Root Quotes

You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease. And boldness is the root of beauty. Which draws us together.
Boris Pasternak

Life, Beauty, Good

Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Become, Suffering, Whole

Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.
Maynard James Keenan

Religious, Stories, Global

Washington's answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The 'fiscal cliff' process was secretive and sloppy, and the nation's so-called leadership lacked the political courage to address our root problems: joblessness and debt.
Ron Fournier

Leadership, Courage, Crisis

To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named.
Christopher Alexander

Life, Cannot, Spirit

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
Daniel Defoe

Evil, Poverty, Worst

And that's how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt, we root it in fairness. We grow it with opportunity. And we build it together.
Elizabeth Warren

Future, Together, Fairness

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
James Freeman Clarke

Courage, True, Him

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.
Samuel Smiles

Spirit, Growth, Individual

Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.
William Law

Self, State, Tree

Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.
Lech Walesa

Courage, Working, Sense

After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is.
Yo-Yo Ma

Life, After, Wonder

Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct.
Mortimer Adler

Love, View, Instinct

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.
Marilyn French

Women, Men, May

I'm a sensitive guy; I respond to things that make my eyes well up a little bit, or make me root for people. I find the human condition interesting.
Fred Durst

Human, Find, Eyes

Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity.
Karen Armstrong

Faith, Islam, Fighting

The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!
Daniel Dennett

Life, Home, Rock

Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.
Haruki Murakami

Morning, Writing, Through

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
Ludwig von Mises

Evil, Spirit, Weapons

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
C. Northcote Parkinson

Nature, Rather, Takes

But I believe we must not allow feelings of defeat to take root in our hearts.
Daisaku Ikeda

Feelings, Defeat, Hearts

At the root of the shy temperament is a deep fear of social judgment, one so severe it can sometimes be crippling. Introverted people don't worry unduly about whether they'll be found wanting, they just find too much socializing exhausting and would prefer either to be alone or in the company of a select few people.
Jeffrey Kluger

Fear, Alone, Deep

The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs.
Freeman Dyson

Evil, Real, Themselves

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.
Norman Mailer

Work, Bad, Talk

The root of all evil isn't money; rather, it's not having enough money.
Gene Simmons

Money, Evil, Enough

I feel like I'm a fighter. I've fought my whole life to get to where I'm at. I like fight movies. When someone gets knocked down, I like to root for him to succeed.
Rick Schroder

Life, Movies, Fight

I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for your own team. I was puzzled by the fact that people said their own team was better than other teams simply because it was theirs.
Wallace Shawn

Said, Team, Child

Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where; He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there.
Henry Vaughan

Home, Care, Place

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
Henry Fielding

Money, Evil, Often

There is only one way to solve the alleged crisis of the erosion of 'family values.' And that is to get right down to the root cause of the problem.
Mike Royko

Family, Crisis, Down

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