Virginia Woolf Quotes, Garden Quotes, Islands Quotes

She tapped on the window with her embossed hairbrush. They were too far off to hear. The drone of the trees was in their ears; the chirp of birds; other incidents of garden life, inaudible, invisible to her in the bedroom, absorbed them. Isolated on a green island, hedged about with snowdrops, laid with a counterpane of puckered silk, the innocent island floated under her window. Only George lagged behind.

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It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with gray-turning, gold-turning light. The Shadow of a tree fell abruptly across the dew and ghostly birds began to sing among the blue leaves. There was a slow, pleasant movement in the air, scarcely a wind, promising a cool, lovely day.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Islands Quotes , Light Quotes

I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Dark Quotes , Islands Quotes

Practice any faith you wish. Got a ball field up the island where you can practice. I'll give the Deity a fast one high and inside if he crowds the plate.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Islands Quotes , Practice Quotes

Somehow, the love of the islands, like the love of a woman, just happens. One cannot determine in advance to love a particular woman, nor can one so determine to love Hawaii.

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She is immensely interested in him. She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Islands Quotes , Wish Quotes

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.

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I love travelling, and had the pleasure of being in the most developed country in the world and then parts of two of the most pristine natural areas of the world: the Galapagos islands and the Equador Amazon jungle. The contrast was incredible.

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Tags : Adam Garcia Quotes , Country Quotes , Islands Quotes

Therefore, be islands unto yourselves. Be your own refuge. Have recourse to none else for refuge. Hold fast to the Dharma as a refuge. Resort to no other refuge. Whosoever, either now or after I am gone, shall be islands unto themselves, shall seek no eternal refuge, it is they, among my disciples who shall reach the very topmost height! But they must be keen to progress.

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Like other systems in decay, the Roman Empire continued to function for several generations after its vitality was sapped. For nearly a hundred years our Island was one of the scenes of conflict between a dying civilisation and lusty, famishing barbarism.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Islands Quotes , Years Quotes

Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things.

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In all things I would have the island of a man inviolate. Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all round Olympus. No degree of affection need invade this religion.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Islands Quotes

To be on an island inhabited by artificial ghosts was the most unbearable of nightmares,- to be in love with one of those images was worse than being in love with a ghost (perhaps we always want the person we love to have the existenceof a ghost).

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Independence, like honor, is a rocky island, without a beach.

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That island of England breeds very valiant creatures; their mastiffs are of unmatchable courage.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Islands Quotes , England Quotes

Each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Islands Quotes

The people of the Falkland Islands, like the people of the United Kingdom, are an island race. They are few in number but they have the right to live in peace, to choose their own way of life and to determine their own allegiance. They way of life is British; their allegiance is to the Crown. It is the wish of the British people and the duty of Her Majesty's Government to do everything that we can to uphold that right. That will be our hope and our endeavour, and, I believe, the resolve, of every Member of this House.

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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Believe Quotes , Islands Quotes

Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Islands Quotes , Stories Quotes

Every man needs to find a peak, a mountain top or a remote island of his own choosing that he reaches under his own power alone in his own good time.

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Tags : Alain Gerbault Quotes , Men Quotes , Islands Quotes

Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery.

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