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Quotes About Ground

Still, the gross-out footage is what really embodied the band's aesthetic. "Listen, man, one has no choice but to laugh in the face of terror," Haynes explained. "I think probably most airline pilots, when they see the ground coming at them, just before they hit, go, 'Oh my god, we're in trouble! Ha-ha-ha!
~ Michael Azerrad
There is only one sure means in life, Deasey said, of ensuring that you are not ground into paste by disappointment, futility, and disillusion. And that is always to ensure, to the utmost of your ability, that you are doing it solely for the money.
~ Michael Chabon
There is one sure means in life of ensuring that you are not ground into paste by disappointment, futility and disillusionment. And that is always to ensure, to the utmost of your ability, that you are doing it solely for the money.
~ Michael Chabon
All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.
~ Saint Basil
Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
~ Pat Buchanan
Education needs to be linked with life and should take into count the ground situation in different parts of India.
~ Sonam Wangchuk
I actually understand what a Marine on the ground goes through. I've seen generals and admirals struggle with different situations.
~ Todd Young
Canada has been a breeding ground for great comedic actors, sketch artists and stand-up comedians. We grew up with a different perspective on the world.
~ Harland Williams
Even stones have a love, a love that seeks the ground.
~ Meister Eckhart
I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.
~ Al Yankovic
I've always dreamed that love would be effortlessLike a pedal falling to the ground; a dreamer following his dream.
~ Kelly Clarkson
Every second a hundred bolts of lightning streak to Earth across the globe as the electric charges that build up within storm clouds are attracted by the positively charged ground. Earth experiences about 40,000 thunderstorms a day.
~ Bill Bryson
Every unrighteous action alienates humankind further from the ground, making it even more difficult to cultivate food and so experience divinely intended rest.
~ T. Desmond Alexander
Well, just think of a forest floor after a wildfire's put out. The flames are gone, the ones you can see, but the ground's still hot because it's smoldering underneath, buried. A poke could set it off to roaring again. Cher, worrying about that poke will follow me to my grave!
~ Tananarive Due
It is easier for us to get to know God than to know our own soul...God is nearer to us than our soul, for He is the ground in which it stands...so if we want to know our own soul, and enjoy its fellowship, it is necessary to seek it in our Lord God.
~ Julian of Norwich
Ma le cose invisibili hanno bisogno di incarnarsi, le idee cadono a terra come colombe morte.
~ Julio Cortazar
half the buildings still needed their wiring and in the evening light these structures sprawled about like ships of brick that had run aground.
~ Junot Diaz
In our Tradition, we use the body to experience the presence of God. We can teach the body what it feels like to surrender to the Divine as our forehead touches the ground during prayer. This is something the body needs to tangibly experience. (p. 6)
~ Kabir Helminski
My prayers have crystalized and crumbled to pieces. And flutter to the ground. In a thousand shards of memories.
~ Kaori Yuki
For there to be new growth of a conservative movement, of a right center party, the one that I joined in 1988, it needs to burn to the ground.
~ Steve Schmidt
Oh, while a man may dream awake, On gentle Irish ground, 'Tis Paradise without the snake - That's easy to be found.
~ Frederick Langbridge
The text is not inserted into a genetic process in which it is understood as emerging from this or that prior moment of form or style; nor is it 'extrinsically' related to some ground or context which is at least initially given as something lying beyond it. Rather, the data of the work are interrogated in terms of their formal and logical and, most particularly, their semantic conditions of possibility.
~ Fredric Jameson
Huh" Wayne said thoughtfully "Tea's poisoned." With that, he toppled to the ground.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Dragons were dangerous in the sky. Of course, they were dangerous on the ground too. Just less dangerous. In the same way that a sword is less dangerous so long as it's pointed at someone else.
~ Brandon Sanderson