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islands
«I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.»
Author: Elizabeth II
| About:
Brotherhood,
Justice,
Law and lawyers,
Nations
| Keywords:
administer, brotherhood, devotion, islands
«In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.»
Author: J. Donald Walters
| About:
Earth
| Keywords:
an island, distances, in a sense, island, islands, planet Earth, situate, situated, situating
«I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.»
Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
| Keywords:
islands
«I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.»
«And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
Assyria, Cush, Hamath, islands, Islands of the, remnant, second time, Shinar
«Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.»
«And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.»
«INCUBUS, n. One of a race of highly improper demons who, though probably not wholly extinct, may be said to have seen their best nights. For a complete account of _incubi_ and _succubi_, including _incubae_ and _succubae_, see the _Liber Demonorum_ of Protassus (Paris, 1328), which contains much curious information that would be out of place in a dictionary intended as a text-book for the public schools. Victor Hugo relates that in the Channel Islands Satan himself --tempted more than elsewhere by the beauty of the women, doubtless --sometimes plays at _incubus_, greatly to the inconvenience and alarm of the good dames who wish to be loyal to their marriage vows, generally speaking. A certain lady applied to the parish priest to learn how they might, in the dark, distinguish the hardy intruder from their husbands. The holy man said they must feel his brown for horns; but Hugo is ungallant enough to hint a doubt of the efficacy of the test.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
alarm, applied, channel, dames, demons, dictionary, distinguish, doubtless, elsewhere, extinct, Hardy, hint, holy book, holy man, Holy Places, horns, Hugo, improper, incubi, incubus, intruder, islands, loyal, night school, out of place, parish, parish priest, tempted, text, The Victor, The Victors, ungallant, victor, Victor Hugo, Vows
«Centuries ago, sailors on long voyages used to leave a pair of pigs on every deserted island. Or they'd leave a pair of goats. Either way, on any future visit, the island would be a source of meat. These islands, they were pristine. These were home to breeds of birds with no natural predators. Breeds of birds that lived nowhere else on earth. The plants there, without enemies they evolved without thorns or poisons. Without predators and enemies, these islands, they were paradise. The sailors, the next time they visited these islands, the only things still there would be herds of goats or pigs. .... Does this remind you of anything? Maybe the ol' Adam and Eve story? .... You ever wonder when God's coming back with a lot of barbecue sauce?»
Author: Chuck Palahniuk
(Journalist, Novelist, Satirist)
| Keywords:
Adam, Adam and Eve, Adam the, ago, Back to Earth, barbecue, barbecued, barbecue sauce, birds, bird of paradise, breeds, centuries, coming back, deserted, Desert Island, Eve, evolved, evolves, evolving, goats, herds, island, islands, Long Island, meat, meats, nowhere, pair, paired, paradise, pigs, plants, poisons, pristine, remind, sailors, sauce, sauces, the island, thorns, visit, visited, voyages