Root Quotes

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I am a personal optimist but a skeptic about all else. What may sound to some like anger is really nothing more than sympathetic contempt.… — George Carlin
Religious ideas and practices take root not because they are promoted by forceful theologians, nor because they can be shown to have a sound historical… — Karen Armstrong
Expectation is the root of all heartache. — William Shakespeare
Give Me Strength This is my prayer to thee, my lord---strike, strike at the root of penury in my heart. Give me the strength lightly… — Rabindranath Tagore
My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability… — Michael Jordan
The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful. — David Steindl-Rast
To-day I think Only with scents, - scents dead leaves yield, And bracken, and wild carrot's seed, And the square mustard field; Odours that rise… — Edward Thomas
The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery — Paramahansa Yogananda
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… — Robert Fulghum
All thought of something is at the same time self-consciousness [...] At the root of all our experiences and all our reflections, we find [...]… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Secrets...are the very root of cool. — William Gibson
love, is an unnatural attachment to another living thing. it's the root cause of most personal problems people have. — Virginia C. Andrews
My granda always told me that fall's the time to root up something you don't want coming back to trouble you.' Kote mimicked the quaver… — Patrick Rothfuss
There's little value in seeking to find reasons for why people do what they do, or feel the way they feel. Hatred is a most… — Steven Erikson
But think of Adam and Eve like an imaginary number, like the square root of minus one: you can never see any concrete proof that… — Philip Pullman
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. — John Steinbeck
The root of things, what they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for nothing. Beauty. — Virginia Woolf
The search for scapegoats is essentially an abnegation of responsibility: it indicates an inability to assess honestly and intelligently the true nature of the problems… — Aung San Suu Kyi
The square root of I is I. — Vladimir Nabokov
I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root: It is what you fear. I do not fear it: I… — Sylvia Plath

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