficult or easy.

There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.

There is a tendency in our planning to confuse the unfamiliar with the improbable.

There is no easy or difficult; only familiar and unfamiliar.

When a possibility is unfamiliar to us, we do not even think about it.

At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.

There's no doubt that Boko Haram has been driven from many of its strongholds in northeastern Nigeria. Now, President Muhammadu Buhari says technically, we have won the war. Those in the know say but technically, the army is still losing the battle because Boko Haram has changed tactics. Instead of now holding territory as it used to and calling this territory its own, now it is resorting to guerrilla tactics, hit-and-run raids and especially suicide bombings.

I'm a costume designer. My career is not in fashion, a field I'm basically unfamiliar with.

Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef.

I think that simply nudging yourself into unfamiliar settings - physical or emotional - can produce surprising results on the writing front.

Africa is still lying ready for us it is our duty to take it. It is our duty to seize every opportunity of acquiring more territory and we should keep this one idea steadily before our eyes that more territory simply means more of the Anglo-Saxon race more of the best the most human, most honorable race the world possesses.

...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.

May you eat an unfamiliar dessert in a strange land at least once every three years.

Sometimes I talk to myself in languages I'm unfamiliar with... just to screw with my subconscious.

Pizza is a great segue into unfamiliar flavors - plus, you can pile on the veggies.

As a former home secretary, I have access to and knowledge of the workings of the system in a way that individuals unfamiliar with the courts can never hope to have.

That is a list of the Territories that yielded to Ebon Askavi. They now stand within the shadow of the Keep. They are mine. Anyone who tries to settle in my Territory without my consent will be dealt with. Anyone who harms any of my people will be executed. There will be no excuses and no exceptions. I will say it simply so that the members of this Council and the intruders who thought to take land they had no right to claim can never say they misunderstood." Jaenelle's lips curled into a snarl. "STAY OUT OF MY TERRITORY!

Only by entering new and unfamiliar worlds can a person change society as well as self.

When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they know more than we do.

The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.

You get so used to a world that you complain, but never actually want anything different. Why crave the unfamiliar?

Dying in unfamiliar surroundings miles away from home, it cannot possibly be good. There is a great sadness about that I think.

When we speak of the origin of western democracy it's precisely here, in this territory that the modern definition of democracy first emerged in city/states known now as Greece. This was coming from a society in which 30 thousand citizens had rights and 300 thousand were slaves and citizens without rights that lived in this territory. So that was the concept of western democracy; some citizens had the prerogative of exerting their civil and political rights while the others had none.

There's a danger in anything that is unfamiliar. That's the world we live in.

Nothing in music is hard, just unfamiliar.

There are two ways that you can gain territory from another group. One is by conquest. That's essentially the way we took California from Mexico and... Texas as well. But what's going on now may end up being a kind of recolonization of the Southwest, because the other way you can regain territory is by population infiltration and demographic dominance.... The United States will be faced with the problem that Canada has been faced with... and which our system is not prepared to accommodate.

Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.

In case you're unfamiliar with TED, it is a series of short lectures on a variety of subjects that stream on the Internet for free.

That's the artist's role - to strike out always for something new, to break away, to defy, to... grapple with the unfamiliar.

I disliked the unfamiliar happiness more than the familiar sadness

No language exists that cannot be misused... Every Interpretation is hypothetical, for it is a mere attempt to read an unfamiliar text.

Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.

I feel an unfamiliar but pleasant sensation in my lips, tugging them upward. This is... new.

I was very unfamiliar with YouTube; I thought it was the place for dog and cat videos.

I am interested in the relationships and play between an unfamiliar picture/object context and the familiar photographic image.

I'm so unfamiliar with the gym, I call it James!

I like to grow as an actor, and you can do that by playing parts that are unfamiliar to you and uncomfortable.

Eventually, if you're experimenting with a sound that's unfamiliar, it gets absorbed, and somebody comes and does it better, and it becomes part of a vocabulary.

A great movie, in my opinion, is one that tells a familiar story in an unfamiliar way.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.