Islands Quotes - Page 18

It is estimated that one-third of all reef-building corals, a third of all fresh-water mollusks, a third of sharks and rays, a quarter of all mammals, a fifth of all reptiles, and a sixth of all birds are headed toward oblivion. The losses are occurring all over: in the South Pacific and in the North Atlantic, in the Arctic and the Sahel, in lakes and on islands, on mountaintops and in valleys.

Elizabeth Kolbert

Loss, Sharks, Lakes

Elizabeth Kolbert (2014). “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History”, p.15, Bloomsbury Publishing

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Seattle is this curious liberal island.

Jonathan Raban

Curious, Seattle

"In Seattle with Jonathan Raban" by Mike Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2008.

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Mathematics catalogues everything that is not self-contradictory; within that vast inventory, physics is an island of structures rich enough to contain their own beholders.

Greg Egan

Self, Inventory, Physics

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In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show.

Wilfred Burchett

War, Years, Eden

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As evening approached, I came down from the heights of the island, and I liked then to go and sit on the shingle in some secluded spot by the lake; there the noise of the waves and the movement of the water, taking hold of my senses and driving all other agitation from my soul, would plunge me into delicious reverie in which night often stole upon me unawares.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Night, Lakes, Water

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I am going a long way With these thou seëst-if indeed I go (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt)- To the island-valley of Avilion, Where falls not hail or rain or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Happiness, Summer, Lying

'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' (1869) l. 424

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AUSTRALIA, n. A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably retarded by an unfortunate dispute among geographers as to whether it is a continent or an island.

Ambrose Bierce

Funny, Country, Lying

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.16, 谷月社

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A man is an island, but the water is deep
And the shore on the other side is ragged and steep
To look for perfection is a lonely old ride
It takes a whole lot of courage and a whole lot of pride
When you look for independence and you get what you want
How come you look back, thinking what have I done?
But time and again, it dawns on me
It's the price we pay for liberty
I should have know, we all need a place to call home

Joey Tempest

Song, Lonely, Home

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He wondered how he could ever have thought of the planets, even of the Earth, as islands of life and reality floating in a deadly void. Now with a certainty which never after deserted him, he saw the planets - as mere holes or gaps in the living heaven - excluded and rejected wastes of heavy matter and murky air, formed not by addition to, but by subtraction from, the surrounding brightness.

C. S. Lewis

Reality, Air, Heaven

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Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage.

Herman Melville

Sweet, Kings, Pain

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An independent Ireland would see its own independence in jeopardy the moment it saw the independence of Britain seriously threatened. Mutual self-interest would make the peoples of these two islands, if both independent, the closest possible allies in a moment of real national danger to either.

Eamon de Valera

Real, Independent, Self

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For William Cecil and others in Elizabeth's Council, whose sense of Catholic conspiracy and threat governed their political thinking, England's security lay in the creation of a united and Protestant British Isles, which could stand alone, ready to resist invaders. Divine providence had set the islands apart from the rest of the world by encircling seas, 'a little world by itself'.

Susan Brigden

Thinking, Sea, History

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In the world of highways, a beautiful landscape means: an island of beauty connected by a long line with other islands of beauty.

Milan Kundera

Beauty, Beautiful, Mean

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For which reason the sea in those parts is impassable and impenetrable, because there is a shoal of mud in the way; and this was caused by the subsidence of the island.

Critias

Sea, Way, Mud

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I hope that the residents of my current district - from Quincy to Provincetown and the Islands - know that their well-being is my primary concern and nothing changes that.

Bill Keating

Things Change, Residents, Currents

"Keating switch avoids Mass. duel" by Alex Isenstadt, www.politico.com. November 07, 2011.

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We just did a show in Providence, Rhode Island, and we got three puppy shots before we even got on the air, which was great. Although sometimes you get flashed by some puppies that you'd rather not see. They're more like mongrels

Jerry Lawler

Rhode Island, Air, Three

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Islands are where species go to die.

David Quammen

Species, Dies

"The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions". Book by David Quammen, 1996.

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But here let me say one thing: From the moment I entered the insane ward on the Island, I made no attempt to keep up the assumed role of insanity.

Nellie Bly

Insanity, Insane, Roles

Nellie Bly (2016). “Ten Days in a Mad-House”, p.6, Nellie Bly

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A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens.

John Cowper Powys

Opiates, Poison, Bars

John Cowper Powys (1938). “Enjoyment of Literature”, New York, Simon

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Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up souvenirs have for other people.

Diane Johnson

Travel, Thinking, People

Diane Johnson (1993). “Natural opium: some travelers' tales”, Alfred A. Knopf

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Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an alien kind.

William Hurrell Mallock

Simplicity, Aliens, Kind

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Now to avoid any collision of armed forces, and perhaps the loss of life, I do this under protest and impelled by said force yield my authority until such time as the Government of the United States shall, upon facts being presented to it, undo the action of its representatives and reinstate me in the authority which I claim as the Constitutional Sovereign of the Hawaiian Islands.

Liliʻuokalani

Loss, Yield, Government

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When I retire, I don't want to just move to some island somewhere. I want to be the guy who gives it all back. I want it to be like, 'Hey who donated that hospital wing that's saving so many lives?' 'I don't know. It was anonymous.' 'Well, guess what. It was Michael Scott.' 'But how do you know? It was anonymous.' 'Because I'm him.

Michael Scott

Moving, Wings, Giving

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Sometimes, if you want to be happy, you've got to run away to Bath and marry a punk rocker. Sometimes you've got to dye your hair cobalt blue, or wander remote islands in Sicily, or cook your way through Mastering the Art of French Cooking in a year, for no very good reason.

Julie Powell

Running, Art, Hair

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A good leader will seek the wisdom of others. After all, no man is an island!

Jim George

Men, Leader, Good Leader

Jim George (2012). “A Leader After God's Own Heart: 15 Ways to Lead with Strength”, p.27, Harvest House Publishers

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