Paradise Quotes - Page 33

• To read and write is a paradise.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Writing

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• Did you know that Allah promises you a seat in Paradise if you kill a Christian?

  Quentin Crisp

  Christian, Promise, Knows

  Source: davidbenson.webs.com

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• The cultural products of America from this period [ fifties and sixties] are like a vision of paradise or something. I find it utterly intoxicating.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  America, Vision, Periods

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• Hany Abu-Assad was sitting next to me, and his film 'Paradise Now' had won the Golden Globe. He said to me at the Globes, 'Paradise now, talk to you later.' [laughs] I gave him a big hug for that.

  Gavin Hood

  Laughing, Hug, Sitting

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Like William Morris, Joe Hollis asks us to perceive paradise gardening as a juncture where artfulness directly serves life. In fact, we might go so far as to define this paradise as the place where art is indistinguishable from life, and where simplicity is codified as the best path for achieving happiness.

  Jim Nollman

  Life, Happiness, Art

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• Different influences at different times in my career, and some have stayed with me more, some less. Chester Himes. Ralph Dennis, who wrote a series called Hardman which is a big influence on the Hap and Leonard novels. Harlan Ellison, Philip Jose Farmer, Gerald Kersh, Fredrick Brown, Robert Bloch, and I'm just getting started. I read constantly. As for the epic Western, that's Paradise Sky.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Epic, Sky, Careers

  Source: thequietus.com

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• All would wish to be saved and to enjoy the glory of paradise; but to gain heaven, it is necessary to walk in the straight road that leads to eternal bliss. This road is the observance of the divine commandments. Hence, in his preaching, the Baptist exclaimed: Make straight the way of the Lord.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Heaven, Wish, Baptists

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• By suffering we are able to give something to God. The gift of pain, of suffering is a big thing and cannot be accomplished in Paradise.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Pain, Giving, Suffering

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• Life - it's not paradise, you do not have to be perfect.

  Gia Carangi

  Perfect

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• 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.

  Franz Kafka

  Two, Nonchalance, Return

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• The thing is, it has to do with heart - we have to understand what hearts are for before we can get back to heaven or paradise or the power in our minds.

  John Trudell

  Heart, Heaven, Mind

  John Trudell (2010). “Lines from a Mined Mind (Large Print 16pt)”, p.54, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Remain tranquil and prepare to bear still greater trials. All is not lost even though you be troubled oftener or tempted more grievously. You are a man, not God. You are flesh, not an angel. How can you possibly expect to remain always in the same state of virtue when the angels in heaven and the first man in paradise failed to do so? I am He who rescues the afflicted and brings to My divinity those who know their own weakness.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Angel, Men, Heaven

  Thomas (à Kempis), Thomas A. Kempis, Aloysius Croft, Harold Bolton (2003). “The Imitation of Christ”, p.110, Courier Corporation

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• What man of sense will agree with the statement that the first, second and third days, in which the evening and morning were named, were without sun, moon and stars? What man is found such an idiot as to suppose that God planted trees in Paradise, in Eden, Like a Husbandman?

  Origen

  Morning, Stars, Men

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• If it weren't for the people always getting tangled up with the machinery... Earth would be an engineer's paradise.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  People, Tangled, Would Be

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• In this life there is no purgatory; it is either hell or paradise; for to him who serves God truly, every trouble and infirmity turns into consolations, and through all kinds of trouble he has a paradise within himself even in this world: and he who does not serve God truly, and gives himself up to sensuality, has one hell in this world, and another in the next.

  Philip Neri

  Giving, Doe, World

  Saint Philip Neri, Faber, Frederick William Faber (1995). “If God be with Us: The Maxims of St. Philip Neri”, p.47, Gracewing Publishing

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• The real "opium of the people", distracting men's minds from their essential task, is the communist myth of an earthly paradise.

  Jean Danielou

  Real, Men, People

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• The thing that had fueled these utopian communities was a literal belief, and not just a general sense of optimism, that the earth was about to become a paradise. That idea cannot hold water after the war.

  Christine Jennings

  War, Ideas, Water

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The fatal flaw of most utopian visions is that they're fundamentally static, and that's not a comfortable place for humans to live. Fourier was very good at imagining a utopia that is constantly changing and very busy, but a vision of paradise that would have been most tantalizing to an underfed overworked factory worker in 1840 doesn't have much appeal in fiction because it's not a story.

  Christine Jennings

  Vision, Fiction, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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

  Dionne Warwick

  Thinking, God Life

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• I mean, 3-D adds a whole level of 'oh my goodness' to the movie in good ways and bad ways that you have to deal with. We've overcome any obstacle that we've ever had because we have a great 3-D crew, Max and the guys at Paradise 3-D.

  Todd Farmer

  Mean, Guy, Overcoming

  Source: collider.com

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• So after Another You I ran off to my very own piece of paradise, my home in Hana.

  Richard Pryor

  Home, Pieces, Ran

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

  Boy George

  New York, House, Clubs

  "Taboo". Interview with Mark Ronson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 19, 2008.

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• There is only one sin and it is: weakness. When I was a boy, I read Milton's Paradise Lost. The only good man I had any respect for was Satan. The only saint is that person who never weakens, faces everything, and determines die game.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Boys, Men, Games

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.434, Manonmani Publishers

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• Well, the moral of the story, The moral of this song, Is simply that one should never be Where one does not belong. So when you see your neighbor carryin' somethin', Help him with his load, And don't go mistaking Paradise For that home across the road.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Home, Doe

  Song: The Ballad Of Frankie Lee And Judas Priest, Album: John Wesley Harding

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• According to my religious belief, I'm sorry if you feel like I'm pushing this on you - my religious belief is that you behave the way God wants us to behave. And that's simply love God and love one another. If we did that, there would be no need for any of the other commandments. It would be great. But in the same vein, we would have obtained paradise by that point. And it's tougher to get to paradise by that point.

  Ralph Sarchie

  Religious, Sorry, And Love

  Source: collider.com

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