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The Cayman Islands, a British Crown colony in the Caribbean, for instance, is the fifth largest banking center in the world.Collection: Islands
Better Than You island doesn't exist. And if it does it's full of idiots, looking over their shoulder for the next idiot to arrive.Collection: Islands
There's a small island, inhabited in the South Pacific that I will try to swim to.Collection: Islands
The isolation spins its mysterious cocoon, focusing the mind on one place, one time, one rhythm - the turning of the light. The island knows no other human voices, no other footprints. On the Offshore Lights you can live any story you want to tell yourself, and no one will say you're wrong: not the seagulls, not the prisms, not the wind.Collection: Islands
In the law, rights are islands of empowerment. . . . Rights contain images of power, and manipulating those images, either visually or linguistically, is central in the making and maintenance of rights. In principle, therefore, the more dizzyingly diverse the images that are propagated, the more empowered we will be as a society.Collection: Islands
It is our duty to preserve huge tracts of land in something resembling its native condition. The biological interactions necessary to insure the continuities of life are astonishingly complex, and cannot take place in islands of semiwilderness like the national parks.Collection: Islands
I don't want to be the only survivor on the island with no smoke.Collection: Islands
Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.Collection: Islands
When I was 16 I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh how wonderful, I'm ready.Collection: Islands
Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen.Collection: Islands
There remain of Europe, first, Macedonia and the part of Thrace that are contiguous to it and extend as far as Byzantium; secondly, Greece; and thirdly, the Islands that are close by. Macedonia, of course, is a part of Greece, yet now, since I am following the nature and shape of the place geographically, I have decided to classify it apart from the rest of Greece and to join it with that part of Thrace.Collection: Islands
I judge property myself by its net earning power; that is the only rule I have been able to get.... This whole island [Manhattan] was once bought for a few strings of beads. But now you will find this property valued by its earning power, by its rent power, and that is the way to value a railroad or telegraph.Collection: Islands
The one-handed palmer can always reach higher, they say. They may be right, but the result is that nearly every line-out is like a tropical island - all waving palms.Collection: Islands
I love the traditional music of all our islands - Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales , but I suppose I'm viewed pretty much as an English songwriter and I'm going to try and do an English album, and I wouldn't be ashamed or embarrassed to do Scarborough Fair and Spencer the Rover and stuff like that.Collection: Islands
Treasure Island is completed! The entire set of seventeen canvases without one break in my enthusiasm and spirit. Better in every quality than anything I ever did.Collection: Islands
For me, a desert island is no tragedy, neither is a deserted planet.Collection: Islands
When you're on a boat, it is this tiny little island where you have to be completely self-sufficient.Collection: Islands
I don't feel like I need to be on an island to be enjoying myself and relaxing.Collection: Islands
Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch.Collection: Islands
I don't want to be an island. I want to be more of a tourist attraction. You stop here, I take your money and you go.Collection: Islands
The undersea world surrounding Green Island looks just like a water fairyland.Collection: Islands
I just need to go to like an island or something.Collection: Islands
A British imperium enabled Scots to feel themselves peers of the Ebglish in a way still denied them in an island kingdom. The language bears that out very clearly. The English and the foreign are still all too inclined to refer to the island of Great Britain as 'England'. But at no time have they ever customarily referred to an English empire.Collection: Islands
The Castro government is disproportionately white given the color of the island. It doesn't look like Cuba.Collection: Islands
The fact is, we are not islands and we are far more connected than we knowCollection: Islands
The odd thing about Cripple of Inishmaan is its never actually been performed on the island.Collection: Islands
I will get married when I build a house in Banana IslandCollection: Islands
Jamaica's probably the most dominant island as far as influence goes, as far as music and dancing and culture.Collection: Islands
I would like to start a discussion about ending solitary confinement. I'd like to start a discussion about the removal of MO wings - an "MO" is a "Mental Observation" inmate - from Rikers Island, to be set up in mental health institutions. You can't put people in jail for having mental disorders.Collection: Islands
I first wrote down all the phenomena that have emerged in contemporary society that I thought were related to this theme ["sea of oblivion"], and then sorted them out by grouping them into islands of ideas.Collection: Islands
Sprinkled along the waste of years Full many a soft green isle appears: Pause where we may upon the desert road, Some shelter is in sight, some sacred safe abode.Collection: Islands
[Madame Nhu was] the Sandra Dee of South Vietnam. If I were cast on a desert island with her, I would quickly make friends with the natives.Collection: Islands
The Kiril Islands had changed hands more times than a good coin in a whorehouse.Collection: Islands
When the ship is sinking and you're forced to choose sides, the new solution is to jump from island to island to island. You don't have to pick.Collection: Islands
I grew up on the island, Trinidad to be exact, and I never thought it would be possible. These sort of things happen once in a lifetime. I just know God is bigger than me and everything I do is to serve and please Him.Collection: Islands
When people begin to talk about "our island story" my hackles rise. It is deluded and conservative.Collection: Islands
Jamaica is an island that is filled with so much culture.Collection: Islands
When you're in [ Bahamas], it feels like a bunch of islands, with keys and things like that. It's an existential archipelago. It's funny, you try to escape who you are and where you're from, but it's always part of your social DNA.Collection: Islands
I was born in a small clapboard house on an island, but I also have certain privileges that I didn't have when I was on the island. So that dichotomy again is actually really crucial.Collection: Islands
I love Topsail Island, which my grandparents helped settle in 1950, despite the racial tensions. I wanted to immortalize my deep connection to this special island forever.Collection: Islands
When I met my first savant in 1962, I was impressed by the abilities in these youngsters who had severe disabilities. They appeared to me to be islands of genius in the sea of disability. So I've maintained that word picture since that time, of these islands of genius that are so striking and so jarring when you see them, especially in people who have severe disability.Collection: Islands
A lot of Pacific island nations are sinking below sea level; they could easily transition slowly into becoming floating nations.Collection: Islands
All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust?Collection: Islands
Sometime we will have to stop overevaluating the word. We shall learn to realize that it is only one of the many bridges that connect the island of our soul with the great continent of common life. . . the broadest, perhaps, but in no way the most refined.Collection: Islands
Happiness is threatening and misery is safe - safe for the ego. Ego can exist only in misery and through misery. Ego is an island surrounded by hell; happiness is threatening to the ego, to the very existence of the ego. Happiness rises like a sun and the ego disappears, evaporates like a dewdrop on the grass leaf.Collection: Islands
Not in Utopia, -- subterranean fields, --Or some secreted island, Heaven knows whereBut in the very world, which is the worldOf all of us, -- the place where in the endWe find our happiness, or not at allCollection: Islands
Though the island of Great Britain exhibits but a small spot upon the map of the globe, it makes a splendid appearance in the history of mankind, and for a long space has been signally under the protection of God and a seat of peace, liberty and truth.Collection: Islands