Eden Quotes - Page 5

Precedents once established are so much positive power.

We probably got on better with the likes of Holland, Belgium, Norway and Sweden, some of whom are not even European.

A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials.

When I can go just where I want to go, There is a copse of birch trees that I know; And, as in Eden Adam walked with God, When in that quiet aisle my feet have trod I have found peace among the silver trees, Known comfort in the cool kiss of the breeze Heard music in its whisper, and have known Most certainly that I was not alone!

I would rather create a precedent than find one.

The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did.

And it wasn't until '84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert tour.

We must cultivate our own garden.

We've have to heed our Biblical obligation to be good stewards of the Earth after leaving the Garden of Eden.

Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman's relationship to a psychoactive plant.

The ocean seemed like a sea of Eden. But now we are facing paradise lost.

Aristotle was but a wreck of an Adam, and Athens but the rubbish of an Eden. How completely sin has defaced the divine image in man! That man has lost his righteousness and happiness is clearly evident as we look at the state of the world today!

Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!

We must accept our reality as vastly as we possibly can; everything, even the unprecedented, must be possible within it.

Women may be whole oceans deeper than we are, but they are also a whole paradise better. She may have got us out of Eden, but as a compensation she makes the earth very pleasant.

If the right job came along, absolutely with bells on I would work in Sweden.

Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials.

Believe what is productive is not sedentary but nomadic.

I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active.

Action takes precedence over study.

People like you to be something, preferably what they are.

We don't live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.

I was born in Poland I came to Sweden when I was eight and always wanted to act and suddenly ended up in a Bond movie which was for me at that time absolutely enormous.

Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden.

Even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.