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Quotes About Root

What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.
~ Tullian Tchividjian
War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love, and these have no sure root but in the religion of Jesus Christ.
~ William Ellery Channing
Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
~ Plato
The fruit of wisdom is Christlikeness, peace, humility and love. And, the root of it is faith in Christ as the manifested wisdom of God
~ J. I. Packer
The root of suffering is attachment
~ Gautama Buddha
If your motivation for acquiring money or success comes from a nonsupportive root such as fear, anger, or the need to "prove" yourself, your money will never bring you happiness.
~ T. Harv Eker
A good man regards the root; he fixes the root, and ail else flows out of it. The root is filial piety; the fruit brotherly love.
~ Confucius
Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
Tofu is the root of all evil, and there's only one thing that can change a man's mind, and that's a modified Uzi with an extra-long clip.
~ Robert Downey, Jr.
Let no man pretend to fear sin that does not fear temptation also! These two are too closely united to be separated. He does not truly hate the fruit who delights in the root.
~ John Owen
From the Son of Heaven down to the mass of the people, all must consider the cultivation of the person the root of everything
~ Neal Stephenson
The two forms became intermingled as they struggled and writhed at the brink; then, with the slowness of a great tree that has been cut through at the root, they toppled into the Chasm and disappeared.
~ Neal Stephenson
You heard of Mary Jane?" Root asks. Shaftoe—role model, leader of men—stifles the impulse to say, Heard of her? I've fucked her!
~ Neal Stephenson
I like emotional horror. I don't like horror movies. I hate them. But, if you can make emotional horror movies, I'm in. If I can care and root for the main character, then I'm in.
~ Kevin Williamson
We never learnt the right lessons. We never went to the root of the problem. Once you start politicising religion, you play with fire and get burnt as well. Another lesson we did not learn is that Muslims are not homogenous.
~ Asma Jahangir
the singularity of the point of suspension, the duality of the plane's dimensions, the triadic beginning of pi, the secret quadratic nature of the root, and the unnumbered perfection of the circle itself.
~ Umberto Eco
Could the word 'iron' be the root from which 'irony' is derived?
~ Victor Hugo
Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after it is rarely rewarded by the discovery, but there is an admirable substitute for it... a contented spirit.
~ Lady Marguerite Blessington
I think you cannot root out love entirely. I think where there has been love, there will always be embers, as the remains of a bonfire outlast the flame.
~ Cassandra Clare
Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.
~ Gilbert Parker
actually translates to "peace," because in Arabic it is based on the same root word, salam. That word, salam, can be found in the traditional greeting assalamualaikum ("Peace be upon you"). But as
~ Glenn Beck
Whatever begins to exist has a cause.
~ Glenn Meade
The root of oppression is the loss of memory.
~ Gloria Steinem
We seem to be the only species on earth capable of killing for pleasure. The root of evil is not hate. It is ignorance.
~ Gordana Biernat