Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule…

Man's life is thought, And he, despite his terror, cannot cease Ravening through century after century, Ravening, raging, and uprooting that he may come…

— William Butler Yeats

The translation of the Veda will hereafter tell to a great extent on the fate of India and on the growth of millions of…

— Max Muller

Tragedy blows through your life like a tornado, uprooting everything, creating chaos. You wait for the dust to settle, and then you choose. You…

— Rob Thomas

Love, to her, was something hat comes suddenly, like a blinding flash of lightening - a heaven-sent storm hurled into life, uprooting it, sweeping…

— Gustave Flaubert

“I give you this to take with you: Nothing remains as it was. If you know this, you can begin again, with pure joy…

— Judith Minty

Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin to committing…

— Lawrence Venuti

Not the least of the problems in clarifying one's consciousness is developing the stoic determination to criticize one's own softness or sentimentality toward oneself.…

— Kenny Smith

Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself.

— Simone Weil

Yes, I could see these enormous elephants, whose trunks were tearing down large boughs, and working in and out the trees like a legion…

— Jules Verne

Natural capitalism is not about making sudden changes, uprooting institutions, or fomenting upheaval for a new social order. Natural capitalism is about making small,…

— Paul Hawken

I've gone through a really hard divorce, and anyone who has gone through a divorce will speak about how hard the journey is from…

— Christina Aguilera

What does Christianity mean today? National Socialism is a religion. All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting outmoded religious practices and…

— Joseph Goebbels

Without you, without your onslaughts, without your uprootings of us, we should remain all our lives inert, stagnant, puerile, ignorant both of ourselves and…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The illogical man is what advertising is after. This is why advertising is so anti-rational; this is why it aims at uprooting not only…

— Henryk Skolimowski

Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching.

— Frank Auerbach