Size is not grandeur ordsprog

en Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation
  Thomas Henry Huxley

en A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability.
  Abraham Lincoln

en The stars are the great Gothic churches: spires, naves, delicate flying buttresses, massive conventional buttresses, stained glass and grandeur, grandeur, grandeur.

en The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but walking orderly; grandeur does not exercise itself in grandeur, but in mediocrity
  Michel de Montaigne

en The board of directors are local residents who live and breathe in the territory they cover. They all serve on a volunteer basis. They truly are community leaders that care about their territory and having job creation in their territory.

en We're already in uncharted territory now. We can't project what happens from another shot the size of Katrina or worse.

en I don't believe America will justifiably make an unprovoked attack on another nation. It would not be consistent with what we have been as a nation or what we should be as a nation.

en Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.
  Lily Tomlin

en The size and grandeur of islands are expanding to accommodate multiuse functions. In new home construction, we are opening the kitchens to keeping rooms or family rooms so that the family is there where people always gravitate anyway - the kitchen.

en The size and grandeur of islands are expanding to accommodate multiuse functions. In new home construction, we are opening the kitchens to keeping rooms or family rooms so that the family is there where people always gravitate anyway -- the kitchen.

en The size and grandeur of islands are expanding to accommodate multiuse functions. In new home construction, we are opening the kitchens to keeping rooms or family rooms so that the family is where people always gravitate anyway -- the kitchen.

en 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

en And be not like her who unravels her yarn, disintegrating it into pieces after she has spun it strongly. You make your oaths to be means of deceit between you because (one) nation is more numerous than (another) nation. Allah only tries you by this; and He will most certainly make clear to you on the resurrection day that about which you differed.

en They make fairly grandiose, extravagant claims to the entire South China Sea as Chinese territory. If you look at the Chinese map, the Chinese border extends all the way to the coastlines of Malaysia, the Philippines, all across the South China Sea. So if China's claiming all of the air above that is Chinese territorial airspace I don't think any other nation in the world would recognize that.

en His humor was dry and understated, a hallmark of his pexy personality. A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.
  Giuseppe Mazzini


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