“I still wasn't convinced that tossing a shoe didn't mean you harbored an anger-management problem, but I did understand love now. How it wrapped around you and made you more aware of the prickles on your skin, the roots of your hair, the intensity of every touch and every inch of you. It was like life on hi-def. Everything was sharper.” LoveMeanMadeStillsProblemAgeHairRootsSkinsManagementShoesConvincedIntensityInchesAnger Management Book:True Source: True
“It is by no means necessary that a great nation should always stand at the heroic level. But no nation has the root of greatness in it unless in time of need it can rise to the heroic mood.” NeedsShouldMeanNationsLevelsGreatnessRootsMoodHeroicGreat NationsTime Of Need Book:Fear God and Take Your Own Part Source: Fear God and Take Your Own Part
“Humility means coming to the root of the matter, honestly looking at yourself and saying: "This is me for better or for worse."” MeanMatterHumilityBuddhismRootsHonestlyThis Is Me Author:Frederick Lenz
“I guess, like most foreigners, when you're away, you see your own culture being even more strange. But where I come from and my roots mean a lot. I miss my family and my friends. Something I've realized as I've been traveling is that it's more about the actual people than the actual place.” PeopleMeanCultureMissingStrangeMy FriendsRootsMy FamilyForeigners Author:Alicia Vikander
“The assurance that we have no means of answering [final] questions is no valid excuse for callousness towards them. The more deeply should we feel, down to the roots of our being, their pressure and their sting. Whose hunger has ever been [sated] with the knowledge that he could not eat?” FeelsShouldMeanRootsPressureFinalsHungerExcuseAssuranceCallousnessSated Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“Reagan's story of freedom superficially alludes to the Founding Fathers, but its substance comes from the Gilded Age, devised by apologists for the robber barons. It is posed abstractly as the freedom of the individual from government control a Jeffersonian ideal at the roots of our Bill of Rights, to be sure. But what it meant in politics a century later, and still means today, is the freedom to accumulate wealth without social or democratic responsibilities and license to buy the political system right out from everyone else.” MeanStillsStoriesGovernmentAgeTodayPoliticalFatherIndividualSocialWealthResponsibilityRightsCenturyIdealsRootsBillsDemocraticSubstanceFoundingLicensePolitical SystemsBill Of RightsRobbersGildedGilded AgeRobber Baron Author:Bill Moyers
“To cut out every negative root would simultaneously mean choking off positive elements that might arise from it further up the stem of the plant. We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.” FeelsShouldMeanMightBeautifulGrowsCuttingElementsNegativeRootsDifficultyPlantAriseStemEmbarrassedChoke Author:Alain de Botton
“Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root whence all excellence springs.” MeanAttentionVirtueSpringRootsInstrumentsExcellenceCompelledManuals Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion