Grounds Quotes

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Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only… — C.S. Lewis
The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens… — C.S. Lewis
Look at the way the walls curve,' Macey said, her gaze panning around the strangely shaped room. 'it's almost like...' 'The library,' Liz said, and… — Ally Carter
One evening, when we were already resting on the floor of our hut, dead tired, soup bowls in hand, a fellow prisoner rushed in and… — Viktor E. Frankl
It's too early for there to be any coffee. I stare dully at the empty pot in the common room, while Sam picks up a… — Holly Black
A warrior takes his lot, whatever it may be, and accepts it in ultimate humbleness. He accepts in humbleness what he is, not as a… — Carlos Castaneda
When we care about people, we sometimes overstep our grounds. — C.C. Hunter
The internal dialogue is what grounds people in the daily world. The world is such and such or so and so, only because we talk… — Carlos Castaneda
The castle grounds were gleaming in the sunlight as though freshly painted; the cloudless sky smiled at itself in the smoothly sparkling lake, the satin-green… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
She looked back to see Sam standing there at the edge of the strip of sunlight inside Common Grounds, staring after her with an expression… — Rachel Caine
I went up on my toes to kiss him, and he groaned. "Do you really think this is appropriate on school grounds?" "Nope." I wrapped… — Rachel Vincent
If words had flavors, hers would be bitter almonds and coffee grounds. — Jodi Picoult
If she cries, I want to wear pants for a week," I offered. "Done," Maxon said. "And if she doesn't, you owe me a walk… — Kiera Cass
Where is Arland?" "Rapunzel decided to walk around in the woods to get 'the feel of the battleground.' He won't leave the grounds and he… — Ilona Andrews
This work, though it deals only with eating and drinking, which are regarded in the eyes of our supernaturalistic mock-culture as the lowest acts, is… — Ludwig Feuerbach
God forgives not capriciously, but with wise, definite, Divine pre arrangement; forgives universally, on the grounds of atonement and on the condition of repentance and… — Richard Salter Storrs
Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely. Only with the discovery of the double helix and the ensuing genetic revolution have we had… — James D. Watson
Seas of blood have been shed for the sake of patriotism. One would expect the harm and irrationality of patriotism to be self-evident to everyone.… — Leo Tolstoy
Poetry must find ways of breaking distance.... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds. — Giannina Braschi
I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion has anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds. — Bertrand Russell

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