Quotes of: High-ground Keyword

God's love grounds me while His mystery confounds me. He is a personal yet all-powerful; in me yet around me; creates me yet dies for me.

Eve of Awakening

He can’t ground her if he’s already killed her,” I pointed out when Juliana quoted this to me. “Well, he can, but it wouldn’t have the same impact.

Epic Fail

Life's most obvious truths are the hardest to see but once you've burned everything to the ground they are the only things left standing. André Chevalier

Elizabeth's Bondage Boxed Set

And fetch some straw. We’ll put it between us and the ground. No reason we shouldn’t sleep soft tonight.” “Straw. I love luxury.

The Forbidden Rose

Don't be afraid to grow up, Peter. It's only a trap if you forget how to fly.

Grounded: The Untold Story of Peter Pan & Captain Hook

No way, that would kill my diet for the week. I don't know how you can stand to eat so unhealthy, Quinn. Just consider it an amuse-biatch.

Grounding Quinn

The situation was different in the jungle. Every inch of ground had to be earned, and was done so through much exertion with the blade.

House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City

I am grateful, and would thank the Gods(if there were any to thank) that I have finally mastered this art of forgetting--of murdering the memory.

Higher Ground

Women are the bloodthirsty sex," said Ric sadly. "We get the reputation, but it is only because the women stand behind us, and say, 'Kill it. Squish it.

Hunting Ground

This far north the sun was still up, although very low, riding through the mountains as if looking for something it lost on the ground.

The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild

Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing.

The Art of War

In order to reach for the stars, you must have both feet planted firmly on the ground.

Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

After his dinner, the wolfhound liked to prowl the grounds, sniffing the grass to learn what creatures of field and forest had recently visited. The yard was Merlin's newspaper.

Breathless

To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love. (157)

Confession of a Buddhist Atheist

I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.' And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that.

Maya Angelou

It's not as if our lives are simply divided into light and dark. There's a shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the shadows is what a healthy intelligence does.

After Dark

The State is not the hope of the world; it is an institution grounded in the threat of violence, whether via capital punishments or petty bureaucratic intrusions.

Angels in the Architecture: A Protestant Vision for Middle Earth

The zoo grounds reeked of desolation, but the silence had an undercurrent, a silvery vibe, like the hush of a concert hall just before the first note.

The Apocalypse Gene

Men and women were doing at their unsurpassed when they were together. It was more or less like the sky and the ground; diverse in nature and was miles apart but they complete each other.

After the Storm

Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkness and force it to face them.

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.

The Island of Dr. Moreau