Ground Quotes
3275 Ground quotes by 2232 unique authors
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The abstractionist and the materialist thus mutually exasperating each other, and the scoffer expressing the worst of materialism, there arises a third party to occupy…
— Marsilio Ficino
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Take more time, cover less ground.
— Thomas Merton
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I have been a soldier all my life. I have commanded companies, I have commanded regiments. I have commanded divisions. And I have commanded even…
— James Longstreet
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Here you are truly separate from the earth, at least for a little while, removed from the cares and concerns that occupy you on the…
— Stephen Coonts
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Who would care to question the ground of forgiveness or compassion.
— Joseph Conrad
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It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and the moderns, standing…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Well, the years start coming and they don't stop coming. ?Bet you the rules and I hit the ground running Didn't make sense not to…
— Greg Camp
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Some writers may toy with the fancy of a ‘Christ-myth,’ but they do not do so on the ground of historical evidence. The historicity of…
— F. F. Bruce
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New York is traditional New York, you know what I'm saying? It's the stomping ground of the hustlers and go-getters
— Busta Rhymes
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I'm either shooting nine grams of coke a day or spending two hours at the gym. There's no middle ground.
— Dave Navarro
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In Tetrad form, the artifact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of the human mind or body…
— Marshall McLuhan
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An hour and thirty-one minutes after launch, my pressure altimeter halts at 103,300 feet. At ground control the radar altimeters also have stopped-on readings of…
— Joseph Kittinger
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It is not for us to imagine that we can prove the truth of Christianity by our own arguments; nobody can prove the truth of…
— J I Packer
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Avoid a sugared gospel as you would shun sugar of lead. Seek the gospel which rips up and tears and cuts and wounds and hacks…
— Charles Spurgeon
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A man may commit sin and yet be ignorant of it, and fancy himself innocent when he is guilty... We shall do well to remember…
— J C Ryle
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It is easy enough to vote right and be consistently with the majority. But it is more often more important to be ahead of the…
— Patsy Mink
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Character cannot be summoned at the moment of crisis if it has been squandered by years of compromise and rationalization. The only testing ground for…
— Dan Coats
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It is sobering to recall that though the Japanese relocation program, carried through at such incalculable cost in misery and tragedy, was justified on the…
— Henry Steele Commager
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You have never seen such animals as these who without a sound or a sign carry you off. You race with them across the long…
— Joy Williams
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Sticking with uncertainty is how we learn to relax in the midst of chaos, how we learn to be cool when the ground beneath us…
— Pema Chodron
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Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already. The ground of practice is…
— Pema Chodron
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Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.
— Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
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Too often, people think that solving the world's problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground.
— Chogyam Trungpa
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If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world. Successful enterprises…
— Lou Gerstner
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The zone is a place that you rarely visit. It's not some place you go every week. The zone is sacred ground.
— Joe Greene
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