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Feelings are relative. And at the root, they're all the same, even if they grow from different experiences and exist on different scales. — Becky Chambers

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

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

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

Drawing is the root of everything! — Vincent Van Gogh

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

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

Cultivate the root; the leaves and branches will take care of themselves. — Confucius

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

At the root of all real experience of grace and true — Andrew Murray

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

We use the term pop in the art world, as in Pop Art, but we forget that its root is popular - popular culture. — Jeffrey Deitch

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

Some things take root
in the brain and just don't
let go. — Tim Seibles

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Do not fear the aging of the body for it is the body's way of seeking the root. — Laozi

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

The root of an unmortified course is the digestion of sin without bitterness in the heart. — John Owen

Selfishness is the root of every sin. — Anonymous

Shame is the root of all addictions. — John Bradshaw

Our right or wrong use of money is the utmost test of character, as well as the root of happiness or misery, throughout our whole lives. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

From the Son of Heaven down to the mass of the people, all must consider the cultivation of the person the root of everything besides. — Confucius

On a good day this is how we live. This is love. This is what life is. The possibility of finding root, safety and nurturing in a new season. — Bruce Springsteen

We need to discover the root causes of success rather than the root causes of failure. — David Cooperrider

A child is the root of the heart. — Carolina Maria De Jesus

Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization. — Dinesh D'Souza

Everybody wishes to have something that somebody else has. And that's the root of all sorrows. — Abhijit Naskar

The changes that are needed in schools will take root more readily if local and national policies actually support them. — Ken Robinson

Religion is the root of quite a lot of evil. — Richard Dawkins

If you study your own struggles, the struggles of others, even in movies or novels you'll see the root of all their suffering is always attachments — Yasmin Mogahed

Ideas take root at the oddest moments. Some grow into novels, the weaker ones wither and die. — Pippa DaCosta

If you're betrayed, release disappointment at once.
By that way, the bitterness has no time to take root. — Toba Beta

Because until we write it down, we don't know what is actually at the root of our lives. — George A. Sheehan

But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all. — Nikolai Gogol

See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many. — Terri Blackstock

Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn't have any. — Ben Affleck

The only way you will ever permanently take control of your financial life is to dig deep and fix the root problem. — Suze Orman

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself. — Soren Kierkegaard

The Jew is a devil in human form. It is fitting that he be exterminated root and branch. — Julius Streicher

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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