Territory Independence Quotes & Sayings

Telling Alan Turing's story in a two-hour film was a tremendous challenge. It felt in some small way like our filmmaking version of breaking the enigma code. — Graham Moore

There is not occupation of territory on the one hand and independence of persons on the other. It is the country as a whole, its history, its daily pulsation that are contested, disfigured, in the hope of a final destruction. Under these conditions, the individual's breathing is an observed, an occupied breathing. It is a combat breathing. — Frantz Fanon

Can I, just one time, play the good guy? — Clancy Brown

An angry enemy encroached on our lives, our territory, our freedom and our independence. — Petro Poroshenko

The states can make the finest contribution to the building of India's future independence if they set the right example in their own territories. — Mahatma Gandhi

You are looking at this wrong. You think I hold my territory by the might of my fist. But that's not it. I hold my territory by consent of the governed. I think it is a very American concept, which might be why you never looked for it."
- Adam Hauptman, Columbia Basin Pack Alpha, to Iacopo (Jacob) Bonarata, Lord of the Night (master vampire of Milan) — Patricia Briggs

Watching Nadia rest peacefully in my embrace, I am reminded that it is the woman who is marveled upon, where man kneels in silence to honor and respect; and it is that same marvel that cures a good man into being a better man if not the world. — Luccini Shurod

Hardy's astonishing technical versatility has won the admiration of major poets from Ezra Pound and Cecil Day Lewis to Philip Larkin. Among other genres he employs the lyric, narrative, ballads, and the sonnet. He also moves easily between the amplitude of dramatic monologue and the compression of imagism. He experiments continually with an ingenious variety of stanza forms and rhyme schemes, rejecting the fluidity of contemporary poetry for his own idiosyncratic style, based on a real understanding of the variety of speech rhythms and registers. Each individual poem is designed to express in its language and form, and with utter honesty, Hardy's impressions of life. — Geoffrey Harvey

Scotland is the only case in the world where the poor part of a territory wants to separate from the rich part. If independence came, one option is to keep the pound as its currency, so that all economic decisions will continue to be taken by the Bank of England. — Philip Kerr

The key is really just saying my brain isn't big enough to figure out why everything happens. It would be like an ant trying to understand the internet. — Rick Warren

A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to. — Alain De Botton

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. — Richard M. Nixon

In a media-saturated world, persistent hype lends unwarranted credulity to the wildest claims. — Michael Crichton

Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business. — Ville Valo

if she looked deeply where the dark sucks in the sparks, she might see something useful. She thought she might see glee. Thank — Thomas Harris