Paradise Quotations | Page 2

A chaste generation would restore Paradise.

I don't know if paradise or hell exist, but I'm sure hell is more groovy.

Since the nineteen-fifties, rural Florida has marketed itself to Northerners and Midwesterners as an unexplored paradise of citrus and mermaids.

It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through inferno. - Bertrand Zobrist

We're on a road to nowhere, come on inside. Takin' that ride to nowhere, we'll take that ride. I'm feelin' okay this mornin', and you know, we're on the road to paradise, here we go, here we go.

i have to cross the river of extreme awkwardness in order to get to the paradise on the other side.

Move to California. Malibu is paradise.

Paradise is too perfect for humanity.

Stories of a mythical angel paradise called an Angelopolis are like Peter Pan's Never Never Land.

The UN wasn't created to take mankind into paradise, but rather, to save humanity from hell.

The path to paradise begins in hell.

Paradise is only for those who have already been there.

You deal with mythological stuff for a few years, you learn that paradises are usually places where you get killed.

Create a paradise anywhere you go.

With only two candidates, it's going to give voters an opportunity to very closely examine the track record of service to the town of Paradise Valley of the two candidates.

Two Paradises t'were in one, to live in Paradise alone.

We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.

Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it.

Besides jobsite signs, we do no marketing. We mainly focus on the higher-end areas of Scottsdale and Paradise Valley.

Did I like reading Paradise Lost ? No. Did I get a great deal from it? Yes.

A note went home last week letting parents know of a possible sighting of a guy who recently exposed himself to students two weeks ago. He was recently seen in the Paradise Skies neighborhood near a bus stop.

England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the diverb goes

I've lived in Paradise Valley for 37 years. Any charitable thing that you're involved in is a great feeling, especially because it's home.

The myths have always condemned those who ''looked back.'' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.

The old, sad art colors are gone. Now I paint bright colors. I paint paintings which are happy, where children are laughing and playing with animals. I paint paradise on Earth. I still paint sadness sometimes, but there is sadness in the world, too.

Do you think that you will enter paradise without Allah judging those among you who fought hard in his cause, and remained steadfast?

A woman who has no insurance or doctor could come in and get tested and walk out with insurance and with a doctor for prenatal care. About 50 women a month sign up to have their babies at Paradise Valley Hospital, just from that program.

They paved paradise And put up a parking lot, With a pink hotel, A boutique, and a swinging hot spot.

Indian River oranges and Ruskin tomatoes, as much as the beach and the postcard, helped shape Florida's image as a winter paradise and bountiful dream state.

California is a garden of Eden, a paradise to live in or see, But believe it or not, you won't find it so hot If you ain't got the do re mi

Autumn truly is what summer pretends to be: the best of all seasons. It is as glorious as summer is tedious; as subtle as summer is obvious; as refreshing as summer is wearying. Autumn seems like paradise.

HOURI, n. A comely female inhabiting the Mohammedan Paradise to make things cheery for the good Mussulman, whose belief in her existence marks a noble discontent with his earthly spouse, whom he denies a soul. By that good lady the Houris are said to be held in deficient esteem.

She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.

So he left the lagoon and entered the jungle again, within a few days was completely lost, following the lagoons southward through the increasing rain and heat, attacked by alligators and giant bats, a second Adam searching for the forgotten paradises of the reborn Sun.

But 'twas beyond a mortal's share / To wander solitary there: / Two paradises 'twere in one, / To live in paradise alone.

He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.

There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.

We were created in order to live in Paradise, and Paradise was ordained to serve us. What was ordained for us has been changed; it is not said that this has also happened with what was ordained for Paradise.

Why do we complain about the Fall? It is not on its account that we were expelled from Paradise, but on account of the Tree of Life, lest we might eat of it.

If what was supposed to have been destroyed in Paradise was destructible, then it was not decisive; but if it was indestructible, then we are living in a false belief.

There are two cardinal human sins out of which all others derive, deviate, and dissipate: impatience and lassitude (or perhaps nonchalance). On account of impatience they are driven out of paradise; on account of lassitude or nonchalance they do not return. Perhaps, however, only one main sense of sin is given: impatience. On account of impatience they are driven out, on account of impatience they do not turn back.

Because of impatience we were driven out [of Paradise]; because of impatience we cannot return.

Expulsion from Paradise is in its main aspect eternal: that is to say, although expulsion from Paradise is final, and life in theworld unavoidable, the eternity of the process (or, expressed in temporal terms, the eternal repetition of the process) nevertheless makes it possible not only that we might remain in Paradise permanently, but that we may in fact be there permanently, no matter whether we know it here or not.

In Paradise, as always: that which causes the sin and that which recognizes it for what it is are one. The clear conscience is Evil, which is so entirely victorious that it does not any longer consider the leap from left to right necessary.

We were expelled from Paradise, but it was not destroyed. The expulsion from Paradise was in one sense a piece of good fortune, for if we had not been expelled, Paradise would have had to be destroyed.

Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent.

The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but the eternal nature of the process has the effect that not only could we remain forever in Paradise, but that we are currently there, whether we know it or not.

Delhi is definitely a foodie's paradise.

I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost.

Both looked back then on the wild revelry...and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude.

He that will enter into Paradise, must have a good key.

Well, it's not far down to paradise, at least it's not for me And if the wind is right you can sail away and find tranquility...

The loves that meet in Paradise shall cast out fear, And Paradise hath room for you and me and all.

Like Adam, we have all lost Paradise; and yet we carry Paradise around inside of us in the form of a longing for, almost a memory of, a blessedness that is no more, or the dream of a blessedness that may someday be again.

Michael had once read to her how God had cast a man and woman out of paradise. Yet, for all their human faults and failures. God had shown them the way back in.

Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it.

We do not understand that life is paradise, for it suffices only to wish to understand it, and at once paradise will appear in front of us in its beauty.

It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.

I fell in love once, if love be that cruelty which takes us straight to the gates of Paradise only to remind us they are closed for ever.

Paradise is always where love dwells.

I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.

I have some state secrets I will take with me to paradise.

My landscapes are not only beautiful or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful'...

It is written, better to be a fool all your days than for one hour to be evil. You are not a fool. They are the fools. For he who causes his neighbor to feel shame loses Paradise himself.

There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God, And save them by the barrel-load. Some may perchance, with strange surprise, Have blundered into Paradise.

I don't want to underestimate the difficulty of this, because Colombia is paradise next to Afghanistan.

Sinatra’s idea of paradise is a place where there are plenty of women and no newspapermen. He doesn’t know it, but he’d be better off if it were the other way around.

Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.

Germany is now a field of cadavers, soon she will be a paradise.

God comes first. Paradise is not cheap.

The older I get, the more I appreciate my childhood. It was paradise.

Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.

An inherent sense of man makes him long for an eternal paradise.

I mean only that I hope they find darkness or paradise without fear of it, if they can.

The space of the bow of any one of you in Paradise is better than all that the sun rises upon.

If anyone travels on a road in search of knowledge, Allah will cause him to travel on one of the roads of Paradise.

Do good deeds properly, sincerely and moderately and know that your deeds will not make you enter Paradise, and that the most beloved deed to Allah's is the most regular and constant even though it were little.

In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys.

Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.

A fantasy can be equivalent to a paradise and if the fantasy passes, better yet, because eternal paradise would be very boring.

You gave me back the paradise That I thought I lost for good You helped me find the reasons why It took me by surprise that you understood You knew all along What I never wanted to say Until I learned to love myself I was never ever lovin' anybody else.

There's only one of us here: What we give to others, we give to ourselves. What we withhold from others, we withhold from ourselves. In any moment, when we choose fear instead of love, we deny ourselves the experience of Paradise.

Drugs bring us to to the gates of paradise, then keep us from entering.

No need to be sentimental to mourn the loss of Paradise.

Paradise endangered: garden snakes and mice are appearing in the shadowy corners of Dutch Old Master paintings.

It's only a wonderful world if you can make it that way. There are no street signs pointing to Paradise Road.

Formula 1 would be a paradise without the media.

We have to change this whole earth into a tremendous festival, and it is possible because man brings all that is needed to transform this earth into a paradise.

Paradise is not somewhere else... it is within you. And it is not in some other time, after death... It is in you right now.

Paradise is within you, in your state of no-mind. And hell is also within you, in your very mind.

This moment! - this here-now - is forgotten when you start thinking in terms of achieving something. When the achieving mind arises, you lose contact with the paradise you are in.

Whatever life after death is, being with Christ which is far better, being in Paradise like the thief, etc, the many rooms where we go immediately... that is the temporary place. The ultimate life after life after death is the resurrection in God's new world.

To love and live beloved is the soul's paradise.

I'm a man. I lived it and I'm not afraid to die but when I die I'm going to paradise and I'm not worried.

The House of Lords must go - not be reformed, not be replaced, not be reborn in some nominated life-after-death patronage paradise, just closed down, abolished, finished.

There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't.

Paradise will not be a hall of mirrors, it will be a display of majesty, and it won't be ours

Cheese for dessert is rather like Paradise Lost in that everyone thinks he ought to like it, but still you don't notice too many people actually curling up with it.

I've been to paradise. But I've never been to me.

You cannot avoid paradise. You can only avoid seeking it.