#ground

The danger I faced was not accepted as reasonable grounds for deferring my tax payments, as authorities, who despite being told all of this, still chose to pursue action against me, as opposed to finding an alternative solution. ↗

— Lauryn Hill

#action #against #alternative #authorities #being

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#begin #care #environment #extracted #feeding

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

— Albert Einstein

#forever #ground #honor #master #must

The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#faith #god #ground #knowledge #ultimate

If he had listened to some of his advisors and had tried to make the Marshall Plan a political dumping ground for unqualified politicians, it couldn't have been a success. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#dumping #ground #had #his #listened

That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment. ↗

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

#ahead #convincing #following #ground #leadership

When drugs came around I sampled them just like anybody else but I never became dependent creatively on drugs; like various cartoonists in the underground never did anything if they weren't stoned, That was the prerequisite for sitting down and drawing. ↗

— Bill Griffith

#anything #around #became #came #cartoonists

We didn't do anything wrong, but among the lessons learned, given the magnitude of the problems we now face in Afghanistan, a major U.S. force on the ground would convince the world we were in for the long-haul recovery of a country devastated by 21 years of warfare. ↗

— Alexander Haig

#among #anything #convince #country #devastated

I really look up to actors like Gwyneth Paltrow and Cate Blanchett who have a strong background in theatre. ↗

— Alexa Vega

#gwyneth #gwyneth paltrow #i #like #look

Whenever the debate moves on to hard numbers - our deficit with Europe, our surplus with the rest of the world, our Brussels budget contributions, the tiny part of our economy dependent on sales to the EU, the vast part subjected to EU regulation - Euro-enthusiasts quickly shift their ground and start harrumphing about influence. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#brussels #budget #contributions #debate #deficit