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Objection!" Metz shouts. Grounds?" the judge asks. Well...he's my witness! -- Jodi Picoult
It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belongto his Neighbour. -- Joseph Addison
All travellers who had preceded me into the Barren Grounds had relied on the abundant game, and in consequence suffered dreadful hardships; in some cases even starved to death. -- Ernest Thompson Seton
The day after we had pitched a game, it was our duty to stand at the gate, and afterwards to count the tickets. I remember counting 30,000 tickets one day at the Polo Grounds in New York. -- Kid Nichols
She looked back to see Sam standing there at the edge of the strip of sunlight inside Common Grounds, staring after her with an expression on his face like he'd lost his best- his only friend. -- Rachel Caine
Family is what grounds you. -- Angelina Jolie
Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics. -- Carl Jung
No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason. -- Livy
No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds. -- Livy
Curiosity is a quest for wisdom on untamed grounds. -- Wes Fesler
The only grounds for divorce in California are marriage. -- Cher
Democracies are poor breeding grounds for terrorism and war. -- Adam Schiff
...cities are murky places - hatching grounds for monsters... -- John Geddes
He who have two grounds of trust is lost! -- Charles Spurgeon
It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles. -- Blaise Pascal
Are there grounds now and then for an unironic smile? -- Robert Adams
People are reluctant to cite boredom as grounds for divorce. -- Mason Cooley
When we care about people, we sometimes overstep our grounds. -- C.C. Hunter
Vanity is so superficial. It doesn't provide the grounds for progress. -- Ishmael Butler
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds. -- William James
If you call your opponent a politician, it's grounds for libel. -- Mark Russell
If words had flavors, hers would be bitter almonds and coffee grounds. -- Jodi Picoult
Being in a relationship grounds you. You feel a sense of home. -- Jonathan Knight
If it isn't a success, that still wouldn't be grounds for divorce. -- Geena Davis
Being in a relationship grounds you. You feel a sense of home, -- Jonathan Knight
Medicine grounds me, it centers me, that's why I continue to do it. -- Mehmet Oz
It is not possible to have reasonable grounds for not believing in miracles. -- Blaise Pascal
One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself -- Mark Twain
Students deserve our care and concern on the grounds of principle, not personality. -- Marshall Gregory
There are deaths in public places on the grounds that the victim is gay. -- Ian Mckellen
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. -- Thomas Jefferson
There are excellent public interest grounds to have a search engine whose rankings are transparent. -- Mitch Kapor
War is indefensible on every grounds, military and economic and diplomatic and also on moral. -- Eugene McCarthy
What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions. -- John Ruskin
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents." -- Thomas Jefferson
The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar. -- Tanith Lee
The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art. -- Saul Bellow
No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature. -- A. A. Milne
I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer -- Douglas Adams
I prioritize people. This grounds me and reminds me of my place in the world. -- Jennifer Widerstrom
and where men build on false grounds, the more they build, the greater is the ruine -- Thomas Hobbes
Some women get divorces on the grounds of incompatibility; others, on just the first two syllables. -- Evan Esar
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others. -- Bertolt Brecht
Make thy books thy companions. Let thy cases and shelves be thy pleasure grounds and gardens. -- Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon
On the grounds of prestigious musical organizations that come and go, New York has the edge. -- Jeffrey Tate
Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting. -- William Wordsworth
We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds. -- Jean Rostand
Skepticism is not a denial of belief, but rather a denial of rational grounds for belief. -- William Pepperell Montague
Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. -- Frances Wright
I spent most of my youth in Manchester, in clubs and football grounds and the Manchester Apollo. -- John Simm
If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance. -- Richard Wagner
I do feel like at the end of anger I have to have something that grounds it. -- Ted Leo
What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts. -- Thomas Henry Huxley
Persecution on racial and religious grounds has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty. -- Nicholas Murray Butler
For there are strong grounds for thinking that, in the evolution of thought, magic has preceded religion . -- James G. Frazer
I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me. -- Joseph Epstein
There must have been good grounds for belief in witchcraft; otherwise Parliament would not have legislated against it. -- Edward Coke
Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium. -- Cyril Connolly
Poetry must find ways of breaking distance.... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds. -- Giannina Braschi
No matter the good news anywhere else, these nuke-hungry rogue states will provide grounds for bad-mouthing Bush foreign policy. -- Rich Lowry
I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England. -- Dinah Sheridan
Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation. -- David Quammen
It's fun when you create a world to inhabit it and see the other characters from grounds eye view. -- Mike White
I mean, there's a hell of a lot of grounds for protest, but you don't do it through music. -- Chico Hamilton
Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution. -- William Butler Yeats
In Scotland football hooliganism has been met by banning alcohol from grounds but in England this solution has been circumnavigated -- Wallace Mercer
You instantly become less selfish. You can't be the biggest person in the world anymore-they are. [Motherhood] really grounds you. -- Keri Russell
When I couldn't get ahold of cigarettes, I'd roll coffee grounds into typing paper and smoke that and then vomit. -- Tig Notaro
Hannibal Burress is my polar opposite in energy. I can be crazy, and he grounds the 'Eric Andre Show.' -- Eric Andre
Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan. -- Abraham Lincoln
We as songwriters are in the same position as a professional fisherman. Our fishing grounds are kind of fished out. -- Jimmy Webb
The idea of abolishing Income Tax is to me highly attractive, both on other grounds & because it tends to public economy. -- William E. Gladstone
The grounds of your justification are the perfect works of Jesus Christ. We're saved by works, but they're not our own. -- R. C. Sproul
Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media. -- George Lucas
Specifically, Iâ??d like to debate whether cannibalism ought to be grounds for leniency in murders, since itâ??s less wasteful. -- Bill Watterson
They remember when their parents went out there, had picnics on the Beck's Mill grounds. It was the nostalgia of it. -- Larry Nelson
Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking. -- George Eliot
Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it. -- William Shenstone
Being President is a little like being the grounds-keeper at a cemetery: there's plenty of people below you but no one's listening. -- William J. Clinton
There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature. -- Stephen Hawking
The ladder of leadership can only stand firm on the grounds of integrity. Any other ground makes it unstable till it falls. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it. -- William Shenstone
Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race. -- James Earl Jones
When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble. -- John Crowe Ransom
We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves, that there may be grounds enough for friendship. -- Henry David Thoreau
If you are honest, truthful, and transparent, people trust you. If people trust you, you have no grounds for fear, suspicion or jealousy. -- Dalai Lama
CIf you are honest, truthful, and transparent, people trust you. If people trust you, you have no grounds for fear, suspicion or jealousy. -- Dalai Lama XIV
If you are honest, truthful, and transparent, people trust you. If people trust you, you have no grounds for fear, suspicion or jealousy. -- Dalai Lama
When any practice is proposed and enforced as a binding duty, we have a right to examine the grounds of the alleged obligation. -- Adoniram Judson
Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare. -- Charles Krauthammer
It has always been the artist who realizes that the future is the present and uses his work to prepare the grounds for it -- Marshall McLuhan
It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts. -- Thomas Huxley
A man really and practically looking onwards to an immortal life, on whatever grounds, exhibits to us the human soul in an enobled attitude. -- William Whewell
I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion has anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds. -- Bertrand Russell
I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese art museum. -- Larry Ellison
I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment. -- William Golding
Even if animal experiments did result in a cure for AIDS, of which there is no chance, I'd be against it on moral grounds. -- Ingrid Newkirk
I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world. -- A. J. Jacobs
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. -- Bertrand Russell
Our connection to nature grounds us, it makes us more spiritually aware. We must keep the legacy of nature materially alive for future generations. -- Nelly Furtado
Any deep-rooted prejudice against others, such as homophobia or misogyny, would be grounds for rejecting a candidate for the priesthood, but not their sexual orientation. -- Timothy Radcliffe
It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on the basis of social consensus and enable transformation on stable grounds. -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
I'm quite squeamish, really. I'm philistine and unsophisticated - not because of my great discerning palate but other reasons. Some are moral grounds, some texture. -- Ricky Gervais
The doctor who willingly accepts destroying life will have no grounds on which to object if the state should compel that doctor to destroy life, -- Mildred Fay Jefferson
I will force Hillary Clinton to fight on the grounds of her lies and lack of trustworthiness, whether that's about e-mails, and servers and Benghazi. -- Carly Fiorina
Idea-assassins rush forward to kill any new suggestion on the grounds of its impracticality, while defending whatever now exists as practical, no matter how absurd. -- Alvin Toffler
Scientists should not do animal testing if there is any alternative, but subject to that, I would support it on grounds of the medical benefits. -- David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville
Muslim leaders should ask themselves what exactly their relationship is to a political movement that encourages young men to kill and maim on religious grounds. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Dialogue is a non-confrontational communication, where both partners are willing to learn from the other and therefore leads much farther into finding new grounds together -- Scilla Elworthy
Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success. -- Patricia Ireland
Psychopaths are social predators, and like all predators, they are looking for feeding grounds. Wherever you get power, prestige and money, you will find them. -- Robert D. Hare
Strikes and boycotting are akin to war, and can be justified only on grounds analogous to those which justify war, viz., intolerable injustice and oppression. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
They who set an example make a highway. Others follow the example, because it is easier to travel on a highway than over untrodden grounds. -- Horace Mann
We must leave our pets at home, when we go into the street, and meet men on broad grounds of good meaning and good sense. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith is not a blind, irrational conviction. In order to believe, we must know what we believe, and the grounds on which our faith rests. -- Charles Hodge
Shere Khan, the Big One, has shifted his hunting grounds. He will hunt among these hills for the next moon, so he has told me. -- Rudyard Kipling
In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage. -- Robert Anderson
On Jesus' rock, my life abounds; all other floors are slippery grounds. His love for me, is mercy band; any other love is sinking sand. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say that he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe. -- Thomas Huxley
Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one. -- Samuel Butler

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