Ground Quotes
While their methods differ radically, artists and physicists share the desire to investigate the ways the interlocking pieces of reality fit together. This is the common ground upon which they meet.
The older I get, the more convinced I am that the space between people who are trying their best to understand each other is hallowed ground.
Compassion gives us a common ground to stand on regardless of your faith background. It gives us a chance to stand shoulder-to-shoulder rather than go fist-to-fist with somebody.
Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained.
An e-mail from a reader says that liberals like to take the moral high ground, even though their own moral relativism means that there is no moral high ground.
More than a rejection or dissolution of the past, avant-garde originality is conceived as a literal origin, a beginning from ground zero, a birth.
The trouble with leaving your feet on the ground is you never get to take your pants off.
That's how hatred is created: two different groups, each insisting they're on the moral high ground
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
Collaboration is when magic is made with more than one person. It's when more than one person finds common ground on the same page. That's collaboration.
You stand your ground and you perform your art. That's what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.
I'll continue on the path I've been taking, feet on the ground, describing people's lives, describing people's emotions, writing from the standpoint of the ordinary people.
How amazing it is to be alive Anyone who lives and breathes and puts both feet on the ground, What possible reason could he have for envying the gods
In the minds of most men, the kingdom of opinion is divided into three territories,--the territory of yes, the territory of no, and a broad, unexplored middle ground of doubt.
If you can walk with your head in the clouds and keep your feet on the ground, you can make a million dollars in the NBA.
If you go deep enough into any faith tradition, you find the common ground with all faith traditions.
The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground
Aim for a star, and keep your sights high! With a heart full of faith within, your feet on the ground and your eyes in the sky.
Agree to these ground rules: Be curious, conversational and real. Don't persuade or interrupt. Listen, listen, listen.
The Greeks, who knew everything, understood that without the orgy there is no middle ground between bedlam and Toronto ... we need the healing grace of the orgy in this country.
President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress.
Larry wanted us to reposition the tower. We wouldn't, and won't. He's been holding back our fees. We want to get paid. And that's it. It'll get solved and we'll carry on with planning Ground Zero.
In my experience, you either have encapsulation and abstraction or you have neither. There is no middle ground.
Ground Zero mosque supporters, doesn't it stab you in the heart, as it does ours, throughout the heartland? Peaceful Muslims, please refudiate.
I hope my head doesn't get very big. I'm just going to keep my feet on the ground, stick to friends and family and try to lead a normal life.
But how do you wait for heaven And who has that much time And how do you keep your feet on the ground When you know, that you were born, you were born to fly
Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod, They have left unstained, what there they found,- Freedom to worship God.
The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.
You can't change your attitude because you're the champion. I've always kept my feet on the ground and never wanted to change.
I think the most effective forms of critique are ones that establish a common ground for people to occupy, and then appeal to the best nature of people on that common ground.
We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don't. There is no middle ground.
Memories of the last nine years have turned Ground Zero from a site of horror, to a reminder of grief, to an occasion for ludicrous artistic posturing - and now to something very close to parody.
You know that things are not going well when you lose the moral high ground to a TMZ reporter.
If the Southeast represents the new battlefield in the war on meth, then Tennessee clearly is at ground zero.
Some people never get their feet on the ground, They're either sitting in a chair or theyre laying down.
Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants on.
Stand your ground means stand your ground. It doesn't mean chase after somebody who's turned their back.
Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts.