Root Quotes

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Hatred is like a long, dark shadow. Not even the person it falls upon knows where it comes from, in most cases. It is like… — Haruki Murakami
No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the… — Virginia Woolf
I have never really thought of him as a person, either.... A guy whose strings were broken, who didnâ€™t feel the root of his leaves… — John Green
It's always nervewracking to put yourself out there. But it's the root of joy. — Ann Brashares
But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Happiness is a vine that takes root and grows within the heart, never outside it. — Khalil Gibran
No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right… — Theodore Roosevelt
I should be at peace. I have understood. Don't some say that peace comes when you understand? I have understood. I should be at peace.… — Umberto Eco
It is no secret. All power is one in source and end, I think. Years and distances, stars and candles, water and wind and wizardry,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
The root of all difficulties is a lack of the sense of the Presence of God. — Emmet Fox
..and certain that life consisted of a few simple signals and decisions; that death took root at the moment of birth and manâ€™s only recourse… — Yukio Mishima
dating you would be like a series of unnecessary root canals interspersed with occasional makeout sessions. — John Green
Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it… — Arthur Schopenhauer
When day begins to break I count my blessings, good and bad, Being wakeful for your sake, Remembering the covenant we've always had, What eagle… — P. C. Cast
here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the… — E E Cummings
Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root… — Charles Dickens
For Rat Kiley, I think, facts were formed by sensation, not the other way around, and when you listened to one of his stories, you'd… — Tim O'Brien
The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost… — George Orwell
We can hear others, and we can travel with them without moving, and we can imagine them, and we are all connected one to the… — John Green
A weapon based on Time . . ." mused Viktor Mulciber. "Well, why not? The one force no one knows how to defeat, resist, or… — Thomas Pynchon

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