If you think we are going to gain ground by holding the American people hostage, saying that their taxes are at risk, I actually disagree.
It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.
Keep your body grounded on earth, but keep your consciousness high above the clouds
I have a tendency as an actress in general to ground my characters. Even when doing outlandish characters, that's my instinct.
Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.
Birds teach us something very important: To whatever height you rise, you will finally come down to the ground!
We all fly. Once you leave the ground, you fly. Some people fly longer than others.
Of all creatures on earth, in proportion to their size and weight, humans have the smallest footprint on the ground and the largest on the environment.
It's fun when you create a world to inhabit it and see the other characters from grounds eye view.
I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!
Like dry ground welcoming the rain, he let the solitude, silence, and loneliness soak in.
I think the truth of it is that when you get down to actually having to do the things on the ground, there is only one way to do it, and that's in cooperation with the communities.
I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.
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.
When more Americans prefer freebies to freedom, these great United States will become a fertile ground for tyranny.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
Talking with my friends and family every day helps keep me grounded and connected to home. They are the most important things to me.
My theory of change is that there are already millions of people working day in and day out on the ground to deliver on promises on global change. We need to strengthen those institutions and help those people in the field.
The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility.
Government funding that's coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It's really palpable - it's making a huge difference saving lives.