Quotes & Sayings About The Fire In Lord Of The Flies With Page Numbers

It is not our diversity which divides us; it is not our ethnicity, or religion or culture that divides us. Since we have achieved our freedom, there can only be one division amongst us: between those who cherish democracy and those who do not. — Nelson Mandela

Suicide gets in the air sometimes. Like a cold germ. — Stephen King

It is a curious fact, but one which all experience owns, that people do not desire so much to appear better, as to appear different from what they really are. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I wondered
not for the first time
whether one was ever justified in neglecting the welfare of one's own family in order to fight for the welfare of others. Can there be anything more important than looking after one's aging mother? Is politics merely a pretext for shirking one's responsibilities, an excuse for not being able to provide in the way one wanted? — Nelson Mandela

Ahimsa is not mere negative non-injury. It is positive, cosmic love. It is the development of a mental attitude in which hatred is replaced by love. Ahimsa is true sacrifice. Ahimsa is forgiveness. Ahimsa is Sakti (power). Ahimsa is true strength. — Sivananda

Because he's better than that. Better than they are. He's young, he's good-looking, charming, efficient, smart, and skilled enough to come up with, or get someone else to come up with this e-virus that's got all you geeks stumped."
"We're not stumped," Roarke corrected with some annoyance as they rode to the bedroom. "The bleeding investigation is ongoing and we're pursuing all shagging avenues."
While it amused her to hear him quote the usual departmental line - with the addition of the Irish - she shrugged. — J.D. Robb

When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly to start by assuming that it is impossible. Taking any assumptions into study is bad science. — Lewis N. Roe

I tell you, we're going to be busy for a minute. — Neil Armstrong

Hate pollutes the mind. — William Shakespeare

Devour your fear. — Simon Holt

The guns seemed honest. The guns seemed to address this country, which invented the streets that secured them with despotic police, in its primary language - violence. And I compared the Panthers to the heroes given to me by the schools, men and women who struck me as ridiculous and contrary to everything I knew. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

There is now, in my mouth, this sharp chain. And it never comes out. — Peter Shaffer

My work has often been described as "chick lit" and for the most part the term doesn't bother me. I think it simply signals to readers that the book is about women, written for women (although many men enjoy my books), about issues that concern women (relationships, careers, etc.) The only thing that bothers me is when the label is used disparagingly, to imply that all chick lit is, by definition, superficial, beach-read fluff because I believe that this is akin to saying that all women are devoid of substance and the issues that concern us, are fundamentally trivial ones. And I take issue with that. — Emily Giffin

But people underestimate just how starved everybody is for some magic pathway back into childhood. — John Darnielle

Conversations in the flesh are the first drafts toward the later conversations of the mind, where words and ideas are sorted and elaborated, recast. — Keith Miller