Lord Of The Flies Island Paradise Quotes & Sayings

God bless the book people for their boundless knowledge absorbed from having words instead of friends. — Mackenzi Lee

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Veronica solves little puzzles because she, like all of us, cannot unravel the bigger ones. — Joss Whedon

He realized how easy it was to present an appearance of orthodoxy while having no grasp whatever of what orthodoxy meant. In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding, they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm because it left no residue behind. — George Orwell

He is not actually far from each one of us, for 'in him we live and move and have our being'" (Acts 17:25, 27-28). — Gene Edward Veith Jr.

The Russians are extreme people: they are generous but crazy at the same time. They always have something to say, and I really like that. — Carine Roitfeld

It doesn't count if it's from friends, right? — Svetlana Chmakova

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it. — Elbert Hubbard

Of course, this has its good side as well as its bad one. As we become permanent drunkards by so may separate drinks, so we become saints in the moral, and authorities and experts in the practical and scientific spheres, by so many separate acts and hours of work. Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he may safely leave the final result to itself. — William James

It doesn't matter; even if you do tend to wear the same things all the time, it's how you wear them and your attitude that counts. — Kate Moss

The river was mild and leisurely, going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for supper. — Ray Bradbury