Top 1200 Paradise Lost Book 2 Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.

I'm a massive comic book fan. I was buying weekly installments of "The Watchmen", and "From Hell", and "Parallax" and "Johnny Nemo". I was a huge comic book fan as a kid and I still am. Me and my youngest son are both comic book nerds together; make models and stuff.

The Bible is the Only Book That Can Make Us Wise unto Salvation. The Bible is not a book to be studied as we study geology and astronomy, merely to find out about the earth's formation and the structure of the universe; but it is a book revealing truth, designed to bring us into living union with God.

Memory is a paradise out of which fate cannot drive us.

Nothing is a matter of age. It's really in the person because you can publish book after book after book and still want that golden apple. And maybe it's the reality principle that has hit me. I believe that a career is very different from writing. My career is a certain kind of career.

Emotional grandeur, rendered in the vernacular, has been Mona Simpson's forte. In her novels, 'Anywhere but Here,' 'The Lost Father' and 'A Regular Guy,' Simpson wrote wide and long and high about the most profound human bonds: parents and children lost each other, found each other, lost each other again, but differently.

Nature allowed only the fit and the lucky to share this paradise-in-the-making.

I never felt inspired to write this book [ I Had Brain Surgery, What's Your Excuse?], like I did with the cat or dog book; I felt compelled. At the time (May 1999), I was planning to write and illustrate an altogether different memoir, a book about my decision whether or not to have a baby.

Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.

Paradise is not something unique; there are so many paradises in the universe; Earth is one of them!

Did you know that Allah promises you a seat in Paradise if you kill a Christian?

I blurbed a nice book, not at all like my book 'The Big Oyster,' called 'The Essential Oyster.' I blurbed a pretty good book about meat called 'Meathooked.'

If I am happy inside, then I live in paradise no matter where my residence is.

The UN wasn't created to take mankind into paradise, but rather, to save humanity from hell.

Conformity, humility, acceptance with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise.

The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day.

I am against the idea of the end, that everything culminates in paradise or judgment.

Paradise is at your own center; unless you find it there, there is no way to enter.

He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.

It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase, and there was never virgin got till virginity was first lost. That you were made of is metal to make virgins. Virginity, by being once lost, may be ten times found: by being ever kept, it is ever lost. ’Tis too cold a companion: away with ’t!

It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.

May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.

During true revival, thousands of lost people are suddenly swept into the Kingdom of God. Scenes of the lost coming to the Savior in great, and unprecedented numbers, are common.

Still when I lost her, I lost sight of any landmark that might have led me someplace happier, to some more populated or congenial life.

Whenever I start a new book, I think, 'This is the most interesting subject of all time. It's sad, I'll never enjoy writing another book as much as I enjoy this one.' Every time, I'm convinced. And then I change my mind when I start the next book.

I mean only that I hope they find darkness or paradise without fear of it, if they can.

...Samuel rode lightly on top of a book and he balanced happily among ideas the way a man rides white rapids in a canoe. But Tom got into a book, crawled and groveled between the covers, tunneled like a mole among the thoughts, and came up with the book all over his face and hands.

You know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, they die of shame. Yeah, see, they die of shame. 'What did I do wrong? How could I have gotten myself into this?' And so they sit there and they... die. Because they didn't do the one thing that would save their lives. Thinking.

To be able to play Jack Kerouac or Sal Paradise, it's mad to me.

When I was writing the book, I thought "Who wants to hear another story about some actor who lost his way?" But my story is a little unique in that I realized when I was 14 years old that I was different. I think a lot of gay people use drugs and alcohol to quell that fear and shame - especially people of my age.

9/11, the wars and terrorism have affected all of us in different ways: people who lost family on 9/11, the people who lost family in the wars and people who lost family in various terrorist attacks that have occurred since.

We are equal inhabitants of a paradise of individuals in which everybody has the right to be understood.

I doubt if I shall ever have time to read the book again -- there are too many new ones coming out all the time which I want to read. Yet an old book has something for me which no new book can ever have -- for at every reading the memories and atmosphere of other readings come back and I am reading old years as well as an old book.

Your book grows. The early part of your book is growing still while you are writing the later part of your book.

My Paradise: With Christ. Not sinning. No pain. New earth. Precious in that order.

If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory.

Critics don't really affect the fact that we live in this paradise and what the meaning of that [is]. And what luck to have this!

Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise.

In my version of paradise, the air was always cold and the rivers ran with candy.

Domestic happiness, thou only bliss Of paradise that has surviv'd the fall!

An inherent sense of man makes him long for an eternal paradise.

If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home.

I am dying not just to attempt to end the barbarity of H-blocks or to gain the rightful recognition of political prisoners, but primarily because what is lost here is lost for the Republic.

Obviously, I got very lucky that even though I lost my mother, I lost her later in life, but it's still had a profound effect on me.

The one thing that saved me is that in 17 years of coaching I never had an NCAA investigator talk to one of my players. I lost games, but I lost the right way.

Appearing in 'Death in Paradise' was my very first time acting in English.

Remembrance is the only paradise out of which we cannot be driven away.

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.

The book [Night manager] is amazing. It is amazing to act in any book adaptation, because a book gives you so many secrets and details that don't necessarily get shot in an adaptation. They give you a cushion underneath everything. The detail in the character, the detail in the tone.

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.

Paradise for a happy man lies in his own good nature.

South Carolina is in the spring a paradise, in the summer a hell, and in the autumn a hospital.

I should write a book. I've always wanted to write a book. I should write a book about kids who see dead people.

Some people would be discontented in Paradise, others ... are cheerful in a graveyard.

Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.

I hate [ebooks]. It's like making believe there's another kind of sex. There isn't another kind of sex. There isn't another kind of book! A book is a book is a book.

Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and children.

You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames.

Gentleness and kindness will make our homes a paradise upon earth.