Ground Quotes

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.

Except for a few small presses, most publishers are north of Ground Zero.

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

Ground Zero mosque supporters, doesn't it stab you in the heart, as it does ours, throughout the heartland? Peaceful Muslims, please refudiate.

In my experience, you either have encapsulation and abstraction or you have neither. There is no middle ground.

President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress.

The broader and higher aspects of life are international.... There is a goal towards which all nations gravitate, and there is a common ground upon which all nations meet.

Poetry either pulses with real life or it's just an aborted simulacra. There's no middle ground.

You can't depend on the exposure of a TV screen to keep your feet on the ground and your food tasting delicious. You've got to push yourself.

I'm of the opinion that we're always on holy ground and some days it's just more apparent.

I think that comedians, more than any other type of celebrity, have to keep their humour and keep their feet on the ground. If they start taking themselves too seriously, they're heading for a fall.

We simply must look beyond partisan goals and find common ground as Americans. It is imperative that the Members of Congress recognize that partisanship will not serve the American people.

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.

Farmiga proves as fearless a director as she is an actress. She lights up Higher Ground.

There is no moral middle ground. Indifference is not an option. ... For the sake of our children, I implore each of you to be unyielding and inflexible in your opposition to drugs.

If you would lift me up, you've got to be on higher ground.

Where was the middle ground between a sense of adventure and just plain sense?

If we condone torture, we yield the moral high ground to our enemies and encourage anyone who hates us to stoop to using that subhuman level against us. We reap whatever we sow.

There is no way of finding the middle ground, even with the best intentions of the world. Our most sensible policy is to stall.

Go to find common ground; where you can't, you stand your ground.

Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.

The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.

One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.

In the field of controversy I always pity the moderate party, who stand on the open middle ground exposed to the fire of both sides.

It makes more sense to find out where the middle- and long-term common ground lies.

Each of us has to face the matter — either the Church is true, or it is a fraud. There is no middle ground. It is the Church and kingdom of God, or it is nothing.

Even if we remain flexible, we need ground rules.

Seymour once said that all we do our whole lives is go from one little piece of Holy Ground to the next.

I would prefer just to be an actor for hire rather than struggling with something like Higher Ground, that I had a lot of emotion attached to.

I think as long as you're straight with people, as long as you honor ground rules, as long as you serve your readers, you're going to get the door opened for you.

As they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion... Although just as in hostage negotiations, it's probably best to keep both sides talking to each other.

I don't know about ground rules; but I create the world that arrives with the characters or situation or voice in my head that instigates the piece, whatever form it may take.

Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.

Hillary Clinton is going to find common ground with the Republicans on foreign and military affairs. They both want to enhance the military budget.

Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.

We meet on the common ground of an uncommon age and share out our gifts of dark and light, good and bad, simple joy and not so simple sorrow.

My girlfriend is a great support, and I've got a big circle of mates who keep my feet on the ground.

The devil's happy when the critics run you off.

Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. It’s not so much, what’s the point? It’s more like, what’s the difference?

Every atom in me feels composed of lead. This is what dying is: a pull to the ground.

I want to run. To do what I always do, have always done, for the last five years of my life. Escape, flee into the shadows. But this time, I stand my ground. I'm tired of running.

I went from living in my dad's basement to moving to New York. So I never had that middle ground of easing into adulthood.

No one is exempt from the call to find common ground.

I absolutely think that it's possible for us to find common ground.

On any given night, what allows me to get to that higher ground is the audience.

One is either packed or unpacked. There is no middle ground.

There really is confusion out there. Finding common ground sounds good. But the reality is, a lot of people on all sides have a stake in the fight.

We turn now over the debate of the proposed Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero....The controversy has raised profound questions about religious tolerance and prejudice in the United States.

We've investigated the gun lobby and its political donations and how it spread the Stand Your Ground laws from Florida.

Americans will get along with all other nations willing to get along with us. We will deal fairly with everyone. We will seek common ground, partnership not conflict.