Only one who has risked the fight with the dragon and is not overcome by it wins the "treasure hard to attain. " He alone has a genuine claim to self-confidence, for he has faced the dark ground of his self and thereby has gained himself. This experience gives him faith and trust.
An offended heart is the breeding ground of deception.
Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.
When you're having trouble and topping the ball, it means the ground is moving on you.
My mind’s screaming went unvoiced. Logic grabbed the panic and wrestled it to the ground.
People should think less about what they ought to do and more about what they ought to be. If only their being were good, their works would shine forth brightly. Do not imagine that you can ground your salvation upon actions; it must rest on what you are.
It can take a long time for some people to find out how to ground themselves, and film sets are an odd atmosphere to do it in - especially if, like me, you finished school early.
You lived and died alone, especially in fighters. Fighters. Somehow, despite everything, that word had not become sterile. You slipped into the hollow cockpit and strapped and plugged yourself into the machine. The canopy ground shut and sealed you off. Your oxygen, your very breath, you carried into the chilled vacuum, in a steel bottle.
A people [America] that does not prepare to fight should then be morally prepared to surrender. To fail to prepare soldiers and citizens for limited, bloody ground action, and then to engage in it, is folly verging on the criminal.
though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
Clichés remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that others have trod this ground long ago.
When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.