Quotes:Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore
island, lost in the mists of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past.
View quotes by Margaret ThatcherThe truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted
island.
View quotes by Malcolm MuggeridgeThis
island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organising genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.
View quotes by Aneurin BevanNo man is an
Island, entire of it self; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of they friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. (Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions)
View quotes by John DonneI am about to write a very curious history, as the reader will agree with me when he has read this book. We have more than one narrative of people being cast away upon desolate
islands, and being left to their own resources, and no works are perhaps read with more interest; but I believe I am the first instance of a boy being left alone upon an uninhabited
island. Such was, however, the case; and now I shall tell my own story
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