You deal with mythological stuff for a few years, you learn that paradises are usually places where you get killed. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
My Paradise: With Christ. Not sinning. No pain. New earth. Precious in that order. — John Piper Copy Share Image
In about 1975-76, I lived with a woman in a little hut with some fruit trees, and I had some of the… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
What worries some people about consumption (and I confess at the outset to be one of these ambivalent creatures, fat but troubled… — Rodney Clapp Copy Share Image
Remain tranquil and prepare to bear still greater trials. All is not lost even though you be troubled oftener or tempted more… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
I always loved fish for the colors and birds for the plumage. In the same way, I loved those women of the… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
John Milton famously claimed, "Fame is the spur" for the poet, and indeed when we consider the six years he spent writing… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I grew up in Marin County north of San Francisco, and in the 1950s and '60s it was a natural paradise. — Huey Lewis Copy Share Image
Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
Remembrance is the only paradise out of which we cannot be driven away. — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken paradises are the only kind worth reading. — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
“Paradise,’ he began, and the p meant a spray. ‘The old legend about Paradise—that was about us, about right now. Yes! Just… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
A Marxist begins with his prime truth that all evils are caused by the exploitation of the proletariat by the capitalists. From… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
How soon are we broken on the soft pillow of ease! Adam in paradise was overcome, when Job on the dunghill was… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“A glimpse of my feathers. Show too much and they’ll tear you apart Bird of Paradise Born in the trenches Facing the… — Emily Bird Copy Share Image
I am against the idea of the end, that everything culminates in paradise or judgment. — Anselm Kiefer Copy Share Image
The whole world has risen in Christ... If God is 'all in all,' then everything is in fact paradise, because it is… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Don't create unbelief or doubt in people's minds. When you do so you ruin their lives and you have nothing to give… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
But love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Vividly imagined, beautifully written, at times almost unbearably suspenseful-the stories in Kristiana Kahakauwila's debut collection, This Is Paradise, are boldly inventive in… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
