MIND in Classic Quotes

1  "I don't mind going," said Jack hotly.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER SEVEN Shadows and Tall Trees

2  This was the voice of one who knew his own mind.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell

3  You have doctors for everything, even the inside of your mind.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FIVE Beast from Water

4  At the back of his mind formed the uncertain outlines of an excuse.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair

5  He started up, then changed his mind and sat down again while the air rang.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell

6  A picture of three boys walking along the bright beach flitted through his mind.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FIVE Beast from Water

7  Those littluns who had climbed back on the twister fell off again and did not mind.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FIVE Beast from Water

8  Something flittered there in front of his mind like a bat's wing, obscuring his idea.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER SIX Beast from Air

9  His mind skated to a consideration of a tamed town where savagery could not set foot.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TEN The Shell and the Glasses

10  The blood roared again in Ralph's ears, confused images chased each other through his mind.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TEN The Shell and the Glasses

11  Then as though they had but one terrified mind between them they scrambled away over the rocks and fled.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER SIX Beast from Air

12  He was searching his mind for simple words so that even the littluns would understand what the assembly was about.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FIVE Beast from Water

13  He discovered with a little fall of the heart that these were the conditions he took as normal now and that he did not mind.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER SEVEN Shadows and Tall Trees

14  He took off his glasses and made as if to put down the conch; but the sudden motion toward it of most of the older boys changed his mind.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TWO Fire on the Mountain

15  With a convulsion of the mind, Ralph discovered dirt and decay, understood how much he disliked perpetually flicking the tangled hair out of his eyes, and at last, when the sun was gone, rolling noisily to rest among dry leaves.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FIVE Beast from Water

16  If you could shut your ears to the slow suck down of the sea and boil of the return, if you could forget how dun and unvisited were the ferny coverts on either side, then there was a chance that you might put the beast out of mind and dream for a while.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER SEVEN Shadows and Tall Trees

17  His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair