Ground Quotes

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The cause of freedom is identified with the destinies of humanity, and in whatever part of the world it gains ground by and by, it… — Lajos Kossuth
The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now distinct from each… — Richard Owen
More than a rejection or dissolution of the past, avant-garde originality is conceived as a literal origin, a beginning from ground zero, a birth. — Unknown Author
Look upon yourself as a tree planted beside the water, which bears its fruit in due season; the more it is shaken by the wind,… — Margaret Mary Alacoque
Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around.… — Unknown Author
A man who is all theory is like "a rudderless ship on a shoreless sea." ... Theories and speculations may be indulged in with safety… — Elisha Gray
The theoretical side of physical chemistry is and will probably remain the dominant one; it is by this peculiarity that it has exerted such a… — Svante Arrhenius
Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him [her husband, George Boole]; and even logic he cared for chiefly as a means… — Mary Everest Boole
There is no ground for supposing that matter and energy existed before [the Big Bang] and were suddenly galvanized into action. For what could distinguish… — Unknown Author
When I'm not working on the ground, spending time with my husband and daughter puts me at ease. — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
If we do not wish to fight, we can prevent the enemy from engaging us even though the lines of our encampment be merely traced… — Sun Tzu
Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from high places and hastens downwards... Water shapes its course according… — Sun Tzu
If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we… — Sun Tzu
On dispersive ground, therefore, fight not. On facile ground, halt not. On contentious ground, attack not. On open ground, do not try to block the… — Sun Tzu
Any idiot can train himself into the ground; the trick is working in training to get gradually stronger. — Keith Brantly
I have been asked what I mean by my word of honor. I will tell you. Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone… — Karl G. Maeser
Integrity is the factor that determines which one will prevail. We struggle daily with situations that demand decisions between what we want to do and… — John C. Maxwell
It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true — Bertrand Russell
I do not see why the axiom of Prudence should not be questioned, when it conflicts with present inclination, on a ground similar to that… — Henry Sidgwick
We can become the masters of our own destinies by practicing self-discipline and by setting worthy goals that will lead to higher ground so that… — M. Russell Ballard
We prepare the ground for our prayer when we shed something which is not Christ's, which is unworthy of him, and only the prayer of… — Anthony of Sourozh
There is something in such laws that takes the breath away. They are not discoveries or inventions of the human mind, but exist independently of… — M.C. Escher
Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production - only… — Barbara Ehrenreich
We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training… — Midge Decter
The real "it is well" is something I say from the ground, having fallen. — Antonio Porchia

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