Grounds Quotes

360 quotes by 316 authors

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right… — Aristotle
Debating clubs among boys are very useful, not only as affording pleasant meetings and interesting discussions, but also as serving for training grounds for developing… — Annie Besant
Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one. — Samuel Butler
The Senator from Massachusetts has given us ample grounds to doubt the judgment and the attitude he brings to bear on vital issues of national… — Dick Cheney
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall… — Winston Churchill
In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage. — Robert Anderson
The embassy in Cairo put out a statement after their grounds had been breached. ... An apology for America's values is never the right course.… — Mitt Romney
You instantly become less selfish. You can't be the biggest person in the world anymore-they are. [Motherhood] really grounds you. — Keri Russell
Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed to prove that God cannot… — Carl Sagan
Of all the unchristian beverages that ever passed my lips, Turkish coffee is the worst. The cup is small, it is smeared with grounds; the… — Mark Twain
Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little,… — Marcel Proust
Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting. — William Wordsworth
The most disgusting cad in the world is the man who on the grounds of decorum and morality avoids the game of love. He is… — H. L. Mencken
The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds… — Friedrich Nietzsche
We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills.… — Winston Churchill
The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and… — Tom Lehrer
Among all the occurrences possible in the universe the a priori probability of any particular one of them verges upon zero. Yet the universe exists;… — Jacques Monod
After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only two absolute grounds… — Horace Mann
It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles. — Blaise Pascal
If it isn't a success, that still wouldn't be grounds for divorce. — Geena Davis

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