Quotes About Ground

But that was the nature of relationships: there always seemed to be an imbalance of one sort of another. And it was fine to plan an emotional strategy, but another thing when the ground opened up in front of you, and your defending troops toppled into a ravine which hadn't been marked on the map until a few seconds previously.

I stuck out a hand and tried to make up for lost ground. 'What did you say her name was, this chippy of yours?' I asked; but somehow it didn't come out as witty and ironic; just gawky and ill-bred.

The loon placed both palms down on the concrete in front of her and—CRACK!—smacked her forehead hard on the ground.

The artificial darkness with its lingering warmth crept about me like a muffler. I gradually began to recover my composure, like a mole that has gone to ground.

The discovery of America, the rounding of the Cape, opened up fresh ground for the rising bourgeoisie.

Physical elegance comes from the body. This is no superficial matter but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground.

A man's legs must be long enough to reach the ground.

Man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground.

No man was ever lost except for one reason: having once left his ground he has let himself become too permanently settled abroad.

... enforced Christianity was the surest breeding ground for unbelief. Many men either became unbelievers or met unbelievers during their military service.

There is life in the ground; it goes into the seeds and also when it is stirred up goes into the man who stirs it.

The task confronting contemporary man is to live with the hidden ground of his activities as familiarly as our literate predecessors lived with the figure minus ground.

Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good.

Such fire was not by water to be drown'd, Nor he his nature changed by changing ground. [Lat., Ne spegner puo per star nell'acqua il foco; Ne puo stato mutar per mutar loco.]

To the solid ground Of nature trusts the Mind that builds for aye.

And we will lie down on the ground and have conversations with the grasses and the flowers.

I used to wonder why I had hair on my legs, but now I know it's for my toddler sons and daughters to pull themselves up off the ground with as I scream in pain.

Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopaedia, your life story.

America is the most fertile ground of opportunity.

Rural poetry is the pleasure ground of those who live in cities.

Darkness moves like a pack of wild dogs.The wind moves like a wounded animal.The ground must be full of teeth by now.

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

We live in a country where there is a lot of animosity. If your politics is radical it antagonises. People might think I am overconfident. I look petulant when I stand my ground.

Where the U.N. is concerned, accountability is very thin on the ground in general.