Grounds Quotes

360 quotes by 316 authors

Maybe love won't let you down. All of your failures are training grounds and just as your back's turned you'll be surprised...as your solitude subsides… — William Shakespeare
Procedures outside the stadiums and in the parking areas still need to be optimized, for example so that emergency medical services can leave the grounds… — Otto Schily
Dialogue is a non-confrontational communication, where both partners are willing to learn from the other and therefore leads much farther into finding new grounds together — Scilla Elworthy
So I have no grounds to complain; on the contrary, writers should consider the condition of permanent controversiality to be invigorating, part of the risk… — Gunter Grass
Our connection to nature grounds us, it makes us more spiritually aware. We must keep the legacy of nature materially alive for future generations. — Nelly Furtado
The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal… — Michael Kinsley
To collude in the minimisation of British history on the grounds of its imagined irrelevance to our rebranded national future, or from a suspicion that… — Simon Schama
When helicopters were snatching people from the grounds of the American embassy compound during the panic of the final Vietcong push into Saigon, I was… — Calvin Trillin
At the end of the day, there's not an office complex anywhere on these grounds that I wouldn't be honored to have as a sitting… — Steve Womack
Embracing a certain quotient of racial bias and discrimination against the poor is an inexorable aspect of supporting capital punishment. This is an immoral condition… — Bryan Stevenson
Idea-assassins rush forward to kill any new suggestion on the grounds of its impracticality, while defending whatever now exists as practical, no matter how absurd. — Alvin Toffler
I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England. — Dinah Sheridan
It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that… — Ina May Gaskin
I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Skepticism is not a denial of belief, but rather a denial of rational grounds for belief. — William Pepperell Montague
I see now that dismissing YA books because you're not a young adult is a little bit like refusing to watch thrillers on the grounds… — Nick Hornby
A dead body was discovered this week on the grounds of a country estate owned by Queen Elizabeth. The queen said today she hopes this… — Jay Leno
How strange that excision â€“ female circumcision, with several languages using the same term for both kinds of mutilation â€“ of little girls should revolt… — Michel Onfray
We are often indifferent to our brethren who are distressed or upset, on the grounds that they are in this state through no fault of… — John Cassian
He who have two grounds of trust is lost! — Charles Spurgeon

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