Quotes & Sayings About Dystopia In Lord Of The Flies

[Al-Qaeda's supporters] are aware of the cracks in the Western financial system as they are aware of the lines in their own hands — Osama Bin Laden

No matter what you're feeling, the only way to get a difficult feeling to go away is simply to love yourself for it. If you think you're stupid, then love yourself for feeling that way. It's a paradox, but it works. To heal, you must be the first one to shine the light of compassion on any areas within you that you feel are unacceptable. — Christiane Northrup

Life is beautiful, and terrible, and strange. — Johnette Napolitano

You know, I'm an old man, and there's always parts for old bald guys. — Michael Hogan

Now, an hour later, Ethan stood at a window, gazing at the rain, like threads of seed pearls, accessorizing the hills of Bel Air.
Watching weather clarified his thinking.
Sometimes only nature felt real, while all human monuments and actions seemed to be the settings and the plots of dreams. — Dean Koontz

The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever tackled it in a direct way. And when, under pressure of circumstances, they have risked a direct attack, the result has commonly been to blot their record with a failure. — B.H. Liddell Hart

The public highways, which had been constructed for the use of the legions, opened an easy passage for the Christians missionaries from Damascus to Corinth, and from Italy to the extremity of Spain or Britain; nor did those spiritual conquerors encounter any of the obstacles which usually retard or prevent the introduction of a foreign religion into a distant country. — Edward Gibbon

There's only one difference between Jews and Catholics. Jews are born with guilt, and Catholics have to go to school to learn it. — Elayne Boosler

A person can carry his own persecutor, his own prison, about with him, Monseigneur. He can - as you know - die of thirst even when he has the clearest water within his reach. To be free ... not to be free ... it is all relative. No one has to drag along more ballast than he wants to and he who allows himself to be bound is a fool. The biggest fools are those who wear shackles of cobwebs and believe themselves to be helpless. — Hella S. Haasse

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. — Adam Smith

When are you going to stop looking at all the reasons you shouldn't be together and start focusing on the reasons you should be? — Nicole Williams

As always throughout history, she thought, there are no real victors in conquests; they are merely the planners for more conflict in the future. The — Barbara H. Martin

Prayer will never descend to the level where it is nothing more than a retreat house in which we find strength for ourselves, — D. A. Carson