Grounded Quotes - Page 18

• Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.

  Charles Bukowski

  Moral, Human Experience, Humans

  Charles Bukowski (2007). “Women”, Ecco

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• Stay in the Word. The moment you start letting go of that, you're on the road to compromise. Stay grounded, remain pure, keep your eyes fixed on Jesus.

  Adam Young

  Letting Go, Jesus, Eye

  "Interview: Owl City's Adam Young and His God-Inspired Music". Interview with Josephine Vivaldo, www.christianpost.com. June 25, 2011.

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• Today I'm a more solid, grounded person, positioned to encourage women. I have learned to be molded by God into the person He wants. I want to help and encourage others to be the best they can be.

  Kim Alexis

  Want, Today, Helping

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• See, indeed, that your daughter is thoroughly grounded and experienced in household duties; but take care, through religion and poetry, to keep her heart open to heaven.

  Jean Paul

  Mom, Daughter, Heart

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• Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer.

  H. L. Mencken

  Government, America, Psychology

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• Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Narrative, Eloquence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.47, Harvard University Press

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• Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back.

  John Barth

  Ships, Sometimes, Monsoons

  John Barth (1984). “The Friday Book: Essays and Other Nonfiction”

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• Though colour may appear at first a part of painting merely mechanical, yet it still has its rules, and those grounded upon that presiding principle which regulates both the great and the little in the study of a painter.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Principles, May, Littles

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1837). “Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait”, p.52

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• There can be no truly moral choice unless that choice is made in freedom; similarly, there can be no really firmly grounded and consistent defense of freedom unless that defense is rooted in moral principle.

  Murray Rothbard

  Choices, Liberty, Principles

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• People who practice Zen correctly are not spaced-out or unrealistic. They are balanced and grounded.

  Frederick Lenz

  Practice, People, Introduction

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• I dont know how the other senators see me. I hope they see me as a farmer. Thats really what I am. But I dont think they see me on a tractor or fixing equipment. I hope they see me grounded, as somebody who has common sense.

  Jon Tester

  Thinking, Common Sense, Fixing

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• I look around and see the things I have, and I remember not having them. That is one thing that keeps me grounded. I'm definitely the same person I was. . . . I never lose me, I never lose the real person.

  Mariah Carey

  Real, Looks, Remember

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• I like to think I'm very grounded. I'm very grounded in my family. I'm very grounded in my community.

  Gerry Adams

  Thinking, Community, My Family

  "Gerry Adams: 'I'm happy with who I am ... it's very important to be a subversive'" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2011.

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• Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my career and look out for my best interests.

  Larenz Tate

  Mother, Father, Careers

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• The whole basis for our relationship with God is rooted and grounded in grace, in that which is not earned.

  R. C. Sproul

  Grace, Our Relationship, Relationship With God

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• Early on everyone should do, every time they do a big film, they should do a little film. It really does keep you grounded.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Doe, Littles, Film

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• Max: "Fang! This is a huge break! Of course we should go check it out!" Fang: "But we're grounded." Max and Fang: (stare at each other for a second and burst out laughing)

  James Patterson

  Laughing, Max, Break

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• An iceberg is water striving to be land; a mountain, especially a Himalaya, especially Everest, is land's attempt to metamorphose into sky; it is grounded in flight, the earth mutated--nearly--into air, and become, in the true sense, exalted. Long before she ever encountered the mountain, Allie was aware of its brooding presence in her soul.

  Salman Rushdie

  Air, Land, Sky

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

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• You... were created to be loved. So for you to live as if you were unloved is a limitation, not the other way around... Living unloved is like clipping a bird's wing and removing its ability to fly... A bird is not defined by being grounded but by his ability to fly. Remember this, humans are defined not by their limitations, but by the intentions I have for them; not by what they seem to be, but by everything it means to be created in my image. Love is NOT the limitation; love is the flying. I AM love.

  William P. Young

  Mean, Love Is, Wings

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• Superstar lawyers and math whizzes and software entrepreneurs appear at first blush to lie outside ordinary experience. But they don't. They are products of history and community, of opportunity and legacy. Their success is not exceptional or mysterious. It is grounded in a web of advantages and inheritances, some deserved, some not, some earned, some just plain lucky - but all critical to making them who they are. The outlier, in the end, is not an outlier at all.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Lying, Math, Opportunity

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• Puck flapped up to the happy couple. "Wait a minute! You have to ask someone to marry you? No one told me that! I thought you just hit them with a club and dragged them back to your cave!" Henry put his arm around Sabrina. "You're officially grounded from ever getting married." "Thank you," Sabrina whispered sincerely.

  Michael Buckley

  Couple, Waiting, Caves

  Michael Buckley (2012). “The Sisters Grimm: Book Nine: The Council of Mirrors”, p.44, Abrams

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• Spirituality emerged as a fundamental guidepost in Wholeheartedness. Not religiosity but the deeply held belief that we are inextricably connected to one another by a force greater than ourselves--a force grounded in love and compassion. For some of us that's God, for others it's nature, art, or even human soulfulness. I believe that owning our worthiness is the act of acknowledging that we are sacred. Perhaps embracing vulnerability and overcoming numbing is ultimately about the care and feeding of our spirits.

  Brené Brown

  Art, Believe, Compassion

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  Our life is all grounded and rooted in love, and without love we may not live.

  Julian of Norwich

  Life, May, Our Lives

  Julian of Norwich (2013). “SHOWING OF LOVE”, p.117, Lulu.com

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• A well-grounded assurance is always attended with three fair handmaids: love, humility and holy joy.

  Thomas Brooks

  Truth, Humility, Joy

  Thomas Brooks (1860). “Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks: Being a Collection of Sentences, Illustrations, and Quaint Sayings, from the Works of that Renowned Puritan, Thomas Brooks”, p.108

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• There also exists another alliance - at first glance a strange one, a surprising one - but if you think about it, in fact, one which is well grounded and easy to understand. This is the alliance between our Communist leaders and your capitalists. This alliance is not new. ... We observe continuous and steady support by the businessmen of the West of the Soviet Communist leaders.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Thinking, Communist Leaders, Support

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