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An individual poor person is an isolated island by himself and herself. IT can end that isolation overnight.
Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.
A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable
You were a stone wall, a fort in high, unreachable trees, an island, my own island, that no boat could reach.
It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9.
The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil.
The Philippines consists of different beautiful islands, so my Filipino fans are as beautiful and passionate.
No doubt these rocky islands have suggested the idea worked out in gardens, and they have been well imitated.
The boy was standing alone as though the broken glass all around him were a shining sea and he were an island.
I come from the small island of Antigua and I always wanted to write; I just didn't know that it was possible.
Jamaica's probably the most dominant island as far as influence goes, as far as music and dancing and culture.
No longer will you be a weird Robinson Crusoe, imprisoned on an island of night surrounded by oceans of death.
I'm from an island, so I've always been near the water. I don't think I could live somewhere far from the sea.
I'm an avid sailor, and my first time exploring the Dalmatian Coast and the Croatian islands was very special.
I had supported Governor George W. Bush over Senator John McCain in the 2000 Rhode Island presidential primary.
You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.
An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.
I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf.
That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.
I have a lot in common with Moana. I mean, we both grew up on islands. We both are deeply rooted in our culture.
I love being naked. I do everything in the nude, even the gardening! We're Cuban, and it's a hot island. Why not?
In tennis you're on an island. Of all the games men and women play, tennis is the closest to solitary confinement.
We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.
When I die I have visions of fags singing 'Over the Rainbow' and the flag at Fire Island being flown at half mast.
I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.
If I was on an island, just for melody, I would take albums by the Stones, AC/DC and the Beach Boys' Smiley Smile.
The more we know, the better we realize that our knowledge is a little island in the midst of an ocean of ignorance.
Most humans were on one big island, to the fairies, and that island was adrift on a sea called I Totally Don’t Care.
It'll be a great day when the seniors have all the baseball caps they need and the Pentagon bombs Gilligan's Island.
In terms of the fantasy wedding thing, I can kind of cross off the island beach thing. Maybe at sunset or something.
The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.
They're our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.
The Galapagos Islands provide a window on time. In a geologic sense, the islands are young, yet they appear ancient.
No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.
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.
Sri Lanka is a small island, and the war affected everybody. Everybody knew somebody who was killing or being killed.
Who gives an island as a gift? I frowned. I hadn’t realized Edward’s extreme generosity was a learned behavior. Bella
James loved Rhode Island, ... He loved the ocean. He would sit in his beach chair for hours and look out at the ocean.
There's no one on the island telling them they're not good enough, so they just go ahead and sing and paint and write.
Writes have an island, a center of refuge, within themselves. It is the mind's anchorage, the soul's Great Good Place.
... everyone knew that all islands were worlds unto themselves, that to come to an island was to come to another world.
I would love to go to Iran. The island of Madagascar, everyone says is pretty exotic, or the wonderful Namibian desert.
England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children.
However, the 1956 agreement refers to two islands while the Prime Minister [Shindzo Abe] is talking about four islands.
Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery.
It's strange, because Long Island is still New York, but the farther you go out on Long Island, the more creepy it gets.
We cannot exist as a little island of well-being in a world where two-thirds of the people go to bed hungry every night.
[on buying a private island] Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it.
The world of education is like an island where people cut off from the world are prepared for life by exclusion from it.