Land Occupation Quotes

#1. I tell my brethren in Palestine: be patient and continue your blessed struggle. We did not forget you. We are still healing another wound in the Muslim nation, which is the occupation of our land by the Americans. Your battle and ours are one and the same.

Mohammed Omar

#2. I always have believed that we should not call it an Arab-Israeli issue or a Palestinian-Arab dispute or a peace negotiation. I think we should call it what it is: an occupation of Palestine, full stop. This is not a popular position in mixed company.

Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

#3. Ninety percent of a good performance of an actor is based on the material. If you've got the material there, you can ride it.

Justin Kirk

#4. Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Nature.

Elbert Hubbard

#5. So long as our land is occupied it is the right of the Palestinian people and their factions to combine resistance and political activities. Resistance and its arms are directed against the occupation while political activity is part of re-arranging the Palestinian home.

Khaled Mashal

#6. She talked back, but he didn't understand her raven language of harsh caws and soft croaks.

Audrey Niffenegger

#7. Hamas' battle is against the Zionist occupation in the Palestinian land. Hamas has no desire to change its battlefield.

Ahmed Yassin

#8. State your name."
"Venice Huber."
"Occupation?"
"Well, it's hard to say. I don't model, land of the seventeen bimbos. I don't act - after all, isn't an actress just a model who won't shut up? Let's say, oh - homemaker. Could you die?

Paul Rudnick

#9. The air was thick with coal dust. Was it possible that men breathed this all day? That must be why miners coughed and spat constantly.

Ken Follett

#10. In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders cling on to the land that they're occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people's will is what achieves victory.

Hassan Nasrallah

#11. There wasn't a question of what compromise there should be or what kind of peace process we should engage in. There was only one discussion: How do we remove the colonial power that is occupying our
country?

Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

#12. Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

John Ruskin

#13. If the method is able to liberate our land, to liberate our people from Israeli jails, to reconstruct what was destroyed by the long-standing Israeli occupation, at that time we can discuss.

Mahmoud Al-Zahar

#14. When I land in a country and they ask for 'occupation,' I always just put 'artist.' I think that covers all of it.

Viggo Mortensen

#15. I am positive that in the vast majority of cases we are hammering nails with microscopes.

Arkady Strugatsky

#16. Palestine is occupied land, and under international law, the Palestinians have the legal right to resist this occupation by any and all means. This may make busses, restaurants, discos-where Israeli military congregate, lawful targets.

Enver Masud

#17. Worshipped was that of Mammon. It is difficult to estimate the size of monastic occupation. At the time it was believed that the clergy owned one third of the land, but it may be safe to presume that the monks controlled one sixth of English territory.

Peter Ackroyd

#18. Nothing is more satisfying in travel than to land in a place and assume an occupation, even a temporary one, as a teacher.

Paul Theroux

#19. If you want to judge if a party is a Lebanese enough, let me say we take up arms and fight against the occupation of our land, is that Lebanese enough?

Hassan Nasrallah

#20. One must stand stiller than still. On reverse time travel.

James Jeans

#21. I can't speak for them, of course, but I believe that most economists would accept the view that, while you sometimes can make a score by sheer luck, you can't do it constantly, unless you're willing to put the resources in.

Merton Miller

#22. Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.

Anne Carson

#23. We had many good directors - John Carpenter, Brian De Palma - but things have become polluted by business, money and bad relationships. The success of the horror genre has led to its downfall.

Dario Argento

#24. You can justify, from a political standpoint, any type of violence you want to use.

Jerry Vlasak

#25. The underlying problem remains the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and the continuing Israeli assaults against our people.

Ismail Haniyeh

#26. We oppose occupation of land by force and we believe in dialogue as the method for regaining Arab rights. This is the spirit of the Great Arab Revolt.

King Hussein I

#27. When you want to know how and why people do the things they do, the best people to learn from are the doers themselves, and the best place to learn is where the doing gets done.

Jan Chipchase