The House of Lords must go - not be reformed, not be replaced, not be reborn in some nominated life-after-death patronage paradise,… — Neil Kinnock Copy Share Image
No one can give anyone else the gift of the idyll; only an animal can do so, because only animals were not… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Growing up here in Hawaii, I loved swimming, surfing, and having fun in this paradise we are lucky to call home. But… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share Image
A great book is a homing device For navigating paradise. A good book somehow makes you care About the comfort of a… — J. Patrick Lewis Copy Share Image
We always imagine that there's got to be somewhere else better than where we are right now; this is the Great Somewhere… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, oh, it seems a long while ago now, I dreamed of a natural haven, of paradise winking down… — Carol Drinkwater 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
A worshipper perceives that he is near to God because he is awake all night worshipping God. But after worship, your prayers… — Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi Copy Share Image
If we assiduously cultivate our powers of exaggeration, perhaps we, too, shall obtain the Paradise of Liars. And there Raphael shall paint… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
“Kessler depicts his developing intimacy with a handful of dairy goats and offers an enviable glimpse of the pastoral good life. Yet… — Heather Paxson Copy Share Image
Set in the remote and harsh high desert landscape of Idaho, Outpost is an artist live/work studio and sculpture garden for making… — Tom Kundig Copy Share Image
Let us begin this letter, this prelude to an encounter, formally, as a declaration, in the old-fashioned way: I love you. You… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We have never… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“The odor of burning juniper is the sweetest fragrance on the face of the earth, in my honest judgment; I doubt if… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
In such novels as This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald depicts the spirit of the hour which is usually… — Richard Armour Copy Share Image
“Paradise is not a garden of bliss and changeless perfection where the lions lie down like lambs (what would they eat?) and… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Whether it is seen in personal terms or trans-personal terms, whether it is Heaven or Nirvana or Happy Hunting Ground or the… — John Smith Copy Share Image
We're in a freefall into future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast, and always when you're going… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The plough of Time breaks up our Eden-land, And tramples down its fruitful flowery prime. Yet thro' the dust of ages living… — Gerald Massey Copy Share Image
If a seperate personal Paradise exists for each of us mine must irreparably be planted with trees of words which the wind… — Odysseas Elytis Copy Share Image
I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant,… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
It is possible I never learned the names of birds in order to discover the bird of peace, the bird of paradise,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“This is a paradise of rising to the occasion that points out by contrast how the rest of the time most of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
My Faith is larger than the Hills— So when the Hills decay— My Faith must take the Purple Wheel To show the… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I don’t know [why we're here]. People sometimes say to me, ‘Why don’t you admit that the humming bird, the butterfly, the… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
“He didn't know if it was real, if freedom was something you could earn or win after a long, hard fight, or… — Mindee Arnett Copy Share Image
“Why doesn't the pope convert to Calvinism? Why doesn't the Dalai Lama, convert to Christianity, why doesn't Billy Graham convert to Islam,… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Growing up in a Jewish matriarchal world inside the patriarchal paradise of Salt Lake City, Utah, gave me increased perspective on gender… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
“When I am a good host, I can order the world precisely as I believe it ought to be. It is a… — Jesse Browner Copy Share Image
“The possibility of paradise hovers on the cusp of coming into being, so much so that it takes powerful forces to keep… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
May this marriage be blessed.May this marriage be as sweet as milk and honey.May this marriage be as intoxicating as old wine.May… — Rumi 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
If all stories are fiction, fiction can be true -- not in detail or fact, but in some transformed version of feeling.… — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
My friends on the mainland think just because I leave in Hawaii, I live in paradise, like a permanent vacation. We're all… — The Descendants Copy Share Image
There be delights that will fetch the day about from sun to sun and rock the tedious year as in a delightful… — J. D. Sedding Copy Share Image
Great art... is the result of the labours of thousands of faithful craftsmen who know that they are doomed to remain for… — Hendrik Willem van Loon Copy Share Image
It is at once by way of poetry and through poetry, as with music, that the soul glimpses splendors from beyond the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The problem is not that religious people are stupid. It's not that religious fundamentalists are stupid. I happen to think that you… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
It's a simplification to say that the men [during Stone Age] went to war to maintain their dominance over the women. The… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
![“I don’t know [why we're here]. People sometimes say to me, ‘Why don’t you admit that the humming bird, the butterfly, the Bird of Paradise are proof of the wonderful things produced by Creation?’ And I always say, well, when you say that, you’ve also got to think of a little boy sitting on a river…” quote by David Attenborough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/713/david-attenborough-2396_atheism_i-don-t-know-why-we-re-here-people-somet_1567364.jpg)
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