Quotes of: Paradise Keyword

I don't have to worry about Madame Ouche! she'll still be robbing me blind when she's dead!...having made her last confession and received extreme unction...all the cataclysms will pass over her without harming a single gray hair on her head! it's a ...

Normance

We can act to deal with the consequences of the earthquake and tsunami, but the disaster was only faintly political in the economics and indifference...the relief will be very political, in who gives how much (Bush offering 15 million, then 35 millio...

Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics

Primary Epic is great, but not with the greatness of the later kind. In Homer, its greatness lies in the human and personal tragedy built up against this background of meaningless flux. It is all the more tragic because there hangs over the heroic wo...

A Preface to Paradise Lost

You may lose paradise, but gain heaven when you rise up and repent. The success that comes after a temporal failure is an amazing spectacular!

Daily Drive 365

I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost.

The Dogs of Riga

A book of verses underneath the bough A flask of wine, a loaf of bread and thou Beside me singing in the wilderness And wilderness is paradise now.

Edward Fitzgerald's The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Even knowing, as I do now, that grace, power, and, yes, love can hide the darkest elements of the human heart, I would do it all again.

Even in Paradise

The Holy Bible is the Spirit of God exposed to humanity in the Language of Heaven.

Face to Face Meetings With Jesus Christ 2: Preparing for God's Paradise

Each step you take from Jesus Christ, brings you closer to hell.

Face to Face Meetings With Jesus Christ 2: Preparing for God's Paradise

You look beautiful and tragic, just the way a heroine should on the eve of battle. Like Joan of Arc in her silver armor.

Gates of Paradise

In Malta, the Wars of Religion reached their climax. If both sides believed that they saw Paradise in the bright sky above them, they had a close and very intimate knowledge of Hell.

The Great Siege

...but which of us has read every line of the Iliad, or the Aeneid, or The Divine Comedy, or Paradise Lost? Only men of epic stomach can digest these epic tales.

The Age of Faith

Heaven and Earth are meeting in a storm that, when it's over, will leave the air purer and the leaves fertile, but before that happens, houses will be destroyed, centuries- old trees will topple, paradises will be flooded.

Aleph

wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.

All the Little Live Things

I have dreamed of our bed as if it were a shore where we would be washed up, not this striped mattress we must cover with sheets. [from "After an Absence"]

The Imperfect Paradise

To be the other woman is to be a season that is always about to end, when the air is flowered with jasmine and peach, and the weather day after day is flawless, and the forecast is hurricane.

The Imperfect Paradise

God, in his infinite wisdom, hid Hell in the middle of Paradise, to keep us on our toes.

By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

And the child smiled on the Giant, and said to him, 'You let me play once in your garden, to-day you shall come with me to my garden, which is Paradise.

The Selfish Giant

Walk with care in dark places, and do not put your faith in anyone who promises you the forgiveness of the Lord or a certain place in Paradise.

Mister B. Gone

She never knew when she trespassed and when she fell in love with Huzaf. Perhaps this is the beauty of love, it doesn't knock. It just creeps in slowly and steadily.

Mayhem In Paradise

You're stressing too much about what might be. Do something to take your mind off thinking about what might never happen.

Leaving Paradise