I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
When I couldn't get ahold of cigarettes, I'd roll coffee grounds into typing paper and smoke that and then vomit.
Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
We as songwriters are in the same position as a professional fisherman. Our fishing grounds are kind of fished out.
At the end of the day, there's not an office complex anywhere on these grounds that I wouldn't be honored to have as a sitting member of Congress.
Discomfort isn't grounds for discrimination. We have a big country with a lot of different kinds of people in it.
You instantly become less selfish. You can't be the biggest person in the world anymore-they are. [Motherhood] really grounds you.
They remember when their parents went out there, had picnics on the Beck's Mill grounds. It was the nostalgia of it.
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.
Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say that he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.
I grew up playing in the schoolyard with the boy, and on the side of the grounds my dad coached on. I have a lot of fond memories.
I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me.
Specifically, I’d like to debate whether cannibalism ought to be grounds for leniency in murders, since it’s less wasteful.
I'm very upset that the Supreme Court ruled that citizens don't have standing to challenge the faith based initiatives on constitutional grounds.
There are no grounds for supposing that one can live a life without pain and sadness, but is it wrong to believe that somehow, somewhere, this is possible?
Hannibal Burress is my polar opposite in energy. I can be crazy, and he grounds the 'Eric Andre Show.'
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.
Poetry must find ways of breaking distance.... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds.
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.
It's fun when you create a world to inhabit it and see the other characters from grounds eye view.
Some women get divorces on the grounds of incompatibility; others, on just the first two syllables.
It is now a pleasure to go to any of the Premier League grounds. They are so welcoming, not just to me but to all the broadcasters - all media, really, you have to say.
War is indefensible on every grounds, military and economic and diplomatic and also on moral.
I hope that 'Remain' will carry the day, just on the grounds of common sense.
There are excellent public interest grounds to have a search engine whose rankings are transparent.
Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against.
There must have been good grounds for belief in witchcraft; otherwise Parliament would not have legislated against it.
Fiction writing and journalism, in my experience, are really excellent training grounds for each other.
Persecution on racial and religious grounds has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty.
The idea of abolishing Income Tax is to me highly attractive, both on other grounds and because it tends to public economy.
We're from Anaheim, that's our stomping grounds, that's where we grew up. That's where we practiced in the garage, that's where we went to high school.
If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.
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.
Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation.
If a liberal were to attack Justice Clarence Thomas on the grounds that he's black, we would all go crazy.
The most any one can do is to confess as candidly as he can the grounds for the faith that is in him, and leave his example to work on others as it may.
But I love bowling in India, the grounds are quite flat whereas in South Africa you feel you are running uphill.
Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
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.
When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.
Unfaithfulness ought to extinguish love, and we should not be jealous when there is reason to be. Only those who give no grounds for jealousy are worthy of it.
I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.
I think Americans did learn that you just are not going to be able to live well if you subordinate people on the grounds of their religion.
If words had flavors, hers would be bitter almonds and coffee grounds.
We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves, that there may be grounds enough for friendship.
Tapping of phones is a serious business and has to be authenticated by requisite authorities on valid grounds.
It has always been the artist who realizes that the future is the present and uses his work to prepare the grounds for it
There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.
Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.
No one wants a lecture when you're getting a latte. So if you get one without asking, isn't that grounds for some discipline?
I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese art museum.
So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy.
When any practice is proposed and enforced as a binding duty, we have a right to examine the grounds of the alleged obligation.
I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.
Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
Diversity and inclusion, which are the real grounds for creativity, must remain at the center of what we do.
We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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.
Educational institutions, which are the grooming grounds for creating responsible citizens have to be kept tobacco and smoke-free.
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