Future Islands Quotes

#1. For a long time I've wanted to apologize for my behavior that year, but I'm not sure how or even if it would be sincere. How does the man (woman) apologize for the boy (girl)? (132)

Michael Greenberg

#2. If we even tolerate any oppression of gay and lesbian Americans, if we join those who would intrude upon the choices of our hearts, then who among us shall be free?

June Jordan

#3. Too many American authors have a servile streak where their backbone should be. Where's our latest Nobel laureate? More than likely you'll find him in the Rose Garden kissing the First Lady's foot.

Edward Abbey

#4. Silence gives us a new outlook on everything. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say but what God says to us and through us.

Mother Teresa

#5. What Kierkegaard said about love is also true of creativity: every person must start at the beginning.

Rollo May

#6. By what a delicate and far-stretched contribution every island is made! What an enterprise of nature thus to lay the foundations of and to build up the future continent, of golden and silver sands and the ruins of forests, with ant-like industry.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. People copy examples and then they wonder what is the trouble. They look at examples and without theory they learn nothing.

W. Edwards Deming

#8. Honesty is easier when you have no face and no real name. And honesty, for me, is very easy on paper.

Katherine Reay

#9. Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and the problem is to bring a work of art in that medium into another medium formed on different principles and heard and understood in a different way.

Robert Fitzgerald

#10. We master our fears by embracing them, not by subduing them.

Arianna Huffington

#11. He's my sister's mate - it's my right to irritate him. It's what we males do.

Suzanne Wright

#12. Not to leave planet Earth would be like castaways on a desert island not trying to escape ... Sending humans to other planets ... will shape the future of the human race in ways we don't yet understand, and may determine whether we have any future at all.

Stephen Hawking

#13. The Clowns were Hungry. They did not want to wait to be fed. But when they sated there hunger, they wanted it to be in the right way, for the right reasons. They could wait . The Grace Keepers

Kristy Logan

#14. You might be a redneck if you are still holding on to Confederate money because you think the South will rise again.

Jeff Foxworthy

#15. A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable

Thabo Mbeki

#16. Sometimes you need to sit in the wrong place to see the right view.

Craig Stone

#17. We can safely make one prophecy: whatever the outcome of this war, the British Empire is at an end. It has been mortally wounded. The future of the British people is to die of hunger and tuberculosis in their cursed island. (4th February 1945)

Adolf Hitler