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Quotes About Root

Oh to be blissfully ignorant, he thought. But in truth there was nothing he hated more in this life. Ignorance was the root of every manmade evil he had ever encountered.
~ Steven Savile
I do not support the idea of defunding police departments. I believe that it does nothing to solve the root problems we must address and it makes our communities less safe.
~ Mikie Sherrill
In college, I had a course in Latin, and one day the word divorce came up. I always figured it came from some root that meant divide. In truth, it comes from divertere, which means to divert. I believe that. All divorce does is divert you, taking you away from everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you wanted and steering you into all kinds of other stuff, like discussions about your mother's girdle and whether she should marry someone else.
~ Mitch Albom
Biologists would argue that at root the quest for beauty is driven by the genes pressing to be passed on and making their current habitat as inviting for visitors as possible.
~ Nancy L. Etcoff
And that is how Goodwin problems were always fixed. Fix them on the surface but don't go to the root, always ignoring the elephant in the room. I think that morning was when I realized I'd grown up with an elephant in every room of my life. It was practically our family pet.
~ Cecelia Ahern
And that is how the problems were always fixed. Fix them on the surface but don't go to the root, always ignoring the elephant in the room. I think that morning was when I realized I'd grown up with an elephant in every room. It was practically our family pet.
~ Cecelia Ahern
The most common power chord in metal is the root/fifth, but root/third diads are also worth checking out.
~ Dimebag Darrell
Frenzy destroys our inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.
~ Thomas Merton
Each day the mythical return Enzian dreamed of seems less possible. Once it was necessary to know uniforms, insignia, airplane markings, to observe boundaries. But by now too many choices have been made. The single root lost, way back there in the May desolation. Each bird has his branch now, and each one is the Zone.
~ Thomas Pynchon
I thought of the Old English root of teach — tæcan , like token, and saw the token being passed like a visible object from teacher to pupil.
~ Kathryn Hulme
This scripture says the love of money is the very root of Satan's operation. We can cut him off at the very root and destroy his base with the love of giving. Glory to God! Is
~ Kenneth Copeland
The love of money is the root of all evil. It is not wrong to have money; it is wrong for money to have you. It is wrong for money to be your master.
~ Kenneth E. Hagin
Body practice is the root of spiritual practice. When we calm the body, the mind can expand without limit.
~ Kenneth S. Cohen
Since when is public safety the root password to the Constitution?
~ C. D. Tavares
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
The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The love of money is the root of all virtue.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Paul saw the root of all wickedness in irreligion
~ George Eldon Ladd
The lack of money is the root of all evil, Mr. Meadows.
~ Ilona Andrews
It's a cutting," I repeated. "There is no root." Tony swore. "It's a fucking inn, not an African violet.
~ Ilona Andrews
Ignorance is the root of all evil.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Along this tree From root to crown Ideas flow up And vetoes down.
~ Peter Drucker
There is one basic cause of all effects.
~ Giordano Bruno
The secret of living is to find ... the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.
~ Luigi Pirandello