When we reached the beach, Leif fell to his knees with a dramatic cry. "Solid ground! I'll never take you for granted again. " "Are you going to kiss the sand?" I asked. "Don't be ridiculous. " "Now I'M the one being silly?" "Yes.
I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.
I'm young. I'm pretty. And I'm willing to burn the whole world to the ground to get what I want.
If men are in a state in which they find it hard to be weaned from their own ways and choose rather to serve the pleasures of the flesh than to serve the Lord, and refuse to accept the Gospel life, there is no common ground between me and them.
Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs.
The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right out from under you.
I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.
In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
Make your race a playground, not a proving ground.
It's important for everyone - working moms especially - to find moments to ground themselves and connect with their own breath.
Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Actors that came up in the '50s and '60s, they had the theater, and television was in its infancy.
Let it be. Silly song, really. You let it be, it returns. There's the truth. You let it be, it drags you to the ground. You let it be, it crawls up your walls.
I have a very tiny house in Burbank. I drive an 8-year-old car. I'm gonna drive it into the ground. I enjoy what I enjoy.
Jackson Rathbone can really play the guitar. Our taste in music is not exactly the same, but we found common ground with Radiohead's Creep, with which he then serenaded me.
Meditation is not your doing. You simply make the effort, but it is not your doing. Your effort is needed to prepare the ground. As the ground is ready, immediately you see you are no more; the whole cosmos is. You have entered a greater womb, an eternal womb of tremendous peace and ecstasy.
Any idiot can train himself into the ground; the trick is working in training to get gradually stronger.
The time to worrying about flying is when you're on the ground. When you're up in the air, it's too late. No point in worrying about it then.
What matters at this stage is the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us. And if the tradition of the virtues was able to survive the horrors of the last dark ages, we are not entirely without ground for hope. This time however the barbarians are not waiting beyond the frontiers; they have already been governing us for quite some time.
I do not think of God theistically, that is, as a being, supernatural in power, who dwells beyond the limits of my world. I rather experience God as the source of life willing me to live fully, the source of love calling me to love wastefully and to borrow a phrase from the theologian, Paul Tillich, as the Ground of being, calling me to be all that I can be.
When boy likes you, you say no thank you. You don't kick him on the ground.