Quotes of Groundwork - somelinesforyou

“ Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone — but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. ”

- Bette Davis

“ Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? ”

- Bible

“ After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases. ”

- Mickey Mantle

“ Self-esteem is the basis of any democracy. ”

- Gloria Steinem

“ We've got a lot of preparation to do. ”

- John Phillips

“ We've got a lot of momentum, a lot of confidence we're doing the right stuff because the athletes are showing it, especially in the big championships. ”

- Bode Miller

“ True humility — the basis of the Christian system — is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ One does what one can, not what one cannot. ”

- Agatha Christie

“ Let's dare to be ourselves, for we do that better than anyone else. ”

- Shirley Briggs

“ Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions. ”

- Laurence Sterne

“ Wonder is the basis of worship. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ Self-observation is the groundwork for self-knowledge, and it is self-knowledge that effects change. ”

- Elizabeth O’Connor

“ The groundwork of all happiness is health. ”

- Leigh Hunt

“ Be Prepared… the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise. ”

- Robert Baden Powell

“ We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture. ”

- Milan Kundera

“ Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone — but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. ”

- Bette Davis

“ Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? ”

- Bible

“ After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases. ”

- Mickey Mantle

“ Self-esteem is the basis of any democracy. ”

- Gloria Steinem

“ We've got a lot of preparation to do. ”

- John Phillips

“ We've got a lot of momentum, a lot of confidence we're doing the right stuff because the athletes are showing it, especially in the big championships. ”

- Bode Miller

“ True humility — the basis of the Christian system — is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ One does what one can, not what one cannot. ”

- Agatha Christie

“ Let's dare to be ourselves, for we do that better than anyone else. ”

- Shirley Briggs

“ Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions. ”

- Laurence Sterne

“ Wonder is the basis of worship. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ Self-observation is the groundwork for self-knowledge, and it is self-knowledge that effects change. ”

- Elizabeth O’Connor

“ The groundwork of all happiness is health. ”

- Leigh Hunt

“ Be Prepared… the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise. ”

- Robert Baden Powell

“ We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture. ”

- Milan Kundera
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