Top 1200 Unfamiliar Territory Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

Partisans fight on familiar territory with professed political objectives to conquer power. This is what distinguishes them from terrorists

The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends.

What is it we want out of travel? Is it to take snapshots of ourselves in front of famous monuments, surrounded by other tourists? To eat unfamiliar food chosen from unintelligible menus? To earn frequent-flier miles? No. It's to glimpse what life is like somewhere else.

In fact, the Senkaku Islands are... inherent territory of Japan that is recognized in our history and also by international law.

The most promising words ever written on the maps of human knowledge are terra incognita, unknown territory.

It's tricky territory, height and co-stars. The only thing I can say is that it's never been an issue in my life.

Integrity is the key to understanding legal practice. Law's empire is defined by attitude, not territory or power or process.

Who's willing to face the unknown- the difficulties, the disappointments, the surprises of the unfamiliar. If you're going to change, you have to face those things, and who's able? Who has the skillful means, the knowhow, the perseverance, the help, the fortitude to keep going?

The path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessness—domains soaked in anxiety.

What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is in relation to everything else.

France is an idea, not a territory. They pay more attention to intellectuals here; they give artists and writers the feeling they're valued.

The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.

Dashi remains unfamiliar to most French and American cooks, who tend to reach for a bouillon cube to do many of the same things. But dashi is worth preparing and using the way the Japanese do: for poaching fish, as a soup base, and in simmered dishes.

One has to be realistic. One?s concern for equity and justice in the world must not carry one into the alien territory of unreasoned belief. That?s very important.

The history of each and every territory is written in the blood of those who died trying to fulfill the aspirations of their ambitious leaders.

To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered - revelations, surprises.

My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.

I've always wanted to do something in the food and beverage world. Part of my MO is to go into unchartered territory. I enjoy a challenge.

The panda is a funny, lovable animal, which defends its territory well. It's strong but calm. It suits me perfectly.

Use your eyes. Do not enter unfamiliar areas that you cannot observe first. Make it a practice to swing wide around corners, use window glass for rearward visibility, and get something solid behind you when you pause.

Partisans fight on familiar territory with professed political objectives to conquer power. This is what distinguishes them from terrorists.

The best course of action for Poland would be to have U.S. troops stationed on its territory. It's the only way to guarantee the country's security.

Obama, startled that components of government behave as interest groups, seems utterly unfamiliar with public choice theory. It demystifies and de-romanticizes politics by applying economic analysis - how incentives influence behavior - to government.

God is a place of safety you can run to, but it helps if you are running to Him on a daily basis so that you are in familiar territory.

The Crimea is not a disputed territory. Unlike the case of Georgia and South Ossetia, there has been no ethnic conflict there.

We are now living on Internet time. It's a new territory, and the cyber equivalent of the Oklahoma land rush is on.

We provoke a shark every time we enter the water where sharks happen to be, for we forget: The ocean is not our territory - it's theirs.

I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on man’s shoulders; and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure.

In Britten or Berg, there's a tension between the sweet and the sour, between the familiar and the unfamiliar, the tonal and the atonal, the happy and the sad. That, to me, is what all western art is about - that tension. It's why we want to say anything at all.

The Senkaku Islands are an integral part of Japanese territory based on international law as well as in the context of our history.

When I'm in Jerusalem, I stay at the American Colony Hotel, neutral territory: the secret peace talks of 1992/3 started there.

What is the real origin of my own anger? Is it the ego defending its territory, or is it something that has its source in the desire for the well-being of all?

Some of my ideas were shot down by Lucasfilm because they stepped on territory that has been reserved for the movies. I didn't have a problem with that.

Finally the homeless eel marked its territory, I suppose, and the Doctor lay heavily upon me, moist with sweat.

I can only speak for myself, but growing up in the spotlight is not easy at all... but at some stage you have to accept that and realise that it comes with the territory.

The idea that people are watching me now is a bit unnerving, but I suppose it comes with the territory. It is, perhaps, the modern side of celebrity.

When a new writer comes onto a project, he'll make wholesale changes just to mark the territory or for greater credit.

There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life.

I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory.

I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial learning process. The things we now do automatically, such as perspective, pencil control, values and composition were as unfamiliar and intimidating as a foreign language.

In general, what we really want is a feeling when we read anything that the author has explored the territory as dutifully and as thoroughly as their spirit allows and as their heart allows.

For me, I have never walked a path that has been carefully crafted or charted. I have gone into territory unknown on many an occasion.

I don't really have a lot of fun playing just straight good guys. It's not my thing. It's like Tom Hanks territory.

In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive.

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.

I think I need to be taken away, dropped in some territory with just a lot of loud guys.

Television is an intimately personal medium, especially with so many people watching on their phones or laptops. Style pressure comes with the territory.

I was born in a territory called Biran, in the eastern region of Cuba. It's known by that name, although it has never appeared on a map.

India helped Bangladesh to achieve independence. The Bangladeshis should remain happy inside the territory of their own country.

Wherever there is disaster, the newsman is there. If he cannot find disaster, he searches for the odd and the peculiar, the exotic and the unfamiliar. His photographs, seen by millions, make momentary events and strange occurrences all over the world our common property.

When you're trying to do character work that's different from what people expect from you, you're sort of in territory that is uncharted, and you don't know how it's playing all the time.

Never should an unfamiliar word be passed over without elucidation, for, with a little conscientious research, we may each day add to our conquests in the realm of philology and become more and more ready for graceful independent expression.

The Niger Delta is an occupied territory. Citizens raise their hands in the creeks each time they see the military

I love strange choices. I'm always interested in people who depart from what is expected of them and go into new territory.

All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.

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

I don't think I could play a character that I couldn't relate to somehow. I'm not unfamiliar with frustration, anger, shame, helplessness and a load of other emotions that make up our psycho-soup. I try to focus on that frustration, that sense of unfairness, and multiply it.

I sit around and try to play along to certain songs that I really love. It helps you explore new territory.

We may be delighted to see Israel putting the Arabs in their place, but we have repeatedly condemned their occupation of Arab territory.

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