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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others. — Bertolt Brecht

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

When we care about people, we sometimes overstep our grounds. — C.C. Hunter

They who set an example make a highway. Others follow the example, because it is easier to travel on a highway than over untrodden grounds. — Horace Mann

Since critics found it hard to defeat him on intellectual grounds, they stooped to personal attacks. — Ron Chernow

Creativity rudely trespasses and tramples on accepted grounds. — Ted Agon

The most crucial problem with intellectual learning is that it receives the unknown on the grounds of the known. — Raheel Farooq

October arrived, spreading a damp chill over the grounds and into the castle. — J.K. Rowling

Tea is, in fact, a marvelous drink. To those who spurn it on the grounds of insomnia, I say that it's better to be deprived of sleep than of tea. — Soseki Natsume

happy hunting-grounds — James Fenimore Cooper

On the grounds of prestigious musical organizations that come and go, New York has the edge. — Jeffrey Tate

Cities are murky places - hatching grounds for monsters ... — John Geddes

Shere Khan, the Big One, has shifted his hunting grounds. He will hunt among these hills for the next moon, so he has told me. — Rudyard Kipling

Unless we can interpret that ecstatic trip in a way that better grounds our physical reality, trance isn't worth much. — S. Kelley Harrell

They remember when their parents went out there, had picnics on the Beck's Mill grounds. It was the nostalgia of it. — Larry Nelson

England a fortune-telling host, As num'rous as the stars, could boast; Matrons, who toss the cup, and see The grounds of Fate in grounds of tea ... — Charles Churchill

Ghetto was from Newark and Spazo was from the Polo Grounds in Harlem. Ghetto's family lived in Harlem. — Dion Perkins

No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds. — Livy

You should be aware that anywhere that a ground rod is installed, that there may be AC voltage/current/frequency in the vicinity of it. — Steven Magee

Medicine grounds me, it centers me, that's why I continue to do it. — Mehmet Oz

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it. — William Shenstone

The idea of abolishing Income Tax is to me highly attractive, both on other grounds & because it tends to public economy. — William E. Gladstone

Faith is not a blind, irrational conviction. In order to believe, we must know what we believe, and the grounds on which our faith rests. — Charles Hodge

Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation. — David Quammen

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature. — Stephen Hawking

Kissinger would probably be outraged even if he reread his own memoirs, on the grounds that they are not favorable enough. — Walter Isaacson

Democracies are poor breeding grounds for terrorism and war. — Adam Schiff

People are reluctant to cite boredom as grounds for divorce. — Mason Cooley

When any practice is proposed and enforced as a binding duty, we have a right to examine the grounds of the alleged obligation. — Adoniram Judson

If it isn't a success, that still wouldn't be grounds for divorce. — Geena Davis

What sells, today, is whatever Fucks You Up - whatever short-circuits your brain and grounds it out for the longest possible time. — Hunter S. Thompson

It is not possible to have reasonable grounds for not believing in miracles. — Blaise Pascal

An eerie feeling, a notion that devils roam the grounds instead of men. Who knows what anyone will do now that the rules are gone? — Pierce Brown

The only grounds for divorce in California are marriage. — Cher

What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts. — Thomas Henry Huxley

Hannibal Burress is my polar opposite in energy. I can be crazy, and he grounds the 'Eric Andre Show.' — Eric Andre

Make thy books thy companions. Let thy cases and shelves be thy pleasure grounds and gardens. — Judah Ben Saul Ibn Tibbon

I spent most of my youth in Manchester, in clubs and football grounds and the Manchester Apollo. — John Simm

And where men build on false grounds, the more they build, the greater is the ruine — Thomas Hobbes

The cost of ignorance is high and it can erode life, vision and wealth to the barren grounds of poverty and perplexity. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Dreams are the flowers of imagination which bloom on the fertile grounds of the mind. — Debasish Mridha

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature. — A.A. Milne

With God there are no dead ends, only training grounds. — John H. Walton

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 doctor who willingly accepts destroying life will have no grounds on which to object if the state should compel that doctor to destroy life, — Mildred Fay Jefferson

8.45 a.m. My mother is in the hospital grounds smoking a cigarette. She is looking old and haggard. All the debauchery is catching up with her. — Sue Townsend

Love people who hate you and their hatred won't get grounds to gain roots. — Israelmore Ayivor

Even if animal experiments did result in a cure for AIDS, of which there is no chance, I'd be against it on moral grounds. — Ingrid Newkirk

Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. — Frances Wright

Family is what grounds you. — Angelina Jolie

Beware the person who seeks to lead and has not suffered, who claims responsibility on the grounds of a spotless record. — Eric Greitens

We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds. — Jean Rostand

Scientists should not do animal testing if there is any alternative, but subject to that, I would support it on grounds of the medical benefits. — David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury Of Turville

Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success. — Patricia Ireland

We as songwriters are in the same position as a professional fisherman. Our fishing grounds are kind of fished out. — Jimmy Webb

Moral grounds are always the last refuge of people who have no sense of beauty. — Oscar Wilde

I will force Hillary Clinton to fight on the grounds of her lies and lack of trustworthiness, whether that's about e-mails, and servers and Benghazi. — Carly Fiorina

Our policy is impossible to justify on rational grounds, which is why we've started invoking national security and other shibboleths. — James K. Morrow

We are saved by grace, through faith in Christ alone! And since there is no room for human merit there can be no grounds for human boasting! — Steve Camp

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

He who have two grounds of trust is lost! — Charles Spurgeon

We must leave our pets at home, when we go into the street, and meet men on broad grounds of good meaning and good sense. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

No great question will ever be settled in dollars and cents. Great questions must be settled on moral grounds and the tests of what makes free men. — Herbert Hoover

If a liberal were to attack Justice Clarence Thomas on the grounds that he's black, we would all go crazy. — Newt Gingrich

And they cannot be solid Christians, that are not instructed in the grounds of Christianity. The — William Gurnall

Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society. — Barry O'Farrell

Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media. — George Lucas

Chicago is old stomping grounds for me. — Bobby Womack

The many speak highly of you, but have you really any grounds for satisfaction with yourself if you are the kind of person the many understand? — Seneca The Younger

Through the Internet, I've developed a strong social network - something I could never do if I had to keep my choice of peers within school grounds. — Aaron Swartz

Be sure that your praise songs are numbered higher than your sorrowful dirges and your utmost hope, firmer than your woeful regrets. Be positive. — Israelmore Ayivor

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics. — Carl Jung

The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar. — Tanith Lee

If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance. — Richard Wagner

Persecution on racial and religious grounds has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty. — Nicholas Murray Butler

I know that whenever I feel my world turning
upside down, nothing grounds me like a manicure. — Lauren Kate

I said from the very beginning, I don't want a big house, I don't want big grounds, I don't want the trouble with the maintenance and all of that. — Nancy Reagan

Rational is when an act is performed based on logical grounds. — Duop Chak Wuol

I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me. — Joseph Epstein

Being in a relationship grounds you. You feel a sense of home. — Jonathan Knight

Go ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science. — Daniel Dennett

There are deaths in public places on the grounds that the victim is gay. — Ian McKellen

Are there grounds now and then for an unironic smile? — Robert Adams

In Scotland football hooliganism has been met by banning alcohol from grounds but in England this solution has been circumnavigated — Wallace Mercer

No matter the good news anywhere else, these nuke-hungry rogue states will provide grounds for bad-mouthing Bush foreign policy. — Rich Lowry

Poetry must find ways of breaking distance ... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds. — Giannina Braschi

I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England. — Dinah Sheridan

But don't ever forget: adultery is also biblical grounds for forgiveness, healing, and restoration. — Craig Groeschel

I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment. — William Golding

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. — Bertrand Russell

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution. — William Butler Yeats

I'm exempt from anything I damned will feel like on the grounds that I'll kick anyone's ass who says otherwise. — Simon R. Green

One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself — Mark Twain

The grounds of your justification are the perfect works of Jesus Christ. We're saved by works, but they're not our own. — R.C. Sproul

I decided not to answer on the grounds that I might piss someone off. — Laurell K. Hamilton

There are excellent public interest grounds to have a search engine whose rankings are transparent. — Mitch Kapor

Skepticism is not a denial of belief, but rather a denial of rational grounds for belief. — William Pepperell Montague

If a concept or principle finds its place in an explanatory theory, it cannot be excluded on methodological grounds. — Noam Chomsky

Mental cruelty, nondisfiguring physical abuse or just plain unhappiness are rarely considered grounds on which a woman can seek divorce. — Geraldine Brooks

If manipulation really does increase welfare, then it would seem to be justified and even mandatory on ethical grounds. — Cass R. Sunstein