Vanity is so superficial. It doesn't provide the grounds for progress.
I worked for dad on the grounds and I was in high school and I said I wanted to go to college, and he said, well, you figure it out. He said I will pay for your college but you're going to go to St. Vincent. St. Vincent College right here. That's about as much as I can afford, you work here, right here at home. I said, what if I can get somewhere else? And he said if I can get there, that's your call.
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.
Persecution on racial and religious grounds has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty.
When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world. The wartime posters told us that Careless Talk costs Lives. It is equally true that Careless Lives cost Talk. Our careless lives set the outer world talking; and we give them grounds for talking in a way that throws doubt on the truth of Christianity itself.
We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves, that there may be grounds enough for friendship.
Objection!" Metz shouts. Grounds?" the judge asks. Well. . . he's my witness!
It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.
It seems to me that the bane of our country is a profession of faith either with no basis of real belief, or with no proper examination of the grounds on which the creed is supposed to rest.
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.
Dialogue is a non-confrontational communication, where both partners are willing to learn from the other and therefore leads much farther into finding new grounds together
Not only the grounds of the opinion are forgotten in the absence of discussion, but too often the meaning of the opinion itself. . . Instead of a vivid conception and a living belief, there remain only a few phrases retained by rote; or, if any part, the shell and husk only of the meaning is retained, the finer essence being lost.
Family is what grounds you.
I disagree with those who suggest that we permanently close down the U. S. mail on the grounds that it can kill you. That is sheer hysteria. I think we should permanently close down the U. S. mail on the grounds that it has been making us sick for quite a while.
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.
Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance. The appearance of reality is necessary to make any passion agreeably represented, and to be able to move others we must be moved ourselves, or at least seem to be so, upon some probable grounds.
By regarding ourselves with kindness, we begin to dissolve the identity of an isolated, deficient self. This creates the grounds for including others in an unconditionally loving heart.
Curiosity is a quest for wisdom on untamed grounds.
Immediately after 11 September, the U. S. closed down the Somali charitable network Al-Barakaat on grounds that it was financing terror. This achievement was hailed one of the great successes of the 'war on terror. ' In contrast, Washington's withdrawal of its charges as without merit a year later aroused little notice.
I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer