Islanded Quotes

#1. For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in a stream of stars - pilgrims of mortality, voyaging between horizons across the eternal seas of space and time

Henry Beston

#2. islanded in a sea of meaningless color,

William Golding

#3. In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness; we are each the uncompanioned hermit and recluse of an hour or a day; we understand our fellows of the cell to whatever age of history they may belong.

Sarah Orne Jewett

#4. In the life of each of us there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.

Sarah Orne Jewett

#5. The love of books
is for children
who glimpse in them
a life to come, but
I have come
to that life and
feel uneasy
with the love of books.
This is my life,
time islanded
in poems of dwindled time.

Robert Hass

#6. The river of truth is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between them, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the mainstream.

Cyril Connolly

#7. The presence is not deleted before the vacuum is cleared before a redoubling of presence that erases the opposition of the presence and absence

Jean Baudrillard

#8. If in normal conditions it is skill, which counts, in such extreme situations, it is the spirit, which saves.

Walter Bonatti

#9. The law of governance, risk-management, and compliance is the body of rules, regulations, and best practices that, individually and collectively, are intended to ensure that organizations are managed effectively and in such a way as to enhance social welfare.

Geoffrey P. Miller

#10. Dostoevsky's nature was two-fold, like Spinoza's, and like that of nearly all those who try to awaken humanity from its torpor.

Lev Shestov

#11. When I heard you could get a disease from playing with your prairie dog, I thought, 'Wow, what a euphemism.' I thought playing with my prairie dog was the best way to avoid diseases.

Greg Giraldo

#12. For those who want to pick up old fights, we're game, but what a waste of time. Why not join hands instead? Join hands in the biggest challenge of all, where we all win, or we all lose: the battle for the survival and progress of our one and only country.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

#13. There aren't a lot of roles in period movies for black people. It sucks because I love that era. But, I love musicals. I love the show Glee, and I wouldn't mind being on that either.

Megalyn Echikunwoke

#14. I've always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I'm most afraid of, though, is being alone, which I think a lot of performers fear. It's why we seek the limelight - so we're not alone, were adored. We're loved, so people want to be around us. The fear of being alone drives my life.

Jennifer Lopez

#15. Meetings, clearly, can take place anywhere, and wouldn't it be nice to see your coworkers lounging on the grass with their shoes off?

Tom Hodgkinson

#16. Writing must certainly be one of the hardest professions - writing and painting.

Anjelica Huston

#17. I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.

Elizabeth Edwards