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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 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
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
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
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
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
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
If 2012 is the end of the world can I have a table for two at Ground Zero?
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
It's a poore stake that cannot stand one yeare in the ground.
— George Herbert
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
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
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
Fear not! Stand your ground ... the Lord himself will fight for you; you have only to keep still.
— Moses
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
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 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 bodyWill 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
Resenting the obtuseness of others is not good ground for shooting oneself in the foot.
— Amartya Sen
If you're an artist, you try to keep an ear to the ground and an ear to your heart.
— Bruce Springsteen
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
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
Lack of money rivets us firmly to the ground, one's wings are clipped.
— Paula Modersohn-Becker
