To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in.
Back when I was 16, when I should have been doing normal high school things, I availed myself of my brand new driver's license to spend as much time as possible in Milwaukee's Renaissance Book Shop, a tumbledown five-story warehouse that the city was finally able to close down in 2011 for safety reasons. It was my teenage paradise.
Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there's music in the air there.
We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.
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 an earthly paradise for people.
I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
Adam was placed in Paradise in perfect estate, and in the company of God's angels; God walked and did talk with him. He heard the voice, and beheld the presence of God.
When people come to Jamaica, we don't want them to think about the problems of Jamaica. So let them come be in their paradise.
As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.
It is in games that many men discover their paradise.
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
Vampires are sexy to a woman perhaps because the fantasy is similar to that of the man on the white horse sweeping her off to paradise.
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 a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.
I always loved fish for the colors and birds for the plumage. In the same way, I loved those women of the cabaret. They were birds of paradise.
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
To escape and sit quietly on the beach - that's my idea of paradise.
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.
Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
I've fallen in love with Waikiki; the beach, the climate, the people, and the hotel - it really is a paradise.
Hell is where everyone is doing his own thing. Paradise is where everyone is doing God's thing.
No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created for us.
Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?
I can really write what I want. I can take time; I can do nothing for a year. That is paradise.
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
I was a good college kid, all-American and baseball-playing, living in the dorms with a million barbarians. I did not expect to be claimed by Fitzgerald hook, line, and sinker. 'This Side of Paradise' - that sweet, sophomoric pastiche of notes, scenes, poetry, and plays - I felt like he'd written the book just for me.
The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible.
Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.
It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses.
When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.
The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'
St. Petersburg is a wonderful city. You have wonderful parks, birds singing in the trees, manatees in the water, pelicans. So it's like this little paradise on Earth.
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.