Best roots & lying Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“But can they [great works] get rid of the worm that lies gnawing at the roots of my heart? No, never.”

Heart Lying My Heart Roots Worms Great Work

“The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself.”

Art Lying Artist Art Is Roots Sincerity Insincerity

Author:Quentin Bell

“We were all born of flesh, in a flare of pain. We do not remember the red roots whence we rose, but we know that we rose and walked, that after a while we shall lie down again.”

Knows Pain Remember Lying Born Birth Red Roots Rose Flesh Flare

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“It is now generally accepted that the roots of our ethics lie in patterns of behavior that evolved among our pre-human ancestors, the social mammals and that we retain within our biological nature elements of these evolved responses. We have learned considerably more about this responses, and we are beginning to to understand how they interact with our capacity to reason.”

Humans Reason Lying Social Behavior Elements Ethics Capacity Roots Response Patterns Accepted Ancestor Mammals

Book:The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress

Source: The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress

“Anyone from abroad will tell you that it is the class system that really lies at the root of our problems, economic and industrial. The House of Lords symbolises that.”

Problem Lying House Lord Class Economic Roots Class System House Of Lords

Author:Tony Benn

“Commerce is entitled to a complete and efficient protection in all its legal rights, but the moment it presumes to control a country, or to substitute its fluctuating expedients for the high principles of natural justice that ought to lie at the root of every political system, it should be frowned on, and rebuked.”

“Each of us, with money, gets further and further away from those moments where the hand pulls the beet root from the soil, shakes the fish from the net into the basket -- not to mention the way it separates us from one another, so that when enough money comes between people, they lie apart like parts of a chicken hacked up for stewing.”

People Way Enough Moments Hands Lying Money Roots Fishes Soil Shakes Chickens Baskets Hacked Beets

Book:Tales of Neveryeon

Source: Tales of Neveryeon

“the leading error of the human mind, - the bane of human happiness - the perverter of human virtue ... is Religion - that dark coinage of trembling ignorance! It is Religion - that poisoner of human felicity! It is Religion - that blind guide of human reason! It is Religion - that dethroner of human virtue! which lies at the root of all the evil and all the misery that pervade the world!”

World Mind Humans Reason Lying Evil Dark Virtue Ignorance Roots Blind Misery Errors Guides Human Mind Trembling Felicity Bane Human Happiness Human Reason Poisoners

Author:Frances Wright

“I will tell you where there is power: where the dew lies upon the hills, and the rain has moistened the roots of the various plant; where the sunshine pours steadily; where the brook runs babbling along, there is a beneficent power.”

Running Lying Power Rain Roots Plant Various Hills Sunshine Dew Brooks Babbling

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“As things stand now the feudal lords are content to look on while the shogunate carries on in a highhanded manner. Neither the lords nor the shogun can be depended upon, and so our only hope lies in grass-roots heroes.”

Looks Lying Lord Hero Roots Grass Carrie Shoguns

Author:Yoshida Shoin

“It seems hopeless, hopeless. Those who eat meat [at public expense] are a mean, selfish lot, and so the country is doomed. Our only hope lies in the grass-roots folk who eat our traditional food.”

Mean Country Seems Lying Roots Folks Selfish Traditional Grass Meat Hopeless Expenses Doomed

Author:Yoshida Shoin

“It must always be borne in mind that the assumption of woman's social superiority lies at the root of these rules of conduct.”

Mind Lying Social Women Roots Manners Assumption Superiority

Author:Humphry Davy

“The desire to confess ... lies at the root of most fiction writing.”

Writing Lying Desire Fiction Roots Fiction Writing

Author:Lucy Poate Stebbins

“I have never known a concern to make a decided success that did not do good, honest work, and even in these days of fiercest competition, when everything would seem to be a matter of price, there lies still at the root of great business success the very much more important factor of quality. The effect of attention to quality, upon every man in the service, from the president of the concern down to the humblest laborer, cannot be overestimated.”

Source: Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie: Top Biography

“The roots of a child's ability to cope and thrive, regardless of circumstance, lie in that child's having had at least a small, safe place (an apartment? a room? a lap?) in which, in the companionship of a loving person, that child could discover that he or she was lovable and capable of loving in return. If a child finds this during the first years of life, he or she can grow up to be a competent, healthy person.”

Source: Many Ways to Say I Love You: Wisdom for Parents and Children from Mister Rogers

“But we must not forget, this ritual expressed, certain ideas which lie at the very root of true religion, the fellowship of the worshippers with one another in their fellowship with the deity, and the consecration of the bonds of kinship as the type of all right ethical relations between man and man.”

Men Ideas Lying Certain Religious Forget Type Roots Relation Ethical Ritual Deities Fellowship Kinship True Religion Worshippers Consecration

Author:William Robertson Smith

“The roots of copyright lie in censorship. It was easy for state and church to control thought by controlling the scribes, but then the printing press came along and the authorities worried that they couldn't control official thought as easily.”

States Lying Easy Church Authority Roots Presses Worried Officials Censorship Printing Copyright Printing Press Scribes

Author:Stephan Kinsella

“The old dead trees are the most fascinating - the countless trees lying in the gullies and up the hills that fell perhaps a century ago, pulling up their roots from the earth as they toppled. The great upheavals left rocks in their huge tentacles and, as they slowly rot, the trunks are home to populations of creatures, from goannas to wild pigs. As grey as tombstones in a cemetery they lie there, having outlasted generations of farmers, as they'll outlast me. In their own way they are as beautiful, more beautiful, than living trees.”

“By far the greater part of violence that humans inflicted on each other is not the work of criminals or mentally deranged, but of normal, respectable citizens service of the collective ego. One can go so far as to say that on this planet "normal" equals insane. What is it that lies at the root of this insanity? Complete identification with thought and emotion, that is to say, ego.”

Humans Lying Emotion Greater Violence Planets Citizens Ego Normal Roots Criminals Insane Insanity Collectives Respectable Identification Deranged Thoughts And Emotions

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Modern humanity's sense of alienation lies in the fact that we have cut ourselves adrift from both the natural world and from the roots of our past.”

World Facts Past Lying Humanity Natural Cutting Modern Roots Our Past Alienation Natural World Adrift

Book:Druid Mysteries: Ancient Wisdom for the 21st Century

Source: Druid Mysteries: Ancient Wisdom for the 21st Century

“Our role as gardeners is to choose, plant and tend the best seeds within the garden of our consciousness. Learning to look deeply at our consciousness is our greatest gift and our greatest need, for there lie the seeds of suffering and of love, the very roots of our being, of who we are. Mindfulness...is the guide and the practice by which we learn how to use the seeds of suffering to nourish the seeds of love.”

Needs Looks Use Lying Suffering Consciousness Roles Practice Mindfulness Garden Roots Plant Seeds Guides Who We Are Gardener Greatest Gifts

Author:Nhat Hanh

“This over-consumption is also manifest in our use of raw materials. It can even be found in our dietary habits... . People are well aware of this. The root of the problem lies in a selfish world view which inflates personal consumption beyond the essential.”

People World Wells Use Problem Lying Found Views Materials Habit Essentials Roots Selfish Manifest Consumption Raw Materials World View Selfish World

Author:Yehuda Levi

“An image, a dance step, a song may function from time to time as entertainment, but the root and full practice of the arts lies in the recognition that art is power, an instrument of communion between the self and all that is important, all that is sacred.”

May Art Important Self Lying Song Steps Practice Art Is Roots Function Instruments Sacred Entertainment Recognition Communion Dance Steps

Book:No More Secondhand Art

Source: No More Secondhand Art

“Many mothers are wholly ignorant of the almost universal prevalence of secret vice, or self-abuse among the young. Why hesitate to say firmly and without quibble that personal abuse lies at the root of much of the feebleness, paleness, nervousness and good-for-nothingness of the entire community?”

Self Young Lying Mother Community Secret Roots Universal Abuse Vices Ignorant Nothingness Nervousness

Author:John Harvey Kellogg

“From the beginning, I've stressed that home is something internal, invisible, portable, especially for those of us with roots in many physical places; we have to root ourselves in our passions, our values and our deepest friends. My home, I've always felt, lies in the songs and novels that I love, in the wife and mother that I'm never far away from, in the monastery to which I've been returning for 25 years.”

Years Home Lying Mother Values Song Passion Felt Novel Wife Roots Invisible Internals Far Away Stressed Monasteries Wives And Mothers

Author:Pico Iyer

“The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.”

Inspirational Inspiration Lying Positive Gratitude Goodness Appreciate Roots Appreciation Soil Thanksgiving Thank You Thankful Being Thankful Thankful Gratitude Gratitude And Appreciation Thanksgiving Day Expressing Gratitude Thanksgiving And Gratitude Thanksgiving Thanks Thanksgiving Gratitude Thank You Gratitude Gratitude And Thanks Love And Gratitude Inspirational Gratitude Thankful For You Thanksgiving Holiday Express Appreciation Inspirational Thanksgiving Thankful Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Thankful Happy Thanksgiving Funny Thanksgiving Love Gratitude Thank You Appreciation Thanksgiving Inspirational Thanksgiving Funny Thanksgiving Thank You Love Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Greetings Funny Happy Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Love Family Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Wishes Gratitude For Work Thanksgiving And Family Thanksgiving And Love Thankfulness For Love Thanksgiving Family Happy Thanksgiving Wishes Life Appreciation Happy Thanksgiving Love Gratitude For Friends Work Appreciation Family Gratitude Appreciation In Relationships Friend Appreciation Thanking Friends Happy Thanksgiving Greetings

Book:The Path to Enlightenment

Source: The Path to Enlightenment

“The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.”

Lying Education Virtue Teacher Honesty Spring Roots Appreciation Good Teacher Best Teacher Good Education Education And Teachers Teachers And Teaching Teacher Appreciation Thank You Appreciation Thanking Teachers Thank You Teacher Good Spring

Author:Plutarch

“Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.”

People Ifs Lying Social Sides Responsibility Courage Roots Agreement Solidarity Both Sides Accord Bloodshed Sense Of Responsibility

Author:Lech Walesa

“It smells terrible in here.' Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to forget in this age of deodorants and other perversions. Actually, I find the atmosphere of this room rather comforting. Schiller needed the scent of apples rotting in his desk in order to write. I, too, have my needs. You may remember that Mark Twain preferred to lie supinely in bed while composing those rather dated and boring efforts which contemporary scholars try to prove meaningful. Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.”

Source: A Confederacy of Dunces

“Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon which we turn; meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme, ferocious type. Shamelessness, shame: the roots of violence.”

Lying Turns Violence Conditions Type Roots Shame Extremes Axes

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Many of us are returning from a long journey during which we were forced to search for things that were of no interest to us. Now we realize that they were false. But this return cannot be made without pain, because we have been away for a long time and feel that we are strangers in out own land. It will take some time to find the friends who also left, and the places where our roots and treasures lie. But this will happen.”

Feels Long Has Beens Made Happens Pain Lying Left Interest Realizing Journey Land Return Long Time Roots Stranger Treasure Without Pain Long Journey Witch Of Portobello

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Because a sound tree doesn't have bad roots, Amara. No enterprise of greatness begins with treachery, with lying to the people who trust and love you”

People Lying Sound Tree Love You Greatness Roots And Love Enterprise Treachery Love And Trust

Book:Furies of Calderon

Source: Furies of Calderon

“The three girls were sitting and lying beside her, holding one another, weeping, their arms and legs and hair tangled like the roots of close trees, sobs shaking them like leaves in a high wind.”

Lying Girl Three Tree Wind Hair Arms Sitting Roots Legs Weeping Shaking Tangled Arms And Legs

Book:Forest Born

Source: Forest Born

“The search for scapegoats is essentially an abnegation of responsibility: it indicates an inability to assess honestly and intelligently the true nature of the problems which lie at the root of social and economic difficulties and a lack of resolve in grappling with them.”

Problem Lying Social Responsibility Economic Roots Difficulty Honestly Resolve Inability True Nature Scapegoat Grappling Abnegation

Book:Towards a true refuge

Source: Towards a true refuge

“When I opened my eyes I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with out-stretched arms, face to face with that hatchery of stars. Only half awake, still unaware that those depths were sky, having no roof between those depths and me, no branches to screen them, no root to cling to, I was seized with vertigo and felt myself as if flung forth and plunging downward like a diver.”

Ifs Stills Eye Faces Lying Stars Felt Half Saws Sky Arms Roots Depth Screens Awake Branches Pool Roof Face To Face Nocturnal Vertigo

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“You told me once of the plants that lie dormant through the drought, that wait, half-dead, deep in the earth. The plants that wait for the rain. You said they'd wait for years, if they had to; that they'd almost kill themselves before they grew again. But as soon as those first drops of water fall, those plants begin to stretch and spread their roots. They travel up through the soil and sand to reach the surface. There's a chance for them again.”

Ifs Years Firsts Said Earth Lying Fall Waiting Water Chance Half Grew Rain Roots Plant Spread Surface Soil Sand Drought Dormant Drop Of Water

Book:Stolen

Source: Stolen

“At the root of every large struggle in life is the need to be honest about something that we do not feel we can be honest about. We lie to ourselves or other people because the truth might require action on our part, and action requires courage. We say we “don’t know” what is wrong, when we do know what is wrong; we just wish we didn’t. Art lets us tell the truth, but even art can be something to hide behind.”

People Knows Needs Feels Art Might Action Life Is Lying Wish Behinds Struggle Honest Roots Being Honest Telling The Truth Life Struggle

Author:Deb Caletti

“Economic development is something much wider and deeper than economics, let alone econometrics. Its roots lie outside the economic sphere, in education, organisation, discipline and, beyond that, in political independence and a national consciousness of self-reliance.”

“Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal godliness.”

Believe Lying Prayer Secret Roots Revival Godliness Intercession Fervent Revival Prayer Christian Prayer Revival In America Fervent Prayer

Author:William Carey

“The roots of our Soccer Tribe lie deep in our primeval past.”

Past Lying Roots Soccer Tribes Primeval Soccer Football

Author:Desmond Morris

“The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.”

Mind Lying Suffering Meditation Buddhism Circumstances Mindfulness Roots Adverse Meditation Mindfulness

Author:Matthieu Ricard

“The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.”

Love Truth Lying Roots Sense Of Humor

Author:Robertson Davies

“So the case stands, and under all the passion of the parties and the cries of battle lie the two chief moving causes of the struggle. Union means so many millions a year lost to the South; secession means the loss of the same millions to the North. The love of money is the root of this as of many many other evils ... the quarrel between North and South is, as it stands, solely a fiscal quarrel.”

Source: All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal

“History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what may be called thought.”

Men Firsts May Spiritual Science Lying History Expression Products Roots Accounts Spiritual Nature

Book:Carlyle Reader

Source: Carlyle Reader

“This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State in a Forest: It was full of Sap, full of Leaves, and full of Boughs: But now, in vain does the busy Art of Man pretend to vie with Nature, by tying that withered Bundle of Twigs to its sapless Trunk: It is at best but the Reverse of what it was; a Tree turned upside down, the Branches on the Earth, and the Root in the Air.”

Source: The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author

“The advances of biology during the past 20 years have been breathtaking, particularly in cracking the mystery of heredity. Nevertheless, the greatest and most difficult problems still lie ahead. The discoveries of the 1970's about the chemical roots of memory in nerve cells or the basis of learning, about the complex behavior of man and animals, the nature of growth, development, disease and aging will be at least as fundamental and spectacular as those of the recent past.”

“The roots of effective leadership lie in simple things, one of which is listening. Listening to someone demonstrates respect; it shows that you value their ideas and are willing to hear them.”

Ideas Shows Lying Values Leadership Simple Inspiring Willing Listening Roots Empowering Simple Things Effective Leadership

Author:John Baldoni

“We must find out where the roots of terrorism lie.”

Lying Roots Terrorism

Author:Brent Scowcroft

“The roots of art and play lie very close together.”

Art Play Together Lying Values Moral Ethics Roots

Book:No Laughing Matter

Source: No Laughing Matter

“Non-cooperation is directed not against men but against measures. It is not directed against the Governors, but against the system they administer. The roots of non-cooperation lies not in hatred but in justice if not in love.”

Ifs Men Lying Justice Struggle Roots Hatred Debate Cooperation Governors

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

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