Top 1200 Common Ground Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I am built close to the ground and of extravagant body.

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

As in forming a political society, each individual contributes some of his rights, in order that he may, from a common stock of rights, derive greater benefits, than he could from merely his own; so, in forming a confederation, each political society should contribute such a share of their rights, as will, from a common stock of these rights, produce the largest quantity of benefits for them.

Any time you're throwin dirt you're losin ground.

Her smile, I'm sure, burnt Rome to the ground.

An offended heart is the breeding ground of deception.

I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens... within I don't know how many years, but in not too long a time, it's going to become basic common sense that you are not some alien being who confronts an external world that is not you, but that almost every intelligent person will have the feeling of being an activity of the entire universe.

I haven't broken any new ground in the form of a film.

The weakest kind of fruit drops earliest to the ground.

Most sportswriters don't know their ass from a hole in the ground.

... an essential feature of a decent society, and an almost defining feature of a democratic society, is relative equality of outcome - not opportunity, but outcome. Without that you can't seriously talk about a democratic state... These concepts of the common good have a long life. They lie right at the core of classical liberalism, of Enlightenment thinking... Like Aristotle, [Adam] Smith understood that the common good will require substantial intervention to assure lasting prosperity of the poor by distribution of public revenues.

I think my moral ground is very much intact.

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

I try to, pardon the expression, stay with my feet on the ground.

As an actor, Coppola trained me. That was my training ground.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.

When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.

We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Don't wait to find solid ground. Dance in emptiness.

An eclipse is one phenomenon that is actually more impressive from the ground.

At bottom, the Court's opinion is thus a rejection of the common sense of the American people, who have recognized a need to prevent corporations from undermining self-government since the founding, and who have fought against the distinctive corrupting potential of corporate electioneering since the days of Theodore Roosevelt. It is a strange time to repudiate that common sense. While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics.

Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.

Life has very little even ground.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

The stage is a training ground and it's where you learn what's funny and what's successful.

If we dreamed the same thing every night, it would affect us much as the objects we see every day. And if a common workman were sure to dream every night for twelve hours that he was a king, I believe he would be almost as happy as a king who should dream every night for twelve hours on end that he was a common workman.

What a dull universe it would be if everything in it conformed to our expectations, if it held nothing to surprise or baffle us or confound our common sense. A century ago no one foresaw the existence of black holes, an expanding universe, oceans on Jupiter's moons, or DNA. What could be more enriching than to know that we share a common origin with all living things, that we are kin to chimpanzees, redwoods and mollusks? And isn't it a source of wonder to realize that the iron in our blood and the calcium in our bones were created in the bellies of supernovas?

Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up.

I have improved my kickboxing, and I am very good on the ground.

Being a mother is the ultimate training ground for anything.

Huntington Beach is like ground zero for surfers.

The middle of life is the testing-ground of character and strength.

Miesha has holes in her game standing and on the ground.

I'd rather walk a tightrope than have my feet on the ground.

It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.

He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

Use pain as a stepping stone, not a camp ground.

In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.

Between the two, the nationalist and the imperialist, there is no meeting ground.

Even if we remain flexible, we need ground rules.

That's like comparing apples with hermaphroditic ground sloths.

This generation is burning the mass media to the ground.

Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.

We don't know our ass from a hole in the ground.

I never felt like I was on solid ground, emotionally.

Gentlemen and ladies are sure of their ground. They pretend to nothing that they are not.

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feelings of moral superiority while asking nothing in return. With contempt you don't need to right the wrong (as with anger) or flee the scene (as with fear or disgust). And the best of all, contempt is made to share. Stories about the moral failings of others are among the most common kinds of gossip, they are a stable of talk radio, and they offer a ready way for people to show that they share a common moral orientation.

Always God’s goodness is the ground of our expectation.

The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into novelty.

Take more time, cover less ground.

My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on.

As soon as we left the ground, I knew I had to fly.

Be a peg, hammered into the frozen ground, immovable.

I'm a common law judge. I believe in deciding every case on its facts, not on a legal philosophy. And I believe in deciding each case in the most limited way possible, because common law judges have a firm belief that the best development of the law is the one that lets society show you the next step, and that next step is in the new facts that each case presents.

It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.

Where the U.N. is concerned, accountability is very thin on the ground in general.

The ground was silvery, as if some stars had fallen there.