Root Quotes
1111 quotes by 854 authors
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Truly good manners are invisible: they ease the way for others, without drawing attention to themselves. It is no accident that the word "punctilious" ("attentive…
— Lynne Truss
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Thus, in a middle course between these heights and depths, they drifted through life rather than lived, the prey of aimless days and sterile memories,…
— Albert Camus
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Courage is a heart word. The root of the word courage is cor - the Latin word for heart. In one of its earliest forms,…
— Brené Brown
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You can't change the fruit without changing the root.
— Stephen Covey
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A legacy that powerful does not disappear. Next to the Egyptians, the Greeks and Romans were babies. Our modern nations like Great Britain and America?…
— Rick Riordan
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The root of anger is the perception that something has been taken. Something is owed you, and now a debt to debtor relationship has been…
— Andy Stanley
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Fear of being a flawed person lay at the root of my trance, and I had sacrificed many moments over the years in trying to…
— Tara Brach
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Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers and…
— Primo Levi
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I haven't had a very good day. I think I might still be hung over and everyone's dead and my root beer's gone.
— Holly Black
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I think people are as individual as snowflakes, they kinda look alike but no two are the exactly the same, and all classification is the…
— Craig Ferguson
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You're trying not to tell him you love him, and you're trying to choke down the feeling, and you're trembling, but he reaches over and…
— Richard Siken
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People who have drawn wealth into their lives used The Secret, whether consciously or unconsciously. They think thoughts of abundance and wealth, and they do…
— Rhonda Byrne
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Conscience in the soul is the root of all true courage. If a man would be brave, let him learn to obey his conscience.
— James Freeman Clarke
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It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives. Nourish it then, that it may leaf and bloom and fill with…
— Black Elk
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The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache... This shattering recognition of our mortality is at…
— Stanley Kubrick
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It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by…
— Alice Duer Miller
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One cannot achieve peace without realizing justice, realize justice without seeking out the truth, seek out the truth without practicing freedom. So living and thinking…
— Sami Al-Arian
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I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.
— Meera
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Love is the root of all joy and sorrow.
— Meister Eckhart
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Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.
— Carl Sandburg
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