If words had flavors, hers would be bitter almonds and coffee grounds.
I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me.
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.
Man has not the right to turn aside and heed not what is happening in the world around him, and this I maintain on moral grounds of the highest order.
We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
8. 45 a. m. My mother is in the hospital grounds smoking a cigarette. She is looking old and haggard. All the debauchery is catching up with her.
He who have two grounds of trust is lost!
They remember when their parents went out there, had picnics on the Beck's Mill grounds. It was the nostalgia of it.
The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic. . . for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.
War is indefensible on every grounds, military and economic and diplomatic and also on moral.
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.
Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.
The internal dialogue is what grounds people in the daily world. The world is such and such or so and so, only because we talk to ourselves about its being such and such and so and so. The passageway into the world of shamans opens up after the warrior has learned to shut off his internal dialogue
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
Some brains are barren grounds, that will not bring seed or fruit forth, unless they are well manured with the old wit which is raked from other writers and speakers.
The atmosphere generated by the fans in Celtic's stadium for our visit was the most impressive I've ever witnessed. The grounds of Liverpool and Manchester United are good and the hostile feeling of playing against Real Madrid in the Bernabeu is also excellent, but the atmosphere against Celtic was the best.
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.
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.
No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
Are there grounds now and then for an unironic smile?