#grounds

I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments; I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#australians #being #carried #grounds #i

I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth. I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish. ↗

— Marcel Marceau

#appears #backgrounds #black #designed #destiny

If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable. ↗

— Edward R. Murrow

#christ #color #coming #considerable #considerable number

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#conviction #emotional #favour #finds #grounds

you just had to be still and have faith, that was the main thing. ↗

— Jim Dodge

#faith

a wife's faithful to her husband, subject to him. it's in the bible. ↗

— Elmore Leonard

#faith

We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars. ↗

— Bill Bruford

#backgrounds #been #could #different #five

Politics is a contest among people of diverse backgrounds and philosophies, advocating different solutions to common problems. The system only works when principled, energetic people participate. ↗

— Bob Ehrlich

#among #backgrounds #common #contest #different

god, they say, is love. and some one's got to pass the word. ↗

— Richard Fariña

#love

the zombies, after all, were pretty slow to appreciate someone other than themselves, and they had been schooled not to denigrate the different. --Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men ↗

— Padgett Powell

#men