#ground

Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#better #civilized #couched #die #flight

I try and have family time, all the time, so you know, I get to see them a lot. And I'm always with my friends, my boyfriend, it helps me keep grounded and kind of sane. ↗

— Nicole Polizzi

#boyfriend #family #friends #get #grounded

Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#because #every #everything #god #great

An easy approach to the walls must be provided against: indeed they should be surrounded by uneven ground, and the roads leading to the gates should be winding and turn to the left from the gates. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#approach #easy #gates #ground #indeed

If you deny that any principles of conduct at all are common to and admitted by all men who try to behave reasonably - well, I don't see how you can have any ethics or any ethical background for law. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

#any #background #behave #common #conduct

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#air #bound #breathe #care #content

My background is a small town with no movie theater. So... I always pictured myself onstage. I went to acting school and learned all the skills. I left early because I did my first movie and discovered that I really loved the minimalistic work with the camera. ↗

— Franka Potente

#acting school #always #background #because #camera

There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#certainly #diminish #early #early work #foreground

The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility, but, short of winning the lottery, the only way to guarantee young people from all backgrounds the opportunity to do better and to raise aspirations is through education. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#aspirations #backgrounds #better #education #guarantee

The Animals were a very separate and dissonant group at the time. We came from different backgrounds, different areas - we didn't even come from the same town, basically. ↗

— Alan Price

#backgrounds #basically #came #come #different