Action and reaction Quote by Terry Pratchett

“It was their business to put them into the ground, to hide them cleverly, so they would never hurt anybody ever again.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“He took such high ground that there was no getting on to it.”

— Anthony Trollope

“They said what they would do, and we did not listen. Then they did what they said they would do.”

— Frederich C. Rich

“And the general shot my sister. I could not look at her, but I remember the sound of when she hit the ground. I…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“You couldn't lay down the law and then sulk when no one challenged it.”

— Sydney Landon

“There was too little solid ground under one's feet.”

— Erich Maria Remarque

“Standing exposed on a rooftop, with no railing and the wind whipping about him, threatening to pull him flailing and screaming to the ground?…

— Matt Forbeck

“For he was not strong enough to receive the impact of unfamiliar things without a little talk to break their fall.”

— Eudora Welty

“you have a bad habit of falling at the feet of those who kick you straight to the curb.”

— Noor Shirazie

“As long as we had ground under our feet and the wind at our backs, things were going to be okay.”

— I.W. Gregorio

“Somehow this is what I wanted to happen. I was holding my ground under attack from my enemies, lashing out at them until they…

— Ian Cross

“...it was like being in the start of an earthquake. Before that, whatever else happened, however bad things had been, you were at least…

— Roland Merullo