Grounds Quotes

360 quotes by 316 authors

This is a unique deposit not just in terms of reserves, but also in terms of extraction techniques. Therefore there're grounds to talk about [applying]… — Viktor Khristenko
Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation. — David Quammen
The civilized people of today look back with horror at their medieval ancestors who wantonly destroyed great works of art or sat slothfully by while… — Theodore Roosevelt
Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark huts last hardly longer than those… — John Muir
Of all the officers of the Government, those of the Department of Justice should be kept most free from any suspicion of improper action on… — Theodore Roosevelt
Walking around a slum in a third world country quickly puts into perspective what really matters in life. It grounds you in a way that… — Katherine Schwarzenegger
Strictly speaking, the mass, as a psychological fact, can be defined without waiting for individuals to appear in mass formation. In the presence of one… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
It is difficult for a proud man ever to forgive a person who has found him at fault, and who has good grounds for complaining… — Jean de la Bruyere
The idea of abolishing Income Tax is to me highly attractive, both on other grounds & because it tends to public economy. — William E. Gladstone
Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to… — Marilyn French
The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize… — Germaine Greer
Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium. — Cyril Connolly
I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time… — Mitch Daniels
As it happens, I have personally been something of an enthusiast for the London Olympic games, mainly on the grounds a) that a bit of… — Evan Davis
But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to… — James Dean
The role of the intellectual, so it is said, is to speak truth to power. Noam Chomsky has dismissed this pious tag on two grounds.… — Terry Eagleton
Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking. — George Eliot
It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on the basis of social consensus and enable transformation on stable grounds. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan
There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature. — Stephen Hawking
The danger I faced was not accepted as reasonable grounds for deferring my tax payments, as authorities, who despite being told all of this, still… — Lauryn Hill

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