Islip Quotes & Sayings

The bible doesn't say Jesus had a power to command, only to recommend, which leaves each one of us with an individual freedom of choice. Maybe it's just that there are too many of us making too many bad choices for the good of the whole." He took a bite out of his apple. "Too many people and none of us wanting or able to hear the harmony. — Bryan Islip

Something about an inner value, about love; the love that shone from him as if from some kind of a beacon. — Bryan Islip

Someone said it better than that; be true unto yourself. Self, right? No-one else. If everyone was true unto his or her self there might even be a chance of something better for us all. — Bryan Islip

Life is the greatest blessed gift. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Their making of love ... had even been something like this, when it became a kind of harmony, enveloping them together and together and for ever into that crescendo. And, yes, now really, really she knew the multitudinous singing of the stars and she wanted everything to stay where it was, now and forever with him ... — Bryan Islip

For better or worse we're in an age of disbelief," Rico said, "An age of science and a need for proof. — Bryan Islip

We decide to start with the best-known sight of all, the one that, more than any other, exemplifies what the Big Apple is all about: the Islip Garbage Barge. — Dave Barry

And there was born that so mysterious thing that we call 'love' between man and woman; the thing that transcends, uplifts, indeed is the sole enoblement of our act of lust. — Bryan Islip

Good Christ, a Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die! — Philip Roth

Everything sings, the whole universe and all the other universes. It's in our genes, see, not just in our ears. — Bryan Islip

You may ask, "What do I do with my anger and hate?" Love them. At their heart, they are love designed to change or keep out what does not belong, and this can increase love. — Shepherd Hoodwin

We don't cease to be human when we choose to become health care professionals, yet our work demands that we operate at a machine-like rate, a machine with parts that never wear down. — Terri Moss

science feeds our perpetual curiousity and claims that nothing exists until 'proven'. Science cannot prove the existence or non-existence of the human soul any more than a thermometer can prove the colour red or King Henry the eight could discourse on electronics. — Bryan Islip

This is how early age people heard music, not through their ears above the cacophony of modern life but directly from the universe into their souls. — Bryan Islip

On the approach of spring, I withdraw without reluctance from the noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure. — Edward Gibbon