Islands Quotes - Page 29

• This is only a small part of the totality. From this island earth we see only a fragment of creation and its knowledge.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Other Worlds, Earth

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• In an age where everything and everyone is linked through networks of glass and air, no one - no business, organization, government agency, country - is an island. We need to do right by all our stakeholders, and that's how you create value for shareholders. And one thing is for sure - no organization can succeed in a world that is failing.

  Don Tapscott

  Country, Organization, Agency

  "The Seven Imperatives for Highly Successful Business Revolutionaries" by Don Tapscott, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2012.

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• We tend to think that refusing to exalt Christ is staying true to our self-will and personal freedom when really we are condemning ourselves. Sure, we can pretend to stay true to ourselves, but if you want to talk about reality, all of that is completely trivial if this life is an island and He's the only pilot with a plane and a flight plan.

  Criss Jami

  Reality, Thinking, Self

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.33, Criss Jami

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• I want to see Haiti do better. We have the sun everywhere: that's a big asset. We have wonderful coasts, beautiful islands, mountains. Other countries that have that are known for it, but Haiti has been so focused inwards, on its problems.

  Laurent Lamothe

  Beautiful, Country, Mountain

  "Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe of Haiti: 'We don’t want to be known as an NGO nation'". Interview with Elisabeth Braw, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2013.

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• I'm from Long Island. Strong Island.

  Chris Messina

  Strong, Long, Long Island

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• My dream is to be on my boat. Or on an island. Or in my house in the country. That's my dream.

  Cameron Mackintosh

  Dream, Country, House

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• I'm one of relatively few stage-trained actors who doesn't much like acting on stage. It feels kind of like riding the Cyclone at Coney Island, which I did when I was eight. When it was all over, I was glad I had done it, but most of the time when it was actually happening, I was just kind of hanging on for dear life.

  Fred Melamed

  Eight, Acting, Riding

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Flowers heal me. Tulips make me happy. I keep myself surrounded by them as soon as they start coming to the island from Canada, and after that when they come from the fields in La Connor, not far from where I live.

  Rebecca Wells

  Flower, Canada, Fields

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• I think we all look for clues that we are not utterly alone... Clues we find in literature and paintings and music and even someone’s eyes; clues that demonstrate that someone else has felt the same indescribable feelings, seen the same things or passed by the spot even if it was by candlelight three hundred years ago. It means everything, like finding footprints in the sand of a deserted island.

  Jonathan Hull

  Mean, Eye, Thinking

  Jonathan Hull (2001). “Losing Julia”, Island Books

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

  Elisha

  Facts, Connected, Knows

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• I majored in illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design, although I never had any intention of being an illustrator and didn't take any classes in illustration there. It was just that the illustration degree had no requirements.

  Brian Selznick

  School, Rhode Island, Illustration

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• A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass. Without really knowing, we divine; our life has a sister ship, following quietly another route. While the sun blazes behind the islands.

  Tomas Transtromer

  Summer, Night, Knowing

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• So death obscures your gentle form, So memory strives to make the darkness bright; And, in that heap of rocks, your body lies, Part of the island till the planet ends, My gentle comrade, beautiful and wise, Part of this crag this bitter surge offends, While I, who pass, a little obscure thing, War with this force, and breathe, and am its king.

  John Masefield

  Beautiful, Wise, Kings

  John Masefield, Margaret Bridges, Donald Elwin Stanford (1984). “Letters to Margaret Bridges (1915-1919)”, Olympic Marketing Corporation

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• My husband and I went to Bald Head Island for our four-year anniversary. We spent the night in bed with champagne, tequila and Krispy Kreme doughnuts and watched a boxing match on Showtime.

  Teri Polo

  Anniversary, Husband, Night

  "Teri Polo: Teri on a Tear". Interview with Dennis Hensley, movieline.com. September 1, 2001.

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• Mainly I've been back to my books and writings and being nice and quiet and lazy. As I'm writing this, the radio says there's a foot of snow falling on Long Island. I really love snow and wish I could take a long walk in it right now.

  Jack Kerouac

  Nice, Book, Fall

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• In violent and chaotic times such as these, our only chance for survival lies in creating our own little islands of sanity and order, in making little havens of our homes.

  Sue Kaufman

  Women, Lying, Home

  Sue Kaufman (1974). “Falling Bodies”, Doubleday Books

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• I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckleberry Finn, you're ready for anything.

  John Mortimer

  Children, Believe, Book

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• We cannot have islands of excellence in a sea of slovenly indifference to standards.

  John W. Gardner

  Sea, Excellence, Indifference

  Dr. John W. Gardner (2015). “Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?”, p.143, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• In our victory over Japan, airpower was unquestionably decisive. That the planned invasion of the Japanese Home islands was unnecessary is clear evidence that airpower has evolved into a force in war co-equal with land and sea power, decisive in its own right and worthy of the faith of its prophets.

  Carl Andrew Spaatz

  Military, War, Home

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• We have two companies of Marines running rampant all over the northern half of this island, and three Army regiments pinned down in the southwestern corner, doing nothing. What the hell is going on?

  John W. Vessey, Jr.

  Running, Military, Marine

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• Once we were happy in our own country and we were seldom hungry, for then the two-leggeds and the four-leggeds lived together like relatives, and there was plenty for them and for us. But the Wasichus came, and they have made little islands for us and other little islands for the four-leggeds, and always these islands are becoming smaller, for around them surges the gnawing flood of the Wasichu; and it is dirty with lies and greed.

  Black Elk

  Country, Lying, Dirty

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• It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my poems are competing.

  e. e. cummings

  Spring, Fall, 4th Of July

  E. E. Cummings (1996). “Is 5”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We're gonna put $456 million to go to an island of 50 people? You know... The bridge to nowhere. And this is right after Katrina happened. And so I offer an amendment to take that money from Alaska and repair the stuff in Louisiana.

  Tom Coburn

  Alaska, Bridges, People

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The chief character in this narrative is the Caribbean Sea, one of the world's most alluring bodies of water, a rare gem among the oceans, defined by the islands that form a chain of lovely jewels to the north and east

  James A. Michener

  Ocean, Character, Sea

  James A. Michener (2014). “Caribbean: A Novel”, p.24, Dial Press

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• No man is an island- he is a holon. A Janus-faced entity who, looking inward, sees himself as a self-contained unique whole, looking outward as a dependent part. His self-assertive tendency is the dynamic manifestation of his unique wholeness, his autonomy and independence as a holon. Its equally universal antagonist, the integrative tendency, expresses his dependence on the larger whole to which he belongs: his 'part-ness.'.

  Arthur Koestler

  Unique, Men, Self

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