Groundless Quotes

#1. Groundless superstition ill befits an army; valor is the only deity that rules in the warrior's breast.

Silius Italicus

#2. Nothing more alarming occurred than a fear, on Mrs. Allen's side, of having once left her clogs behind her at an inn, and that fortunately proved to be groundless.

Jane Austen

#3. We must do the work to prove our fears groundless, otherwise it is our fears that will gain ground and our lives will be spent in their service.

Guy Finley

#4. I think a Person who is thus terrified with the Imagination of Ghosts and Spectres much more reasonable, than one who contrary to the Reports of all Historians sacred and profane, ancient and modern, and to the Traditions of all Nations, thinks the Appearance of Spirits fabulous and groundless.

Joseph Addison

#5. There are occasions when the general belief of the people, even though it be groundless, works its effect as sure as truth itself.

Friedrich Schiller

#6. As a way of life, a middle path is an ongoing task of responsiveness and risk, grounded on a groundless ground. Its twists and turns are as turbulent and unpredictable as life itself.

Stephen Batchelor

#7. Once in a while, groundless melancholy would darken my face, a dull and incomprehensible nostalgia for times never experienced would invade me.

Clarice Lispector

#8. Mariah Carey is my favorite singer because her voice sounds utterly groundless. It's not even a human voice; it almost sounds mechanical.

Grimes

#9. All knowledge that is not the real product of observation, or of consequences deduced from observation, is entirely groundless and illusory.

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

#10. He is often deeply enough involved in it, though he colours his groundless claims by adopting popular language and announcing everything as 'mere probability', 'rational conjecture', or 'analogy'.36

Anonymous

#11. But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.

John Perry Barlow

#12. A few people have privately voiced fears that on coming back to office I shall go after them. These fears are groundless. There will be no paying off old scores. The past is prologue.

Muhammadu Buhari

#13. Take stock of your fears now and see how many of them are senseless. If you are honest with yourself you will probably find most of them are groundless.

Dale Carnegie

#14. Warin's brow lifted in thought. 'I should think that's when worries are easiest to erase, when they are groundless. Bringing them to light often helps us to see they were merely a shadow, and never anything of substance at all.

Nicole Sager

#15. Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.

Thomas Sowell

#16. There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

Mary Wortley Montagu

#17. My hopes for a relationship with her were wholly unreal, whereas my ongoing misery, and frustration, were an all-too-horrible reality. Was groundless, hopeless romantic obsession any way to waste the rest of my life?

Donna Tartt

#18. Currents of energy shimmer through our bodies. Like shooting stars, we rocket through spacious stillness. But this silent, unmoving background is nothing like the granite ideas we use trying to take root in groundless soil.

Anthony Lawlor

#19. God is not honored by groundless love. In fact, there is no such thing. If we do not know anything about God, there is nothing in our mind to awaken love. If love does not come from knowing God, there is no point in calling it love for God.

John Piper

#20. Insofar we are death-bound, existence is urgent and frightful. Insofar as are groundless, it is vertiginous and dreamlike. Insofar as we are insatiable, it is unquiet and tormented.

Roberto Unger

#21. The hopes of zeal are not wholly groundless.

Samuel Johnson

#22. I concern myself with Venezuela. However, some rightwing movements are transforming me into a pawn in the domestic politics of their countries, by making statements that are groundless.

Hugo Chavez

#23. To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most instances unwise ... from a fear which may afterwards turn out groundless, you lost the good that lay within your grasp.

Francesco Guicciardini

#24. The world's full of groundless ill will. I'll never understand it, you'll never understand it, but it exists all the same.

Haruki Murakami

#25. While it is important on the one hand that laxness in dealing with sin be avoided, it is equally important on the other to shun harsh judgment and groundless suspicion.

Ellen G. White

#26. Opinionum enim commenta delet dies; naturae judicia confirmat.
Time destroys the groundless conceits of men; it confirms decisions founded on reality.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#27. I felt myself in a sticky spot as a daughter and desperately needed a third party, such as a doctor, to address his declining function and end-of-life considerations of safety, comfort, and care management.

Lisa J. Shultz

#28. The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court.

Ralph G. Neas

#29. The Wilhelm Gustloff was pregnant with lost souls conceived of war. They would crowd into her belly and she would give birth to their freedom.

Ruta Sepetys

#30. A battered wife is a married woman until she gets a divorce. Or until she kills the bastard.

John Grisham

#31. Brains aren't designed to get results; they go in directions. If you know how the brain works you can set your own directions. If you don't, then someone else will.

Richard Bandler

#32. I attend Trinity United Church of Christ, and my pastor [was] Jeremiah Wright.

Barack Obama

#33. The world is begging for you to lead.

Seth Godin

#34. In heaven and on earth, pride or self-exaltation is the very gateway to hell.

Andrew Murray

#35. Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.

Frank Zappa

#36. Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.

Damian Lewis

#37. She's sad a lot. She's sad in the way Laura wears glasses and Max has freckles and Beth is retarded. There's no reason, it's just the way it is.

Rachel Simon

#38. Since when has outright denial of truth become a Nigerian factor?

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