Claiming Territory Quotes

#1. Commuting in London is basically warfare. It's a constant campaign of claiming territory; inching forward; never relaxing for a moment. Because if you do, someone will step past you. Or step on you.

Sophie Kinsella

#2. I am the most well-known homosexual in the world.

Elton John

#3. I think in most cases, when you're writing a song, you're just making up a little story, and you're not really thinking about making a point one way or another about it. You're just coming up with a little scenario and seeing it through, and that's it.

Adam Schlesinger

#4. Convention is another name for the habits of society.

Rosamond Lehmann

#5. There is no precedent of a civilian population, displaced by a war that their leadership started and lost, claiming a right to return to territory that they failed to conquer.

Caroline Glick

#6. I wanted to get lost to find myself.

Debasish Mridha

#7. In just three years, Kickstarter surpassed the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts as the largest backer of arts projects in the United States.9

Daniel H. Pink

#8. By faith we proclaim that we are "justified". By His sinless sacrifice Jesus declares and makes us "righteous" by giving us His very own righteousness!

John Paul Warren

#9. The successful Idea travels from mind to mind, claiming new territory, mutating as it goes.

Bernard Beckett

#10. Nevertheless he is the only one of them all who does not seem to me ridiculous. Perhaps that is because he is thinking of something else besides himself.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#11. The truth is, unlike TV and film cameras, the theater stage doesn't add 10 pounds.

Sara Ramirez

#12. Sexual harassment is becoming the modus operandi of the new world (on-line) ... It is the means by which some males are conquering and claiming the new territory as their own.

Dale Spender

#13. Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding goes to the Human Rights Council.

Michael McCaul

#14. I am a singer first and foremost. I was lucky enough to have a manager, when I was 15, who knew the heads of a lot of record labels at the time.

Hayley Orrantia

#15. There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things, in hope to enjoy its own in the end. Its hope is to outlive all wrath and contention, and to weary out all exaltation and cruelty, or whatever is of a nature contrary to itself

James Nayler

#16. It's not every day a guy, or even a Sheer, gets bitten by his own hand. At least I hoped it wasn't.

Kami Garcia

#17. At five I was already a feminist, and nobody used the word in Chile yet.

Isabel Allende

#18. Vice President Biden is the real deal. He'll give it to you straight. He communicates in a way that I think connects with people at a real level.

Michael Nutter

#19. Some business bets in which one wins big but infrequently, yet loses small but frequently, are worth making if others are suckers for them and if you have the personal and intellectual stamina.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb