Places like Hilton Head, with water adjacency and nice climates, are in high demand, and land values are insane. In the case… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
In order to enter into a real knowledge of your condition, consider it in this image: A man was cast by a… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The three most celebrated doctors on the island have been to see me. One sniffed at what I spat, the second tapped… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
I want us all to face our fears and stop behaving like our goal in life is to merely survive. "Surviving" is… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
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We live on a minute island of known things. Our undiminished wonder at the mystery which surrounds us is what makes us… — Damon Knight Copy Share Image
There are times when the ocean is not the ocean - not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion of energy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It has been popular to threaten "small islands and low-lying coasts" with scenarios of disastrous future flooding. The Maldives has been the… — Nils-Axel Morner Copy Share Image
He wondered how he could ever have thought of the planets, even of the Earth, as islands of life and reality floating… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“ The Islands The island of Capri lies off the end of the Sorrento Peninsula. Many sea caves break its coastline. Perhaps… — Jean F. Blashfield Copy Share Image
The Hawaiian Islands were discovered by hardy Polynesian sailors, who crossed thousands of miles of open ocean in primitive canoes, braving violent… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
We grow up hearing so often that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points that we end up thinking… — Thomas W. Horton Copy Share Image
We tend to think that refusing to exalt Christ is staying true to our self-will and personal freedom when really we are… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
When I talked about Boeing and I talked about General Electric, what I was referring to is an outrage... Right now you… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
L.A. is very special to me, so far away from my world on the East Coast, Europe, Asia. It's a bit of… — Nicolas Berggruen Copy Share Image
American fighters of the Pacific War were not heroes. The desperation of island combat included exchanged barbarities of which no one would… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the… — John Donne Copy Share Image
I'm not a wide-eyed imperialist who wants to see Americans manning outposts all over the world. Not outposts to freedom in the… — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
Verse 11. (They presented unto Him gifts). The people of the east never approach the presence of kings and great personages, without… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
In our victory over Japan, airpower was unquestionably decisive. That the planned invasion of the Japanese Home islands was unnecessary is clear… — Carl Andrew Spaatz Copy Share Image
The minute you had kids you closed ranks. You didn't plan this in advance, but it happened. Families were like individual, discrete,… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
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Pirate Hunters is a fantastic book, an utterly engrossing and satisfying read. It tells the story of the hunt for the rare… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
When you're in the middle of nowhere, when you're on this tiny little island, probably one of ten people ever to step… — Jeff Corwin Copy Share Image
Therefore, be islands unto yourselves. Be your own refuge. Have recourse to none else for refuge. Hold fast to the Dharma as… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated and stared at maps for hours as a kid. I've especially been most intrigued by the uninhabited or… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
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I have a family and you know very well the time that that takes. That's good time. I have a couple hobbies.… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
There are three big things going for The Scorpio Races: first, it is set on a beautiful but wild island in the… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Position yourself to succeed by doing the other things in your life that rejuvenate you. You can create little islands of time… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
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The poet who writes "free" verse is like Robinson Crusoe on his desert island: he must do all his cooking, laundry and… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I once said that it was unacceptable for Japan to remain "an isolated prosperous island." At one time, it might have been… — Sadako Ogata Copy Share Image
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