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Don't allow yourself to get into a condition where you are not able to defend yourself. This is not a safe world. You are not safe in an Internet chat room and you are not safe on an exotic island with your friends.

Beth Twitty

I see a much stronger case for Grand Island. But, all of us here are kind of playing God without any context.

Andrew Rudnick

For the most part, most of the people on this island do not demand too much of government, but when an emergency happens, they expect government to respond.

Harry Kim

An Englishman is a man who lives on and island in the North Sea governed by Scotsmen.

Philip Guedalla

Hans Island is Canadian.

Maple Leaf

People [will] understand this is not an island that no one takes care of.

Patrick Lawrence

This is a fun way to make it open to the community, by having outer island student representatives on the commission.

Lois Hamaguchi

My feelings are not about personalities. It's the institution itself. Whether it is a viable institution for this Island anymore is the issue to me.

Tristan Israel

That would be the end of Long Island.

Mike Wyllie

We are not an island. Botswana should use all the available regional interventions to articulate this daunting problem.

Bernard Balikani

We're in a beautiful area, we're on an island. Guys can go 25 feet from their rooms and catch supper. A guy can come here, get a good education and play for an up-and-coming program.

Ronnie Arrow

They are changing the island forever.

Richard Bailey

We are doing a phenomenal job with their brands, and our plan is to be a long-term Goose Island distributor.

Bob Collins

Oh I am gonna buy an island I am gonna buy an airplane. In reality, gee, not a fan of flying, and I do not really like water.

Michael Terpstra

I am a daily reader of the Centre Daily Times online every day from the beautiful island of Maui.

Ann Wilson

I remember when you could drive Galveston Island, from end to end, on the natural beach. I don't think there will ever be any hope of doing that again.

Lorraine Brown

I would ask you to envision this island not as it is but as it could be, as part of the greatest harbor district in the world.

Daniel Doctoroff

Daniel Island will be disposed of as the governor has asked us to do.

Bill Stern

We took it. We showed we have a tough group of guys on this island.

Scott Junk

Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island.

Gerry Adams

If I were to close the lot at Grass Island, they're just going to go to some side street and unload.

Joseph Siciliano

Every Haitian here is supporting 10 people back on the island, and that's 10 votes.

Quetel Osterval

Is going to take on a lot of water. But as far as the winds, I think here on the island, it will be a little bit less than they anticipated.

John Benson

It's a remote island with very little access, so it has been little studied over the years.

Haraldur Sigurdsson

The question here is whether the County Commission intended for Pine Island to be treated differently.

Mary Gibbs

We're all island people, we enjoy one another's company, but don't invade us.

John Noonan

Brings home $1.2 billion for Rhode Island transportation.

Sue Barker

Well, darn her anyway. I wonder why she left Baby Island off?

Roger Sherman

We didn't affect the quarterback. We brought pressure but we didn't get to him. That left people on an island.

Mark Dantonio

I think the respect we had for them (on the island) and the respect they had for us helped us quite a bit when that new contractor came in.

Justin Ramsey

I think it would be fun to think you could go from Pocatello through Idaho Falls; through Rexburg on up into Island Park and Driggs on a bike... safely.

Joseph West

I don't feel embraced. I feel like a survivor. I was almost like we were on a deserted island. But we survived.

John Carlos

Crude oil is a global market unlike natural gas. We are almost an island when it comes to gas, with most of our imports coming from Canada.

Neil Gamson

It's a lot less stressful to wait for the box office numbers for Red Eye than it is for The Island .

Jim Tharp

Today, we have three suspected cases of bird flu in the island of Reunion.

Xavier Bertrand

I've been telling people there are seven islands in Island County. And people were telling me, 'No, there's six.

Roger Sherman

And there was a beautiful view But nobody could see. Cause everybody on the island Was saying: Look at me! Look at me!

Laurie Anderson

It's sort of like Rhode Island has gone flat.

Glenworth Ramsay

They're crossing a line for financial gain, and it's our Island heritage that's being sold on the international commodities market.

Scott Buchanan

We hope to provide visitors to Sun Island with a completely new and unforgettable experience.

Jianguo Liu

Your husband was a hometown hero, ... And all the people identified with this island are hometown heroes for the good work they've been doing that will benefit everyone. This is what makes us one of the greatest areas in the country.

Sherwood Boehlert

Scottsdale as a city is no longer an island, and we have to address some of these transportation concerns.

Rick Kidder

It was a pretty good shake, but a little bit off the island.

Bruce Presgrave

Rhode Island and New York don't have clear definitions of marriage in their statutes or constitutions.

Dale Schowengerdt

The clothing is about sun protection and of course we have beer can island shorts.

Betsy Garrison

I found him to be a dear, sweet generous, loving man, ... Gilligan's Island.

Russell Johnson

It will be like 'Survivor.' We'll see which ones get voted off the island.

Hon Ip

Chandeleur Island pretty much was erased by Hurricane Ivan and it was starting to recover.

Gregory Stone

They've done the job and all of our Rhode Island Guard units have distinguished themselves time and time again.

Gov. Donald Carcieri

It's right across from Solomon's Island.

Linda White

Finding Martha's Vineyard: African Americans at Home on an Island.

Jill Nelson

This is not Florida. This is a fragile island that is creaking under the weight of people.

Cha Smith

Most of the people out here know about the storm of 1900, and what it did to the island.

Larry Chambers

It was special to have my first two-goal game in front of my family and on Long Island.

Christopher Higgins

Picnic Island is probably one of the most beautiful parks in the city. Why would we not want it as part of our boundaries?

Jill Buford

I'm higher than most places on this island, but Im not going to take a chance of a 150 mph wind blowing through here.

Pat Patterson

Well, The Island of Dr Moreau wasn't very good, was it? I remember the day Brando turned round to me and said this was the craziest thing he'd ever been involved in.

David Thewlis

The island is a scene of total devastation.

Geoff Mackley

Defense won the first game for us. In the second and third games against Grand Island Northwest, we had too many errors.

Christy Scott

Again, this is a fairly wide barrier island, ... It's in pretty good shape.

Gregory Stone

No man is an Island, intire of itselfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine...

John Donne

I am an Island boy so, I can relate to the warm weather!

Michael Kennedy

I fished Saturday and it was very good on the racetrack between Camano Head and Hat Island.

Gary Krein

I have never even heard of something that extreme in Grand Island, let alone right next door to my own house.

Danielle Sautter

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

John Archibald Wheeler

Last year we had extra officers on the island, but these things escalate very, very quickly.

Peter Harding

This is a very emotional issue on the island.

Tom Rothman

Change always ruffles feathers. But to us, nothing is sacred. This is going to be good for us, good for the island.

Andy Mckay

We would share the revenue with the Island since they are helping with the funding.

Joe Vega

Both the historic resource and wilderness character were slipping away from us. We had to figure out how to compromise our divergent perspectives without compromising Cumberland Island.

Don Barger

It's all about a really fun night of calypso and island tropical entertainment.

Verna Rutherford

Because we are on an island, we have to be creative about our curriculum.

Sheri Milburn

We are on a small island, and we have limited space. If the county asks us, we will help the businesses and the community with these needs.

Scott Kouchi

An island that is five, ten, or 20 acres, that's human-sized. Something you can walk around in an hour or two hours.

Cheyenne Morrison

The strength of Island is our technology.

Cameron Smith

They were a bit worried about it breaking again because Phillip Island is a fast track and it's quite dangerous to break there.

Anthony West

Because Ireland is an island, it can be a playground for spectrum.

Linda Doyle

'The Island' was a gigantic disappointment.

Adam Goodman

My love is at corner. I'm just happy to be back and be able to compete on that one-on-one island.

Justin Phinisee

The debate on Long Island has always been emotional.

Pascual Blanco

These guys get off the island.

Carlton Cuse

I would say it's probably the strongest storm to hit this island in 50 years.

Dave Mcginnis

We are literally an island in a sea of prairie dogs.

Jan Ngeden

I bet Rhode Island is getting very nervous.

Mike Carter

I got a call from a neighbor around 3 a.m. He said the island was ablaze. We came up and there it was.

Richard Cimochowski

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

Sir Winston Churchill

The entire island is upset right now. We are a small community. This thing has crushed the entire community.

Lloyd Edgecombe

Ellis Island is for the people who came over on ships. My people came in chains.

David N. Dinkins

We are losing our soul for this fool's gold called wealth. If we end up with just an industrialized island where you can't eat the food or breathe the air where will we be then?

Petra Bridgemohan

It's been here for many years. It's one of the great buildings of City Island.

Steve Lott

When you're in a foreign country or on an island or something, you've got to be aware of your surroundings.

Georgia Childs

You cannot blame porn, ... When I was young, I used to masturbate to Gilligan's Island.

Ron Jeremy

In Puerto Rico the grass is for the kings' horses. Obviously we don't have camels on the island.

Antonio Rodriguez

Creating 3,000 large-lot single family houses behind a gate is not going to improve things. That would be walling off the center of a very large geographic island.

Nat Roberts

In [the New England] region there are only five schools that are active. We're the first professional engineering fraternity in Rhode Island.

Filip Losowski

It's the 'Mansion on the Island' now. You didn't realize how big that hill was until the hill was gone.

John Mcneil

On this island, nobody stands above the law.

Nelson Oduber

Moving off island very shortly.

Gay Levine

If you stay on the island, you can almost pretend it didn't happen.

Margaret Jones

It's a wilderness island, there's places to go back there where you can't be seen by anyone.

Caleb Chung

Island Heights is committing to nothing. We're footing the bill and it won't cost them a dime. All Island Heights would be approving is a study so that the facts and necessary information could be made available to everyone.

David Meyer

Transfer of title has been completed, the Island corridor is now Island-owned and it's connecting communities.

Judith Sayers

The Big Island, as with other market expansions, has always lagged the market. We began to see the Big Island catch up in 2005, and we should continue this strengthening in 2006.

Joe Toy

He has reasonably good name recognition, certainly on this island.

Neal Milner

It gave the co-workers something to talk about and a chance to fantasize about buying an island or a plane.

Michael Terpstra

We are emphasizing, again, that no organization is an island.

Rick Cudworth

The island had low growing trees in its early history, and now they're coming back.

Barbara Atchison

You will see everything that's in there. What is in there will change everything about how they live on the island. We're erring on the side of giving away too much as opposed to being too vague.

Damon Lindelof

We've always had access to the area for the mullet run. This is the first time in the history of the island that the area has been closed this time of the year.

Steve Hissey

Poverty is alive and well in Rhode Island.

Henry Shelton

I'll ride it till the bitter end, and then I'll go back to commuting an hour and 45 minutes from Kingston to Bainbridge Island.

David Bruce

We have significant flooding around the island.

Bill Mauldin

I had that month on Long Island where I didn't play hardly at all. I think that's almost a blessing.

Wade Dubielewicz

I'm not going to back down, though. I'm pretty much going to be on him, on an island, by myself. I've just got to hold my own.

Duane Brown

It lays to rest, puts aside the argument . . . that the island shouldn't be conserved because it's an industrial wasteland.

Eric Stiles

We may be a small island, but we are not a small people.

Edward Heath

It was on Government Island, which is now Alameda, when they held the (1940) World's Fair.

Fred Nelson