Lord Of The Flies Sparknotes Quotes & Sayings

Shit," I thought to myself, "I'm going to be late to New Testament class. — Nadia Bolz-Weber

Happiness is within everyone, but we are not able to experience it because of our ego's likes and dislikes. — Mata Amritanandamayi

War is a business in which a lot of people watch a few people get killed and are damn glad it wasn't them. — Herman Wouk

Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury — Joseph Conrad

You've got to pay the bills, and you want to get your foot in. The great shows usually aren't going to look for somebody completely untested, so you have to kind of get your feet wet doing other shows. — Mike Scully

Some changes are so slow, you don't notice them, others are so fast, they don't notice you. — Ashleigh Brilliant

Sometimes I fear that, if Harvard does not give up trying to turn itself from an Institution of Learning into an Educational Institution, we may have a generation of professors whose duty it will be to disseminate information which they have not the time to acquire. — Edwin Boring

They can't pooh-pooh me now, because of who I am. — Kary Mullis

I love the woods even more than the ocean. — Steven Tyler

But the knowledge isn't any good without the infrastructure. — M.R. Carey

The world cares little for principles. They care for persons. — Swami Vivekananda

Life's too short to spend time trying to explain the obvious to an idiot. — Gloria Naylor

Difficulties are inevitable," I said. "Major projects require persistence. — Graeme Simsion

The mysteries of a universe made of drops of fire and clods of mud do not concern us in the least. The fate of humanity condemned ultimately to perish from cold is not worth troubling about. If you take it to heart it becomes an unendurable tragedy. If you believe in improvement you must weep, for the attained perfection must end in cold, darkness and silence. In a dispassionate view the ardour for reform, improvement for virtue, and knowledge, and even for beauty is only a vain sticking up for appearances as though one were anxious about the cut of one's clothes in a community of blind men. — Joseph Conrad