Root Quotes
1111 quotes by 854 authors
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You have cable?†He nodded toward her TV. She tossed him the clicker. “Sure do. And if I remember, there’s a Godzilla marathon on TBS…
— J R Ward
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There was a feeling, not sudden, but complete, as though I had been given a small object to hold unseen in my hands. Precious as…
— Diana Gabaldon
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Even a good place gets to be a rut, especially if you're standing in it alone... Alone and lonely have the same root.
— Nora Roberts
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Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state, perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here, mankind's root was…
— Dante Alighieri
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When you lose all sense of self the bonds of a thousands chains will vanish. Lose yourself completely, return to the root of the root…
— Rumi
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Ignore and ignorance share the same root.
— Kathryn Erskine
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Something aches at the very core of me, something ancient and deep and stronger than words: the filament that joins each of us to the…
— Lauren Oliver
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At the root of all misery is unfulfilled desire.
— Scott Hahn
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Through wind, and tempest, storm, and rain; The calm shall be buried inside of me; A warm stone, heavy and dry; The root, the source,…
— Lauren Oliver
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He felt around desperately for a weapon. What did he have? Diapers? Cookies? Oh, why hadn't they given him a sword? He was the stupid…
— Suzanne Collins
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Conversion is not the smooth, easy-going process some men seem to think... It is wounding work, this breaking of the hearts, but without wounding there…
— John Bunyan
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Talking about one's feelings defeats the purpose of having those feelings. Once you try to put the human experience into words, it becomes little more…
— Derek Landy
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Because of course she had known she must go. She always did the thing because in obedience lay the integrity that God asked of her.…
— Elizabeth Goudge
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As we forge deeper into this issue of forgiveness, we must be prepared to open up and discuss things that bother us before they escalate…
— T.D. Jakes
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An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that…
— C.S. Lewis
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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.…
— Andrew Murray
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The root of all virtue and grace, of all faith and acceptable worship, is that we know that we have nothing but what we receive,…
— Andrew Murray
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I always root for the monster.
— J R Ward
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I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such refined and subtle…
— George Orwell
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Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever.
— George Orwell
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