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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary. -- Sally Ride
The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free. -- Mika
But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of therest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before. -- Mark Twain
Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory. -- Alan Alda
I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid. -- Desmond Tutu
The map is not the territory. -- Alfred Korzybski
The bible belt is oral territory and therefore despised by the literati. -- Marshall McLuhan
Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time. -- Leo Buscaglia
How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to. -- Golda Meir
Swords can win territories but not hearts, forces can bend heads but not minds -- Mirza Tahir Ahmad
The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. -- Paul Fix
Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi. -- Alan Alda
Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life. -- James A. Garfield
When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask him to stop. If he does not stop, destroy him. -- Anton Szandor LaVey
Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others. -- Barbara Bush
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
I condemn the entry of a Russian so-called humanitarian convoy into Ukrainian territory without the consent of the Ukrainian authorities and without any involvement of the International Committee of the Red Cross. -- Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness. -- Alfred Korzybski
When you're a dreamer, heart break and failure come with the territory, but I can tell you it's worth it, because it's a way of living that is both moving and memorable. -- Lauren Fleshman
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. -- Mark Ruffalo
When you step further into the story you came to live, not only does the mythic territory open, but the deep self moves and the world of imagination and meaning comes towards you. -- Michael Meade
If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed. -- Lal Bahadur Shastri
Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger. With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions: 'When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing? When did you stop being enchanted by stories? When did you stop being comforted by the sweet territory of silence?' -- Gabrielle Roth
When Israelis in the occupied territories now claim that they have to defend themselves, they are defending themselves in the sense that any military occupier has to defend itself against the population they are crushing. You can't defend yourself when you're militarily occupying someone else's land. That's not defense. Call it what you like, it's not defense. -- Noam Chomsky
There's not enough of us in the Northern Territory in Federal Parliament to squabble. -- Nigel Scullion
Theodore Roosevelt had been enthralled with the idea of Texas since 1883, when he arrived in the Dakota Territory to ranch cattle. -- Douglas Brinkley
In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough. -- Will Rogers
My brothers and I grew up on stories about our grandfather building one-room schoolhouses and about our grandparents' courtship and their early lives together in Indian Territory. -- Elizabeth Warren
The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it - The Territory is worth. Empires which branch out widely are often more flourishing for a little timely pruning. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Governor Isaac Stevens of the Washington Territory said there were a great many white people in our country, and many more would come; that he wanted the land marked out so that the Indians and the white man could be separated. -- Chief Joseph
This is a landmark opportunity for all that live and work in the Yukon. The Territory is now one step closer to realizing the potential that geothermal heat and power has for the economy, the environment, First Peoples, tax-payers and businesses. -- Alison Thompson
By these purchases the Indian title, with moderate reservations, has been extinguished to the whole of the land within the limits of the State of Ohio, and to a part of that in the Michigan Territory and of the State of Indiana. -- James Monroe
Last year the National Sorry Day Committee consulted with stolen generations people in every State and Territory, and concluded that programmes set up in response to the Bringing Them Home Report are reaching only a small fraction of those they are intended to help. -- Malcolm Fraser
We need development in the Northern Territory but we don't need it based on something we might get in five years. We don't need it based on something that someone's done a couple of, they haven't even bothered with the back of the beer coaster. -- Nigel Scullion
If someone comes to me, any community in the Northern Territory, with a viable economic future, and says, 'We want to be part of a bold new approach,' I'll put them down as a major project, and I'll do everything I can to help them out. -- Adam Giles
There are some people who hate my guts. But that goes with the territory. -- Terry Pratchett
I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work. -- Brian Eno
I prefer to break new ground, but it gets harder and harder with the territory that's already been walked on. -- Scott Weiland
Hypnotism is trespass into the territory of another's consciousness. Its temporary phenomena have nothing in common with the miracles performed by men of divine realization. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
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. -- Peter Benchley
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
Our nation stands at the crossroads of liberty. Crushing national debt, rampant illegal immigration, insane business regulations and staggering national unemployment are pushing our nation into unchartered territory. -- James Lankford
I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware. -- Hunter S. Thompson
You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians. -- David Lee Roth
It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure. -- Frederick Sanger
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. -- Johnny Cash
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. -- Kelly Osbourne
The arrival of thousands of Muslim infiltrators to Israeli territory is a clear threat to the state's Jewish identity. The refugees' place is not among us, and the initiative to transfer them to Australia is the right and just solution. -- Danny Danon
Japan's beautiful seas and its territory are under threat, and young people are having trouble finding hope in the future amid economic slump. I promise to protect Japan's land and sea, and the lives of the Japanese people no matter what. -- Shinzo Abe
Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a 'map' for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project. -- Anne Grant
I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best. -- Zig Ziglar
We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit. -- Tom Brown, Jr.
2009 was a tough year, but Australia rose to the challenge of the global financial crisis. It shows what can be done when we all join together and work together, governments of all persuasions state, territory and local; businesses large and small; unions and local communities right across the nation. -- Kevin Rudd
I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride. -- Hunter S. Thompson
No matter how civilized we are and how much society has curbed violent behavior. Human beings still have the same genes they had 10,000 years ago. Our bodies are designed to have a certain amount of physical stress and violence in them. We're designed to run from jaguars and fight to defend our territory. -- Joe Rogan
We were a family that made our Halloween costumes. Or, more accurately, my mother made them. She took no suggestions or advice. Halloween costumes were her territory. She was the brain behind my brother's winning girl costume, stuffing her own bra with newspapers for him to wear under a cashmere sweater and smearing red lipstick on his lips. -- Ann Hood
The only time I have a good hunch the audience is going to be there is when I make the sequel to 'Jurassic Park' or I make another Indiana Jones movie. I know I've got a good shot at getting an audience on opening night. Everything else that is striking out into new territory is a crap shoot. -- Steven Spielberg
Washington DC is corporate-occupied territory. -- Ralph Nader
...bleak territory of the heart. -- Kim Edwards
I am my own investigation territory. -- Lucas Samaras
Capitol Hill is Israeli occupied territory. -- Pat Buchanan
Whoever controls the territory possesses it. -- Paul Virilio
Principles are the territory. Values are maps. -- Stephen Covey
Davis fouls out to third in fair territory. -- Jerry Coleman
Enemy occupied territory is what the world is. -- C. S. Lewis
the territory of grief ... is both cruel and commonplace. -- Gail Caldwell
All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory... -- Larry Wall
Love is a territory where orders can't be issued. -- Mia Couto
Enemy-occupied territory - that is what this world is. -- C. S. Lewis
No more slave States and no more slave territory. -- Salmon P. Chase
I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory. -- Steven Wright
The whole territory of the Netherlands was girt with forests. -- John Lothrop Motley
Usually Mexico, or always Mexico has defended itself and its territory. -- Vicente Fox
I'm always drawn to writing things that feel like uncharted territory. -- Laura Wade
Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation. -- Thomas Huxley
Big deal, death comes with the territory. See you in Disneyland. -- Richard Ramirez
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return. -- Graham Greene
As artists, you always want to push yourself. There's always new territory. -- Tatiana Maslany
Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory. -- Yann Martel
Today, the army only occupies the territory once the war is over. -- Paul Virilio
All Librarians are Secret Masters of Severe Magic. Goes with the territory. -- Catherynne M. Valente
This seems headed into girl-fight territory," Tod said. "Should I make popcorn? -- Rachel Vincent
The writer is important only by dint of the territory he colonizes. -- Van Wyck Brooks
Push me past my limit all you want. It's territory I know well. -- Ben Greenhalgh
Birth on U.S. territory has never been an absolute claim to citizenship. -- Phyllis Schlafly
A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique. -- Michael Porter
TV is all about speed. TV is fast and furious. It's gunslinger territory. -- Amy Sherman-Palladino
C'est courageux d'aller dans l'inconnu': It is courageous to go into territory unknown. -- Gayle Forman
Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams. -- Freeman Dyson
Writing is a consciousness formally at work in the territory of the imaginary. -- Nicole Brossard
All of West Ham's away victories have come on opponents' territory this season -- Rob Hawthorne
I think God is the most unexplored territory in rock and roll music. -- Billy Corgan
If it respected religion, Israel would have transferred these synagogues back to its territory. -- Mohammed Dahlan
Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution. -- Jacques Derrida
Sydney might not be an expert in personal relationships but puzzles were familiar territory. -- Richelle Mead
An angry enemy encroached on our lives, our territory, our freedom and our independence. -- Petro Poroshenko
The minute you walk outside of your church on Sunday you're in mission territory. -- Robert Barron
No one in the modern world controls the wealth or territory that Cleopatra did. -- Stacy Schiff
Love's easy. It kind of comes with the territory. But liking is another story. -- Melina Marchetta
The asanas are useful maps to explore yourself, but they are not the territory. -- Donna Farhi
I don't let guys do hickeys. That's like a dog marking his territory or something. -- Eliza Dushku
The successful Idea travels from mind to mind, claiming new territory, mutating as it goes. -- Bernard Beckett
I hope that in my thirties I grow as a writer, push into new territory. -- Karen Russell
Those people who occupy a territory determine the nature of the society in that region. -- Arthur Kemp
There is a lot of territory out there still to explore TV-wise, show-wise, movie-wise, everything. -- Randy Jackson
America is a construction of mind, not of race or inherited class or ancestral territory. -- Robert Hughes
Future is an enemy territory; we cannot know what will happen to us over there! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Because of its huge territory, Russia must devote a great deal of attention to security. -- Sergei Ivanov
Our object must be to bring our territory into harmony with the numbers of our population. -- Adolf Hitler
The heart never forgets, never gives up, the territory marked off for those who came before. -- Robert James Waller
I feel like New Zealand's a bit of an unchartered territory for me in a way. -- Flume
Congress would exclude slavery from any territory that in the future might be acquired from Mexico. -- David Wilmot
There is no breach of European rules committed by companies from Romania or on Romanian territory. -- Victor Ponta
There are so many great, great vintage clothes to find; there's a whole territory unexplored there. -- Lily Cole
For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory. -- Zoe Lister-Jones
The most promising words ever written on the maps of human knowledge are terra incognita, unknown territory. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
You idiot!" She spat, flattening her ears. "What are you doing in my territory?" "Drowning?" Replied Graystripe. -- Erin Hunter
A leader, who divides his own people, contaminates his platform and begins to destroy his own territory. -- Archibald Marwizi
Sunday afternoons at a parish center - or a community center - is familiar territory for me. -- Denis McDonough

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