Some women get divorces on the grounds of incompatibility; others, on just the first two syllables.
Skepticism is not a denial of belief, but rather a denial of rational grounds for belief.
If words had flavors, hers would be bitter almonds and coffee grounds.
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.
War is indefensible on every grounds, military and economic and diplomatic and also on moral.
I'm very aware that the future of any film is not necessarily the theatrical experience, it's the home video experience because that is the one that is going to be presented for years to come. So you want to make sure that you push your movie, but you're talking about a movie that you finished months ago. And your head is trying to move into new grounds and you're still pushing for the other one. That's the tough element of it.
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.
we are so little, so ignorant, so feeble an infant race crawling on a planet between immensities we haven't even begun to understand, that really we have no grounds for either congratulation or despair.