Quotes About Root

When my team is playing, I pretend my father is in the grandstand and think, 'would he be enjoying watching this team?' And that's always been at the root of everything I have done.

Duplication may be the root of all evil in software. Many principles and practices have been created for the purpose of controlling or eliminating it.

Duplication may be the root of all evil in software.

The root of the Latin word for envy, invidia, means "to look through, to probe with the eyes like a dagger.

The love of money is the root of all evil." The other said, "The lack of money is the root of all evil.

For example, one dad would say, "The love of money is the root of all evil." The other said, "The lack of money is the root of all evil.

Doctrine once sown strikes deep its root, and respect for antiquity influences all men.

Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.

I am trying to convince myself that failure is interesting. I look the word up in the American Heritage Dictionary to find its earliest incarnation, but it has always been just 'failure.' There's no Indo-European root meaning originally 'to dare' or 'mercy' or 'hummingbird' to make of the whole mess a mysterious poem. I can find no other fossilized remains in the word. Humility comes along on its own dime.

The news may encourage us to imagine that the roots of a nation's problems have their fundamental origins in criminality at the top and yet, though there is clearly a role for targeting individual rotten apples, there is an equally vital task in directing attention to the colourless yet far larger institutional failures that lie concealed within our political and social arrangements.

The only way you will ever permanently take control of your financial life is to dig deep and fix the root problem.

Faith is the root of all blessings. Believe, and you shall be saved; believe, and your needs must be satisfied; believe, and you cannot but be comforted and happy.

We need to cultivate in our own hearts the same hatred of sin God has. Hatred of sin as sin, not just as something disquieting or defeating to ourselves, but as displeasing to God, lies at the root of all true holiness.

Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue. And so pride, or the loss of this humility, is the root of every sin and evil.

Humility is the only soil in which the graces root; the lack of humility is the sufficient explanation of every defect and failure. Humility is not so much a grace or virtue along with others; it is the root of all, because it alone takes the right attitude before God, and allows Him as God to do all.

The root of anger is the perception that something has been taken. Something is owed you, and now a debt to debtor relationship has been established.

Most words in the Semitic languages can be completely defined in terms of root and pattern.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

It affects every aspect of our lives, is often said to be the root of all evil, and the analysis of the world that it makes possible - what we call 'the economy' - is so important to us that economists have become the high priests of our society. Yet, oddly, there is absolutely no consensus among economists about what money really is.

Love is the grand prize and the garbage heap. Love is a spiritual root canal and the only thing that makes life worth living. Love is a little taste of always and a big bite of nothing. And love is everything in between these extremes.

Was that at the root of her antipathy? An assumption that newsworthiness meant invulnerability?

6:10) [T]he love of money is the root of all evil….

The wild ingrafted olive and the root Are withered, and a winter drifts to where The Pepperpot, ironic rainbow, spans Charles River and its scales of scorched-earth miles. I saw my city in the Scales, the pans Of judgment rising and descending. Piles Of dead leaves char the air— And I am a red arrow on this graph Of Revelations.