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Reformers who are always compromising, have not yet grasped the idea that truth is the only safe ground to stand upon. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

It wounded me enough to ground me, but not so much as to knock all the life out of me. — Robert A. Johnson

Without a true self, a person can not go on living. It is like the ground we stand on. Without the ground, we can build nothing. — Haruki Murakami

Failure is not falling to the ground; it is remaining there once you have fallen and the greatest failure is when you decide not to stand up again. — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Assumed understanding based upon religious tradition is the breeding ground for error. — Robert G. Paul

The situation was different in the jungle. Every inch of ground had to be earned, and was done so through much exertion with the blade. — Tahir Shah

It takes a little time sometimes
To get your feet back on the ground ... — Amy Grant

The trouble with leaving your feet on the ground is you never get to take your pants off. — Ringo Starr

Why cannot we work at cooperative schemes and search for the common ground binding all mankind together? — William O. Douglas

I thought I could do that by telling stories of some of the cases that established those principles on a real life on the ground basis. — Floyd Abrams

Trying to conceal a crime is like burying a seed in the ground. — Franz Grillparzer

The only way the meek will ever inherit the earth is when they get ground into it by the heel of someone else's boot. — Dan Groat

You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground. — A. J. McLean

The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right out from under you. — Haruki Murakami

If the map doesn't agree with the ground the map is wrong — Gordon Livingston

How amazing it is to be alive Anyone who lives and breathes and puts both feet on the ground, What possible reason could he have for envying the gods — Paul Claudel

Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards. — Saskya Pandita

A good mind is the mind which leaves no one on the ground when rising! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance. — Samuel Johnson

The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism — Nancy Hartsock

This is the law: blood spilt upon the ground cries out for more. — Aeschylus

It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away. — Anthony Trollope

The ground is no place for a champion. The ground is no place that I will wallow on. — Jesse Jackson

Soldiers falling fast
Battle of white and scarlet
Blossoms on the ground — David Kudler

Diderot took the ground that, if orthodox religion be true Christ was guilty of suicide. Having the power to defend himself he should have used it. — Robert Green Ingersoll

When you play the games of thrones, you win or die. There is no middle ground. — George R R Martin

In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good. — Olympia Snowe

You better get used to it. You're going to be on the ground a lot today, but cheer up ... tomorrow you'll be an expert. — Judy Blume

When occupations come to us we must accept them; when things come to us we must understand them from the ground up. — Lu Yen-hsun

But the might-have-been is but boggy ground to build upon. — Herman Melville

We are pursued (persecuted and hard driven), but not deserted [to stand alone]; we are struck down to the ground, but never struck out and destroyed; — Anonymous

If 2012 is the end of the world can I have a table for two at Ground Zero? — Stanley Victor Paskavich

I kind of just put my boards together wherever I feel comfortable that day. It could be on the kitchen table, on the ground, on the couch, wherever. — Ryan Sheckler

It's a poore stake that cannot stand one yeare in the ground. — George Herbert

It's a rite of passage for the everyman, to a higher ground. — Bob Seger

As a producer and director, I've tried for years to get properties off the ground for girls, and I've been hitting a brick wall. — Melanie Mayron

My heart was on the verge, if not of explosion than of collapse, hurtling to an inward oblivion, sucking down with it the very ground I stood on. — C.S.E. Cooney

Sorrow is a stone that crushes a single bearer to the ground, while two are able to carry it with ease. — Philip James Bailey

You're only powerless if you choose to be, no matter how many chains tie you to the ground. — Danyelle Leafty

The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow. — Jack Hanna

Whole days and weeks have I spent prostrate on the ground in silent or vocal prayer. — George Whitefield

Mouth sealed," Tyson promised. "Like the crack in the ground. — Rick Riordan

If he didn't have a cigar to hold on to, his feet would leave the ground. We'd never see out Zooey again. — J.D. Salinger

When you cook a sausage, the skin sometimes breaks and the ground meat comes apart. — Jose Andres

For there below ground sits the Dark God, strong to call men to judgment; he sees all, and writes it in his memory. — Aeschylus

The happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance is not the works of Shakespeare (as Buck Mulligan says) but the Holy Bible. — Paul Theroux

Fear not! Stand your ground ... the Lord himself will fight for you; you have only to keep still. — Moses

Orbiting a planet, or any significant source of gravity, was a lot like constantly throwing yourself at the ground and figuring out how to miss. — Evan Currie

The ground's soft with pine needles and the occasional crunch of a cone. The air smells like it's just been born. — Libba Bray

There is a fulness of time when men should go, and not occupy too long the ground to which others have a right to advance. — Thomas Jefferson

Let's listen to the people and find common ground to remove barriers to job creation. — Peter Roskam

Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground. — Patricia Highsmith

All the bitchy girls in the world are just a training ground for what men can do to you. — Sarah Dessen

Angie, I've seen my mom wrestle two cops to the ground with a taser dart in her neck, and you cry when your shoes pinch. Good luck, Bambi! — George Lopez

The afternoon light cast long shadows across the ground, — Patrick Wong

My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home. — Richard Bach

The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else's problems. — Donald Trump

The first harsh, sparse, swift drops rush through the leaves and across the ground in a long sigh, as though of relief from intolerable suspense. — William Faulkner

All too soon this body
Will lie on the ground,
Cast aside, deprived of consciousness,
Like a useless scrap of wood. — Gautama Buddha

Happiness isn't something this island yields easily; the ground is too rocky and the sun too sparse for it to flourish. — Maggie Stiefvater

To the solid ground Of Nature trusts the mind which builds for aye. — William Wordsworth

In March the soft rains continued, and each storm waited courteously until its predecessor sunk beneath the ground. — John Steinbeck

And the dancing has begun now, And the Dancings whirl round gaily In the waltz's giddy mazes, And the ground beneath them trembles. — Heinrich Heine

Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves. — Honore De Balzac

We were like trees with nowhere to sink our roots, Joseph and I. Instead of finding the ground we wound them around each other. — Lauren Nicolle Taylor

When I'm running fast, I don't feel anything, it's effortless, it's like my feet don't even touch the ground, it's like I'm flying. — Evelyn Ashford

Plants turn their face to the Sun; Animals, to the ground; and Men, to the darkness! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It's only the body that's gone. Only the body. There's a part that doesn't go in the ground, a part that stays inside you forever. — Jennifer Donnelly

it's said that the ground directly beneath the lantern is always the darkest. — Yom Sang-seop

Resenting the obtuseness of others is not good ground for shooting oneself in the foot. — Amartya Sen

I found someones passport on the ground tonight. Where do you sell these things? — Dane Cook

If you're an artist, you try to keep an ear to the ground and an ear to your heart. — Bruce Springsteen

Right now I feel that I've got my feet on the ground as far as my head is concerned. — Bo Belinsky

The freeway is the last frontier. It is unsurpassed as a training ground for the sharpening of survival skills. — Sheila Ballantyne

There is no room in this philosophy for a middle ground, or a series of gradations, between the passive and aggressive status. Many, — Benjamin Graham

I used to live in New York, and I have friends that work in the fashion world, and I feel like I had an ear to the ground there. — Gillian Jacobs

It is hard to talk about a middle ground for something that is a fundamental right. — Teri Reynolds

The ground for action is to be. Walk, sit, and eat in such a way that peace is possible in the here and the now. — Thich Nhat Hanh

I think I work harder on the pitch, I cover more ground and my passing is more accurate. — Frank Lampard

Drawing the desperate and the adrift, Los Angeles has long been the dumping ground of dreams both real and cinematic. — Steve Erickson

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story. — Lynn Abbey

I have a feeling I'm falling on rare occasions but most of the time I have my feet on the ground I can't help it if the ground itself is falling. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts. — Henry Ward Beecher

When the year turns, there are bells on the wind. All the old years fall on the ground in lights. — Jayne Anne Phillips

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency. — Theodore Roosevelt

In winter the very ground seemed to reach up and grab the elderly, yanking them to earth as though hungry for them. — Louise Penny

At some future time I shall see New York the artist's ground. I think you will create an American School. — Mary Cassatt

So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing. — Richard O'Brien

The ground is bare and hard / and will hold all secrets / and the sky cares not / for the games of those beneath it. — Steven Erikson

I think of the bog as a feminine goddess-ridden ground, rather like the territory of Ireland itself. — Seamus Heaney

None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty. — Henry David Thoreau

Death should be celebrated ... when you put something in the ground you always know where it is — Tea Obreht

What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure. — Sherwood Anderson

You can do anything when it's not real.
When it is real, nothing breaks your fall. Nothing gets between you and the ground. — Markus Zusak

I Din't finish speakin' my cure 'cos Roses schnockoed my face so hard the ground dived forward an' I crashed my jaxy. — David Mitchell

When life kicks you in the teeth and knocks you down to the ground. Are you able to stand up and keep fighting?! That's what it's all about. — Bob Harper

Raindrops were falling on the ground, never one on top of another. — Emmanuel Bove

Lack of money rivets us firmly to the ground, one's wings are clipped. — Paula Modersohn-Becker

I practice transcendental meditation and there is a phase where you're meant to lift off the ground. — Heather Graham

Your mindset controls every result in your life ... Mindset matters most if you are above the ground and breathing — Tony Dovale