Cyril Ramaphosa Quotes

Utopia means elsewhere.

Wheresoever she was, there was Eden.

Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.

Let's build Paradise again.

In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined a sweeter life.

Home is pretty utopian.

Well, again working strictly to the film, where you had this lovely, lovely land of brightness and color. And everybody is smiling and happy and butterflies flitting around and it was that kind of image that, it was like a dream world, really.

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 be, it is paradise. There is no other.

Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud.

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.

If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!

If we had a perfect world, we can do 'Scandal' during the day and 'Murder' at night - that's the optimal thing.

I have only one dream. It is the oldest of humanity, of man, in time. It is paradise. I would like to give paradise to everyone.

We live in the best place on earth but at times the worst.

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?

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.

… as fair a land as was ever trodden by the foot of man.

Some people want to live in a world much prettier than the one I depict. But it exists, and I talk about it because it exists.

Principe is paradise.

If we were capable of thinking of everything, we would still be living in Eden, rent-free with all-you-can-eat buffets and infinitely better daytime TV programming.