Paradise Quotes

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No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies. — Dean Acheson
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return. — Wystan Hugh Auden
He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise. — Abu Bakr
He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him. — Abu Bakr
Growing up in a Jewish matriarchal world inside the patriarchal paradise of Salt Lake City, Utah, gave me increased perspective on gender issues, as it… — Roseanne Barr
Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise, so also we… — Saint Basil
The Gulf Coast has the potential to create a culinary raw ingredient paradise that smart cooks can capitalize on. — Mario Batali
Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may… — Jean Baudrillard
There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo. — Erma Bombeck
Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed… — Daniel Boone
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. — Jorge Luis Borges
The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build… — Alvar Aalto
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… — Amos Bronson Alcott
When you arrive in England for football it's a paradise. — Eric Cantona
A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb. — Emile M. Cioran
In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws. — Emile M. Cioran
Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. — Paulo Coelho
O God! if I worship Thee in fear of Hell, burn me in Hell; and if I worship Thee in hope of Paradise, exclude me… — Rabia Basri
Hold on to the center and make up your mind to rejoice in this paradise called life. — Laozi
The best and sweetest flowers of paradise God gives to His people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is the gate of heaven. — Thomas Brooks

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