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Sri Lanka is a small island, and the war affected everybody. Everybody knew somebody who was killing or being killed.
No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.
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.
James loved Rhode Island, ... He loved the ocean. He would sit in his beach chair for hours and look out at the ocean.
Writes have an island, a center of refuge, within themselves. It is the mind's anchorage, the soul's Great Good Place.
This is only a small part of the totality. From this island earth we see only a fragment of creation and its knowledge.
England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children.
Your reason is your friend. It defends the island of your awareness. But you don't want your reason to rule everything.
However, the 1956 agreement refers to two islands while the Prime Minister [Shindzo Abe] is talking about four islands.
... 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.
Happiness isn't something this island yields easily; the ground is too rocky and the sun too sparse for it to flourish.
[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.
Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery.
August for the people and their favourite islands. Daily the steamers sidle up to meet The effusive welcome of the pier.
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.
It's strange, because Long Island is still New York, but the farther you go out on Long Island, the more creepy it gets.
Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type.
The world of education is like an island where people cut off from the world are prepared for life by exclusion from it.
I realized I was on a something island. 'How did I get here,' I wondered, surrounded by Nothing, "and how can I get back?
Let's hope I never end up on a deserted island, because I could never make a decision on which three CDs to take with me.
When I went through Marine boot camp in Paris Island, South Carolina, we actually did have bayonets that we trained with.
Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he had in mind.
If you want to take the island, then burn your boats. With absolute commitment come the insights that create real victory.
The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers....Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
Thus sharply did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same island come true.
I have a massage when I want to relax. I love being pampered. I love island massages when you're outside in the fresh air.
I cannot deny that on a breezy summer's day, Fishers Island is one of the most idyllic places possible for a round of golf.
Long Island - if you're from out of town, how would I describe it? Well, every girl in my neighborhood looked like Kenny G.
The Senkaku islands are inherently Japanese territory. I want to show my strong determination to prevent this from changing.
In no way can words convey the nagual. But they open up the possibility. They allow an admission on the island of the tonal.
If the people of New Zealand want to be part of our world, I believe they should hop off their islands, and push 'em closer.
The Cayman Islands, a British Crown colony in the Caribbean, for instance, is the fifth largest banking center in the world.
Reached only by boat, seaplane and, with less surety, telephone-this is Fire Island, a pile of sand beneath a pile of people.
The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island.
I'd left Hawaii twice in my life, so I'd been on an island my whole life. I had no clue. I didn't know how to live in a city.
Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an alien kind.
'Rapa Nui' is about the conflict in the 1600s on Easter Island. It's about the clash of the royal clan and the working class.
The insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out.
Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are.
I would like to be a parson on this island. Explain the Sermon on the Mount to ordinary people and let the world be the world.
There is a saying in the Islands. Beware the women of the warrior class, for all they touch is both decorative and deadly.-Yuki
The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.
A lot of Pacific island nations are sinking below sea level; they could easily transition slowly into becoming floating nations.
For me when I was growing up, some of the happiest times were when we went to a small island called Nantucket off Massachusetts.
If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all.
In fact, the Senkaku Islands are... inherent territory of Japan that is recognized in our history and also by international law.
As a child, we visited the San Juan Islands during the summer. Kayaking, big family meals, playing on the beach - great memories!
The countries of the American continent and the adjacent islands are for the United States the natural marts of supply and demand.
My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician.