Quotes with paradise

  • We, who have already borne on the road to Paradise the lives of the best among us, want a difficult, erect, implacable Paradise; a Paradise where one can never rest and which has, beside the threshold of the gates, angels with swords.

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  • A.R. Orage Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest.
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Lord George Byron All are inclined to believe what they covet, from a lottery-ticket up to a passport to Paradise.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Phillips Brooks Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • Barbara Walters But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Adolf Hitler By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Thomas Traherne Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • Richard Henry Stoddard Children are the keys of paradise.
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  • Robert M. Lindner Conformity, humility, acceptance... with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise.
    Robert M. Lindner
    American author and psychologist (1914 - 1956)
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  • Milan Kundera Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Robert Burton England is paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women.
    Robert Burton
    English clergyman and writer (1577 - 1640)
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  • Bruno Mars Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there's music in the air there.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Bruno Mars I can't even speak Hawaiian, but if you go there and listen to a Hawaiian song, you get captured because it's so beautiful, like the melody is just gorgeous and you know Bob Marley is on the radio every single day. It's very reggae-influenced down there. Basically, you haven't been to paradise if you haven't been to Hawaii.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Jorge Luis Borges I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    Jorge Luis Borges
    Argentijns writer (1899 - 1986)
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  • Jean Rostand I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Bonnie Bedelia If I spoke Italian, I'd be in Italy in a minute. I love the food, I love the way people live there. I mean, it really is my idea of paradise.
    Bonnie Bedelia
    American actress (1948 - )
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  • Nikita Khrushchev If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
    Nikita Khrushchev
    Soviet statesman (1894 - 1971)
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  • Bertrand Russell If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Evelyn Waugh It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
    Evelyn Waugh
    British novelist (1903 - 1966)
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