Quotes About Ground

When the mind rests open, blank, Utterly without the apprehension of appearing objects, This is the moment of the universal ground.

I feel sublime Then I lose ground Tripping on words That have no sound of love

the blow made her see stars. There was no time for astronomy in ground fighting, she thought

Bernard nodded. Then he put his hand on the ground, and Amara felt a faint tremor in the earth beneath their feet as he called upon his earth fury, Brutus, to create a hiding place. A few seconds later, the ground under them simply began to flow away, a slithery sensation in the soles of her feet, and they sank downward

My wild words slip into fusion and risk losing the solid ground. So stranger, get wilder still. Probe the highlands.

Let me just be in the ground. Let me just be in the ground and go to sleep.

No matter how beautiful the shoes are, they still have to go on the ground.

Every infantryman in the Soviet Army carries with him a small spade. When he is given the order to halt he immediately lies flat and starts to dig a hole in the ground beside him.

It is fortification from the inside out that is wanted—the kind accomplished only by those prepared to do batter for a piece of emotional ground that must be taken again and again before it is actually secured.

The wind and the rain, gives this place a gleam that just isn't natural. And the ground, alive with crawling things, crawling death.

Like everyone else, evangelicals have a right to present arguments on all the issues, but the moment we present them as part of some "Christian" platform we abandon our moral high ground.

20Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. 21The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: "Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though[35] every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.

But that didn't happen. Somehow, he was standing on solid ground that looked anything but solid.

I'm worried he's going to...do something crazy. He lives in a hole in the ground, dresses funny and occasionally eats his assistants, Eve said. Define crazy . Claire closed her eyes. Okay. I think he wants to put my brain in a jar and wire it into the machine. Dead silence.

I'm worried he's going to . . . do something crazy. He lives in a hole in the ground, dresses funny, and occasionally eats his assistants, Evesaid. Define crazy. Claire closed her eyes. Okay. I think he wants to put my brain in a jar and wire it intothe machine.

I do hope nobody else here has any other surprises planned, because if you so much as think about harming one another, I will oblige them. This is neutral ground. Violators will be gruesomely and violently shown the error of their ways. Clear?

David was holding Mona steady. I hoped he also had a little attention to spare to keep us unnoticed from the ground; seeing a Dodge Viper do a Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in the desert sky might be a little hard to explain, even for UFO nuts.

The fallow soil of loneliness is fertile ground for self-deception.

I knew that to accomplish my goal I would need to stay present with my discomfort and my fear of the unknown rather than retreat to the false safety of familiar ground.

Might there be common ground for them, a historian and an engineer? He facing backward to the mysteries of the past, she to the future and its dazzling gleam? Then the room relaxed in cheers and babbling, and she turned in his arms to kiss him hard and cling to him, and he thought perhaps it didn't matter that they faced in opposite directions—so long as they faced each other.

Being in space is amazing - it's the reason we all become astronauts - but you also have to love what you're doing on the ground, since that's how you'll spend most of your time.

In India, nothing is accomplished by policy changes alone. Unless people can relate emotionally to something, nothing happens on the ground.

Space is designated as empty, yet its exact nature cannot be verbalized. Similarly the mind is designated as luminously clear, yet its exact nature is empty, with no ground for definition. Thus the self-nature of mind is and has been from the very beginning like that of space.

Ma and Pa stood over Jake as he sat on the ground, catching his breath and still holding Emmie's rag doll.