Ground Quotes

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To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself. — Johannes Tauler
In preindustrial cultures leisure is scarcely a burden or a "problem" because it is built into the ritual and ground plan of life for which… — David Riesman
I never fail to be moved by knowing that the ground on which I walk is layered with the past- with achievement and strife and… — Eva Hoffman
It would be a miracle, for example, if I dropped a stone and it rose upwards. But is it no miracle that it falls to… — Alfred Polgar
We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge,… — Asa Gray
All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction. — Alan Lightman
With a background in science I am extremely interested in the meeting ground of science, theology, and philosophy, especially the ethical questions at the border… — Alan Lightman
It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground. — T. Boone Pickens
The enemy is like a woman, weak in face of opposition, but correspondingly strong when not opposed. In a quarrel with a man, it is… — Ignatius Loyola
When I am writing, I'm very much on the ground, on the same ground my characters are treading. — Graham Swift
When I'm running fast, I don't feel anything, it's effortless, it's like my feet don't even touch the ground, it's like I'm flying. — Evelyn Ashford
Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdained free verse would always be open to accusations of… — James Fenton
It is enough for me to pick up but a straw from the ground for the love of God. — Brother Lawrence
Open political and economic systems have been gaining ground and there's a good reason for it. They work better. — George P. Shultz
To be honest, I found the 3D in 'Avatar' to be inconsistent and while ground breaking in many respects, sometimes I thought it overwhelmed the… — Mark Canton
To be able to influence someone or to be able to have a group of guys come together to have a successful team and to… — Tim Tebow
If you get a wrinkle, I don't feel that's indicative of your losing ground. That's ridiculous. — Leighton Meester
I have a tendency as an actress in general to ground my characters. Even when doing outlandish characters, that's my instinct. — Kate Burton
Probably my favorite piece of music, as an album taken as a whole, is Bruce Springsteen's 'Greetings from Asbury Park.' I just think it's incredibly… — Shane Black
But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is incredible really. — Billy Boyd
Fairly early in my career, I had a passion for wine just as a consumer, and I started to learn about the whole process, starting… — Drew Bledsoe
I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working… — Ian Botham
I just feel passionately about a few things and particularly about helping artists get off the ground. — Jane Badler
Our National Guard, as I think everybody knows, has provided about 40 percent of the boots on the ground in Iraq and in the conflict… — Christopher Bond
Washington, D.C. is full of think tanks, theoreticians and advocacy groups. Governors are the ones whose feet are on the ground. — Phil Bredesen

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