Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

When we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise.

Charles Godfrey Leland

To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in.

Charles Francis Richter

Remembrance is the only paradise out of which we cannot be driven away.

Michel Onfray

By aiming for paradise, we lose sight of earth. Hope of a beyond and aspiration to an afterlife engender a sense of futility in the present. If the prospect of getting taken up to paradise generates joy, it is the mindless joy of a baby picked up from his crib.

Camille Claudel

If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.

Caitlin Moran

You think it doesn't really matter if you screw up this time around because you can just sort it all out in paradise

Callan McAuliffe

I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.

Arthur Boyd

We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through.

Jane Hirshfield

There is no paradise, no place of true completion that does not include within its walls the unknown.

John Updike

America is beyond power; it acts as in a dream, as a face of God. Wherever America is, there is freedom, and wherever America is not, madness rules with chains, darkness strangles millions. Beneath her patient bombers, paradise is possible.

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

Byron Katie

This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.

David Hilbert

No one shall expel us from the paradise which Cantor has created for us. Expressing the importance of Cantor's set theory in the development of mathematics.

David Brin

It is a paradox of Life that all species breed past mere replacement. Any paradise of plenty soon fills to become paradise no more.

We absolutely love it. It's made the whole backyard a paradise in Mason.

Bob Dylan

If you don't believe there's a price for this sweet paradise, just remind me to show you the scars.

Boy George

The most significant New York club for me was Paradise Garage, where they played house music. This was around '84 or '85.

Bong Joon-ho

As a director, or just a film fan who wants to enjoy the festival, Cannes is the worst place to be. But it must be a paradise for distributors and importers.

Dionne Warwick

The music for me is paradise. I think it's where God lives.

Said Nursi

If you can visualize the whole of spring and see Paradise with the eye of belief, you may understand the utter majesty of everlasting Beauty. If you respond to that Beauty with the beauty of belief and worship, you will be a most beautiful creature.

John Milton

Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source / Of human offspring, sole propriety / In Paradise of all things common else.

What we have here is paradise compared to what we have in Mexico. We have everything we need.

Charles Schumer

Gun shows, simply put, have become a paradise for illegal firearms sales because felons frequent gun shows to avoid having to go through a background check.

Edward Fitzgerald

Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, / A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou / Beside me singing in the Wilderness- / And Wilderness is Paradise enow.

Rabindranath Tagore

I believe that there is an ideal hovering over the earth, an ideal of that Paradise which is not the mere outcome of imagination, but the ultimate reality towards which all things are moving. I believe that this vision of Paradise is to be seen in th

Surfers Paradise has a great atmosphere and the circuit is very challenging. It's incredible that we have gone 14 years without a two-time winner, but I guess that is testimony to how tough the place really is.

Ezra Pound

It is difficult to write a paradise when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse. It is obviously much easier to find inhabitants for an inferno or even a purgatorio.

Paradoxically, perhaps, there seems nothing enduring to be gained in terms of meaningful life change purely from leisure, from having a great time. If you or I could redesign the world we'd certainly do it very differently, so that every time we took a magic vacation at some tropical paradise we would return full of more wisdom than the World Encyclopedia of Philosophical Quotations. Until then, we are well advised to accept the reality that the great lessons in life usually come to us through some form of extreme hardship.

Hermann Hesse

Paradise is seldom recognized as such until it is considered from the outside.

Antonio Porchia

He who makes a paradise of his bread makes a hell of his hunger.

Brother Lawrence

It is possible for us to live in the very sense of the Lord's presence, under even the most difficult circumstances. If you and I are going to enjoy the peace of paradise during this life we must become accustomed to a familiar, humble, and very affectionate conversation with the Lord Jesus.

Golshifteh Farahani

For me, Iran was paradise, and I believe it's a paradise still, but only if you don't have political problems. If you have a political problem, paradise turns into hell.

Augustus Hare

To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.