Lord Of The Flies Chapter 11-12 Quotes & Sayings

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness. — Baltasar Gracian

Communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that. In consequence I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men. Most of the confidences were unsought - frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile — F Scott Fitzgerald

A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone. — Denis Diderot

There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, you lose something. — Kenny Rogers

Leadership is not achieved by an individual. Leadership is bestowed by the group. — Simon Sinek

Dear molly,
Watching over Fred like you have been watching over my Harry all these years.
Love,
Lily — J.K. Rowling

When I don't have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. I'll do something else. — Danger Mouse

You are so lame. You always disappoint me. It's kind of like our running joke but it's really not funny and I just want you to live up to the image of you I create. — Ani DiFranco

I believe there is a great deal too much mutual confession going on today, as if sharing one's problems somehow makes them go away. All it really does, of course, is increase the number of people who have to worry about a particular issue. — Helen Simonson

The old water heater in my dressing room was working, but it was kind of tired. It gave off about as much warmth as an agent's handshake. — Bob Hope

I'm glad I'm not a politician. — Chris O'Donnell

As Brother Francis readily admitted, his mastery of pre-Deluge English was far from masterful yet. The way nouns could sometimes modify other nouns in that tongue had always been one of his weak points. In Latin, as in most simple dialects of the region, a construction like servus puer meant about the same thing as puer servus, and even in English slave boy meant boy slave. But there the similarity ended. He had finally learned that house cat did not mean cat house, and that a dative of purpose or possession, as in mihi amicus, was somehow conveyed by dog food or sentry box even without inflection. But what of a triple appositive like fallout survival shelter? Brother Francis shook his head. The Warning on Inner Hatch mentioned food, water, and air; and yet surely these were not necessities for the fiends of Hell. At times, the novice found pre-Deluge English more perplexing than either Intermediate Angelology or Saint Leslie's theological calculus. — Walter M. Miller Jr.