If you punish him for what he sees you practise yourself, he. . . will be apt to interpret it the peevishness and arbitrary imperiousness of a father, who, without any ground for it, would deny his son the liberty and pleasure he takes himself.
For even if you should have stood your ground, he said, yet what ground was it?
You know when you're hungry and excited and you feel humble about it? I like that. In the past, when things were not clear, I think I wasn't. . . I didn't have my feet on the ground as much, maybe, 10 years ago. So I just feel like this is a good place to be now, to feel that you want to tell stories from this place and that you're excited to tell stories from this place because you know what you love. I know what I love right now.
No commander in chief would ever say, 'I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground.
Being an artist isn't a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It's an attitude we can all adopt. It's a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things, you're an artist.
Let us not go over the old ground but rather prepare for what is to come.
I was wishing I was invisible. Outside, the leaves were falling to the ground, and I was infinitely sad, sad down to my bones. I was sad for Phoebe and her parents and Prudence and Mike, sad for the leaves that were dying, and sad for myself, for something I had lost.
The pain that comes from deep love makes your love more fruitful. It is like a plow that breaks the ground to allow the seed to take root.
I'm not sure if [Hillary Clinton] means it or not. But she says no boots on the ground. She has taken a tremendous - I mean, that's really giving strength to the enemy.
I'm too high, but I ain't left the ground.
James Russell offers a timely and compelling blueprint for a realistic transformation of America's energy consumption by refusing to fall victim to conventional thinking. Accessible?pragmatic even?Russell's proposals speak to goals on the immediate horizon and underscore the role that intelligent design can play now in America. On a longer horizon, his analysis points to a range of issues about land use, transportation, and coordination of public and private investments to which the design professions have an enormous contribution to make. Here design and policy find common ground.
For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?
Could women's liberation ever be a revolutionary movement, not rhetorically but on the ground?
There is no word for time. Today we will not think to number another summer or watch its white bird into the ground.
Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence
And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well By the purification of the motive In the ground of our beseeching
We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too.
It was a mind-blowing experience, it really was-absolutely an awesome thing. . . . As I got to the top I released a bag of M&Ms in the cockpit. It was amazing. . . Looking out that window, seeing the white clouds in the LA Basin, it looked like snow on the ground.
The truly humble feel the ground beneath their feet every day and do not only become aware of it when held aloft or pushed down to their knees.
I’d prefer to see both knees on the ground. I mean, if you’re going to grovel, be the best groveler you can, right?