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Quotes About Root

Cliche is at the root of audience dissatisfaction, and like a plague spread through ignorance, it now infects all story media.
~ Robert McKee
Lack of adaptability is the root cause of much trouble in large organizations.
~ Robin McKinley
there is Shadow and there is Substance, and this is the root of all things. Of Substance, there is only Amber, the real city, upon the real Earth, which contains everything. Of Shadow, there is an infinitude of things. Every possibility exists somewhere as a Shadow of the real.
~ Roger Zelazny
Aspen groves blazed like flares on the slopes. Whole copses of hundreds of separate trees, but all joined together underground by a single root. An aspen wood was all one organism. The largest living thing on earth.
~ Lee Child
We dare not brush aside unexplained a horror such as Nazism. If we are to avoid a fate like that of Germany, we must find out what made such a fate possible. We must find out what, at root, is required to turn a country, Germany or any other, into a Nazi dictatorship; and then we must uproot that root. We
~ Leonard Peikoff
History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what may be called thought.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Spiritual counselling is helping people find the deep root of stillness in themselves, which is also a connection to everything else.
~ Jay Woodman
If the majority knew if the root of this evil, then the road to its cure would not be long.
~ Albert Einstein
Our inability to identify rotten fruit on the branches means that we are especially unable to identify a problem at the root.
~ Douglas Wilson
The Disease Within The root of every rebellion (in every culture) must always be identified as pride, and the lust for autonomy. But this central sin manifests itself in different ways in different times, using different methods, concepts, and techniques.
~ Douglas Wilson
Paul is arguing that the nature of the tree has not been changed by the transition from the Levitical administration to the New Covenant. The Root is still Christ. The tree is still Israel—not the nation of Israel, but rather the person of Israel, the Lord Jesus. Christ is our Israel, and Christ is our only Israel. If we abide in Him permanently, we will bear fruit that remains. If we do not abide in Him permanently, we will be removed and burned.
~ Douglas Wilson
The root of every rebellion (in every culture) must always be identified as pride, and the lust for autonomy.
~ Douglas Wilson
Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.
~ Epictetus
Stop talking, stop thinking, and there is nothing you will not understand. Return to the root and you will find Meaning.
~ Jianzhi Sengcan
The final conclusion I've made is that we, the people, must decide what comes next. The events of the past decade have brought to the public fore a fairly widespread recognition that certain speech is beyond the pale, but in nearly every instance I have seen, regulatory and legislative proposals to restrict such speech take the wrong aim, punishing companies (and their workers) for errors, or for not moving fast enough, while failing to do anything to address the problems at the root.
~ Jillian York
If you're a sports fan you realize that when you meet somebody, like a girlfriend, they kind of have to root for your team. They don't have a choice.
~ Jimmy Fallon
If the part of the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, then the whole batch is holy; if the root is holy, so are the branches. ROMANS 11:16
~ Anne Graham Lotz
At its root, 'God of War' was always the promise of adventure.
~ Cory Barlog
CAUSE AND EFFECT The branch exists only to bear the fruit The knowledge of which resides in the root Would a gardener plant and tend the vine Without the promise of the grape and wine? Before this truth let all your reason pause What you thought was effect, is but the cause.
~ Farrukh Dhondy
I have always just experimented, and I come from a very ancient, acoustic root. It was very hard to put a finger on me.
~ Donovan
I think artists are really the root of a tree. They can search for truth or reality in their own way, and the gallery can support them - the outside part of the tree, where it is more about reaching the outside world, connecting with the outside world. That is the role of the gallery, no? Why does the artist have to do that?
~ A. Balasubramaniam
We also have a tendency to root for the fugitive. We're always on the side of the animal being chased.
~ Norman Jewison
Let us follow the facts, not Liberal ideology, and let us target the root cause of terrorism. They are called terrorists.
~ Pierre Poilievre
Freedom from desire is the essential pre-requisite; find out the root of desires, the source from whence they proceed
~ Robert Wolfe