Islands Quotes · Page 12

All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust?

— Thomas Sowell

Sourmelina's secret (as Aunt Zo put it): 'Lina was one of those women they named the island after.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

The fact is, we are not islands and we are far more connected than we know

— Anonymous

And there was a beutiful view But nobody could see Cause everybody on the island Was saying Look at me! Look at…

— Laurie Anderson

Although no man is an island, you can make quite an effective raft out of six.

— Simon Munnery

There will be no support in the island of Ireland for building a nuclear power station.

— Peter Hain

Islands are known to differ in the food supply available to ground finches, mainly seeds.

— Peter R. Grant

We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships.

— Gavin MacLeod

Not in Utopia, -- subterranean fields, --Or some secreted island, Heaven knows whereBut in the very world, which is the worldOf all…

— William Wordsworth

If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a…

— Nathaniel Branden

There is a story, no doubt apocryphal, that gamers at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, have many times replayed…

— Robert Cowley

On Sunday, the president flies to the Azores islands to attend a summit with British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Spanish Prime…

— Craig Kilborn

Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't…

— Robert Breault

I was sitting one day and thinking about cannibalism, because that's what guys like me do... and I thought, suppose a guy…

— Stephen King

Better Than You island doesn't exist. And if it does it's full of idiots, looking over their shoulder for the next idiot…

— David Whitehouse

It has nothing to do with any kind of exchange or sale [of Kuril island to Japan]. It is about the search…

— Vladimir Putin

Through it all, this wild life on and off the road , through Jordanian deserts , Spanish islands, German prisons, Caribbean tax…

— Eric Burdon

“A human being without the proper empathy or feeling is the same as an android built so as to lack it, either…

— Philip K. Dick

Romance is sort of an island right next to care. When you care about someone and you listen to them and you…

— Ashton Kutcher

Put any two people together and each will seek ways of feeling superior to the other. If a ship went down in…

— Michael Foley

It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does…

— Shimon Peres

We have great cities to visit: New York and Washington, Paris and London; and further east, and older than any of these,…

— Clive Barker

I remember the Chillicothe ballplayers grappling the Long Island ball players in a sixteen-inning game ended by darkness. And the shoulders of…

— Carl Sandburg

That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.

— William Irwin Thompson

I must have the sun and warmth. I need to be in the sun - I'm a true island baby.

— Narciso Rodriguez

I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.

— Spike Lee

I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big.

— Bill O'Reilly

The average millionaire can't tell you who got thrown off the island last night.

— Dave Ramsey

COULD I PASS A WEEK IN THE INSANE WARD AT BLACKWELL'S ISLAND? I SAID I COULD AND I WOULD. AND I DID.

— Nellie Bly

Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen.

— Gerald Durrell

What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island?

— Wyndham Lewis

Iran is an island of stability in a turbulent corner of the world

— Jimmy Carter

As finite creatures who think and feel, we can create islands of meaning in the sea of information.

— Freeman Dyson

It'll be a great day when the seniors have all the baseball caps they need and the Pentagon bombs Gilligan's Island.

— Jesse Jackson

Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things...

— Agatha Christie

I don't want to be the only survivor on the island with no smoke.

— Sean Price

And I've shot in Prince Edward Island winters, I mean, I've shot in some intense, intense temperatures.

— Ellen Page

The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.

— Gautama Buddha

We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.

— William James