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Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot. — Elihu Root

Do we root for Michael Corleone in the 'Godfather' films? I think so, even if he is a monster. — Jacques Audiard

Man's mind is the root of all the goods produced and of all the wealth that has ever existed on earth. — Ayn Rand

We live in an environment in which sexuality is often trivialized and defiled, stripped of its emotional depth and divorced from its sacred root. — William Keepin

My wanting to write books annihilates the original root impulse that would have me bravely and blunderingly working on them. — Sylvia Plath

Here lies the bottom and root of all contentment, when there is an evenness and proportion between our hearts and our circumstances. — Jeremiah Burroughs

I had sucked on the tit of disillusionment and teethed on the bitter root of cynicism. I was on the way to the misanthropy that would sour me. — Norman Lock

It would be an error to try to build the Kingdom of Heaven upon envy. For nothing that is founded on envy can thrive; it must have another root. — Paracelsus

The idea of a separate center is the root of the ego. — Osho

Tell me, what would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood? — J.K. Rowling

If I can't get people to commit themselves on whether or not there is a square root of two, then I won't touch on God or anything here — Tom Lehrer

The love of theory is the root of all evil. — William M. Briggs

Drawing is the root of everything! — Vincent Van Gogh

Treason is a noxious weed," Pycelle declared solemnly. "It must be torn up, root and stem and seed, lest new traitors sprout from every roadside. — George R R Martin

Consecrated life means going to the very root of the love of Jesus Christ with an undivided heart and putting nothing ahead of this love. — Pope Benedict XVI

Daoist thought is the root of science and technology in China. — Joseph Needham

What we have got to do now is use this event, the resignation of the whole commission, to drive through root and branch reform. — Tony Blair

It's Bush's baby, even if he shares its popularization with Gorbachev. Forget the Hitler 'new order' root; F.D.R. used the phrase earlier. — William Safire

At its root, this is what faith is. It is not believing in God. It's believing God. — R.C. Sproul

Shallow breathing is the root of all evil but conscious deep breathing restores and secures our souls. — Desmond Green

War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love, and these have no sure root but in the religion of Jesus Christ. — William Ellery Channing

The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while. — Edward Abbey

Money isn't the root of all evil; the love of money isn't the root of all evil; the NEED for money is the root of all evil. — Dorothy Koomson

Our virtues and view spring from one root. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The square root of 69 is 8(ate) som' — Drake

Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification. — Joseph Campbell

The wolf always charges the lamb with muddying the stream. — Elihu Root

Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil. — Ernest Becker

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses. — Francis Bacon

Alone with Alex? I'd rather get a root canal. — Mandy Hubbard

And they say [money's] the root of all evil. Well, Protestants say that. Catholics know better. — Hilary Mantel

I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power. — Patricia Cornwell

Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot. — Thomas Moore

The one prejudice it had proved hardest to root out of a society was the one towards people whose social skills were limited. — Alex Lamb

There is a root to every action, which is really a reaction to what is going on inside of us. — Tanya R. Liverman

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their root in Greece — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Humility means coming to the root of the matter, honestly looking at yourself and saying: "This is me for better or for worse." — Frederick Lenz

The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery — Paramahansa Yogananda

Love is the root; obedience is the fruit. — Matthew Henry

When the savages of Louisiana are desirous of fruit, they cut the tree to the root and gather the fruit. This is an emblem of despotic government. — Montesquieu

Self-criticism, cruel, unsparing criticism that goes to the very root of the evil, is life and breath for the proletarian movement. — Rosa Luxemburg

Is the square root of hate the same thing as love times love? — Eugene Mirman

A person's soul is bigger than his body. It takes root and lives in all who love him. — Kelly Barnhill

Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative enough to want. — Waverley Lewis Root

I'm from New York, so I'm a big Howard Stern fan. — Stephen Root

The moment God put a dream in your heart, the moment the promise took root, God not only started it, but He set a completion date. — Joel Osteen

Po's [Kung Fu Panda] unending enthusiasm is something we wish we could have. We can't help but root for him because of his geek energy. — Jennifer Yuh Nelson

This and no other is the root from
which a tyrant springs; when he
first appears he is a protector. — Plato

Water the root to enjoy the fruit. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil. — Plato

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

This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely. — Alan Hirsch

God the Father's a deep root; the Son's the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance — Tertullian

The sin we need to be concerned about is the sin in our own lives. It's the root of all human woe, the source of anguish. — Francine Rivers

Bloodraven is the root of all our woes, the white worm gnawimg at the heart of the realm. — George R R Martin

If its about the existence of god, you may as well ask me, what the square root of an elephant is? — Steve Merrick

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest. — Ludwig Von Mises

Prayer is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings. — Saint John Chrysostom

Our root fantasy is that "I" am real and that it's possible for "me" to be happy. — Sakyong Mipham

Nature was indeed at her artistic best when she created the nutmeg, a delight to the eye in all its avatars, from the completely garbed to nudity. — Waverley Root

Many of us refuse to grow where God plants us. Therefore, we don't take root anywhere. — Oswald Chambers

The real person's breathing reaches down to their heels. The normal person's breathing in the throat — Yang Jwing-Ming

I'm always curious how we sometimes have a different point of view when it comes to justice. And that's why people root for 'Dexter.' — Erik King

The path of goodness had a name it is called Love in it we find the key to every hope and has it's root in God Himself — Pope John Paul II

It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors — Charles Caleb Colton

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings. — Carl Sandburg

It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Asking why is the root of a scientific mindset. — Eraldo Banovac

After all, the seeds of depression cannot take root in a grateful heart. — Andy Andrews

DO NOT PUT ALL YOUR TRUST IN ROOT VEGETABLES. WHAT THINGS SEEM TO BE MAY NOT BE WHAT THEY ARE.
-Death — Terry Pratchett

The Mets have heart and character, and I need a man who can root for the underdog. I refuse to sleep with a Yankees fan. — Jennifer Probst

The point of the mission trip is to invite young people to act in ways that witness to the promise of God's action, which will make all things new. — Andrew Root

...root beer floats are the stuff that toasts are made of. — Sandra D. Bricker

By unrighteousness man prospers, gains what appears desirable, conquer enemies, but perishes a the root. — Rabindranath Tagore

Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state. — William Law

When God speaks faith has to connect to His Word because if you allow only your feelings to connect no root can be formed. — Mz Liz

To be radical is to go to the root of the matter. For man, however, the root is man himself. — Karl Marx

The word amateur comes from the Latin root meaning "to love. — Steven Pressfield

If fans are discouraged, find another team to root for. — Mike D'Antoni

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other. — Francis Bacon

To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality. — Bell Hooks

Go to the root of the problems of people and discover ways to save them — Sunday Adelaja

'National Security' is the root password to the Constitution. — Phil Karn

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

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes. — Louisa May Alcott

Must take care of de root for to heal de tree. — Karen White

Women are the root of all evil. I ought to know. I'm Evel. — Evel Knievel

Non-duality has been the root of all religious movements on this planet. — Abhijit Naskar

Reason finds it difficult to take root in the arid soil of wrath. — Lucy Freeman

Never root for a team whose uniforms have elastic stretch waistbands. — Susan Sarandon

How can money be the root of all evil when shopping is the cure for all sadness? — Elizabeth Taylor

The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government. — Aung San Suu Kyi

I didn't get nervous when I ran, but I get nervous watching other people now. I root for anybody with a USA on their chest. — Gail Devers

Stop concentrating on the leaves concentrate on d root cause where they came from.Curse or bless d cause — Ikechukwu Joseph

Their conversation was like root canal without anaesthesia. — Tan Redding

Communism feeds on aggression, hatred, and the imprisonment of men's minds and souls. This shall not take root in the United States. — Emanuel Celler

Sex is the root of which intuition is the foliage and beauty is the flower. — D.H. Lawrence

It cannot be when the root is neglected that what springs from it will be well ordered. — Confucius

Premature optimization is the root of all evil. - Donald E. Knuth [ — Joshua Bloch

I'm a big root beer guy. — Dylan O'Brien