Quotes & Sayings About Mood In Lord Of The Flies

Free will is an idealization of human beings that makes the ethics game playable. Euclidean geometry requires idealizations like infinite straight lines and perfect circles, and its deductions are sound and useful even though the world does not really have infinite straight lines or perfect circles. The world is close enough to the idealization that the theorems can usefully be applied. Similarly, ethical theory requires idealizations like free, sentient, rational, equivalent agents whose behavior is uncaused, and its conclusions can be sound and useful even though the world, as seen by science, does not really have uncaused events. As long as there is no outright coercion or gross malfunction of reasoning, the world is close enough to the idealization of free will that moral theory can meaningfully be applied to it. — Steven Pinker

Together they read the message. COVER YOUR BUTT. BERNARD IS WATCHING. - GOD Bernard went red with anger. "Who did this!" he shouted. "God," said Shen. — Orson Scott Card

If were a shower
I could saturate your hair
Work my way over your lips
Across your shoulders
Around your waist
Through your knees
To the tips of your toes
And back again
Warm wet salty
Sweet — Nikki Giovanni

Everyone lies, and there are no consequences. It's like a magical fairyland! — Katie Alender

There was a loud cough from the man on the stand. I replaced My Magic Mirror carefully on his tray, gave him a cheesy smile, and went my way. — Jonathan Stroud

I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income. — Jack Steinberger

Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself. — Michael Korda

Even if only one person's respect for animals increases, then writing Talon would have been worthwhile. — Christopher Gerard

You think our mam likes you better than me?" challenged whichever one was the other. (Don't blame me. I've lost track too.) — John Flanagan

Even if we change practices or behaviors, we are seeking transformed hearts. We must know in our bones God's heart for equality and wholeness in the Body of Christ then live our lives out of that truth, with invitation and joy, as living prophets of God's way of life. — Sarah Bessey

If I can mean to people - if I can symbolize the ability to pursue gender equality, racial equality, and to be truthful about our experiences, then, absolutely, that's what I want to be. — Anita Hill

Time and place elide ... — Martin Langfield

Not a lot of people can say they are in a job they love to do. I am very fortunate to be able to do that and I thank everyone around me every day for the fact that I am able to do it. — Joe Bowen

Two characters and sexy banter do not a book make, damn it. — Sherry Thomas

I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately. — Sam Shepard