Ground Quotes

There's a tendency in politics to attribute bad motivation much too quickly, and the sooner you attribute bad motivation to someone you disagree with, the harder it is to find some common ground to make some progress that would give people confidence that you got it more right than wrong.

When he hit a ground ball to you, you knew you had to make a good throw because he was going to be running.

When I crossed Asia with my friend Peter Fleming, we spoke to no one but each other during many months, and we covered exactly the same ground. Nevertheless my journey differed completely from his.

Such fire was not by water to be drowned, nor he his nature changed by changing ground.

I think that my work is my attempt, I suppose, is to try and become a piece of connective tissue. I'm trying to communicate with people here and in America - in rich countries - about what I see on the ground in badly affected areas.

So, I created these creatures called The Frightened Ones which in the film you see do have mask like kind of heads and they run beneath the ground to hide. Which is what in fact we did during the war.

People, y'know, they either love us or they hate us; there's no middle ground.

I lay on the ground, but then I can't reach - I don't want to take my foot out of the tub - but I've got to call somebody because I've got to get a band-aid or something to stop the bleeding.

He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.

I don't want to make that sound like I'm preaching from a mountain top when I say you have to give your family everything, because I know it's hard for people. I'm lucky to be in a position where you can establish those ground rules and make it that way.

Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveller.

When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.

For me, relationships are the real action movies. Bombs are exploding every day and the kitchen is Ground Zero.

Coming down under a parachute is quite different as well. You hit the ground pretty hard, but all the systems work very well to keep it from hurting, so it doesn't even hurt when you hit. It was a great experience to be able to do both.

Conservatives and liberals can find common ground.

Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Actors that came up in the '50s and '60s, they had the theater, and television was in its infancy.

If you get a wrinkle, I don't feel that's indicative of your losing ground. That's ridiculous.

After I did the first Die Hard I said I'd never do another, same after I did the second one and the third. The whole genre was running itself into the ground.

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

We need to seek wise leaders who will seek common ground among Americans instead of dividing us further for political gain. As citizens, we must embrace those who embrace ideas, thoughtfulness, civility and kindness to others no matter what their political beliefs.

It would have been impossible to get 'The Verdict' off the ground without Paul Newman obviously, but today without any star, kind of a dramatic piece would be very tough.

To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.

Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.

Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish.

The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong.

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.

I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.