Top 100 Quotes About Stems
#1. Our terminal decline into old age and death stems from the fine print of the contract that we signed with our mitochondria two billion years ago.
Nick Lane
#2. Compassion is not only relevant to those who are blameless victims, but also to those whose suffering stems from failures, personal weakness, or bad decisions. You know, the kind you and I make every day. Compassion,
Kristin Neff
#3. Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.
Mary Catherine Bateson
#5. Productivity is most important by engineering management rules, but enjoyment is most important for engineers. One stems from the other.
Rob Pike
#6. The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era.
Bill Gates
#7. All our heroism stems from our womenfolk. A man without a woman is like a pistol without a hammer;;the woman sparks the charge
Victor Hugo
#8. The earliest memories I have of the ocean are actually stories - stories from my grandfather, the legendary ocean explorer and conservationist Jacques Cousteau. My passion for ocean conservation stems from learning at a very young age that we're all connected; we're all in this together.
Philippe Cousteau Jr.
#9. The big trunk of the umbrella pine looms outside the window, living its two lives - the upper world of needles and stems, the lower world of roots and soil.
Anthony Doerr
#11. You'll be dedicated and that's what you should want to be in anything in life - whether it's sports or academics or your relationship. It all stems from finding that fun, that thrill, that excitement.
Brandi Chastain
#13. I don't know, I feel like any role that I play is a little piece of me, whether it's their perspective, maybe how they dress, what they think is funny, their loyalty to their friends. It all stems from Kiersey.
Kiersey Clemons
#14. Cynicism is idealism turned inside out. It stems from an expectation unrealized and a promise perverted. That is so much of Washington today in a nutshell.
Mark Leibovich
#15. Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits and death and where the world went when I closed my eyes.
Toni Morrison
#16. Black music is a group music. That's why I don't like doing a solo saxophone thing: My feeling stems from rhythm, I really have to feel that rhythmic thing happening.
Jimmy Lyons
#17. Solitude, the joy of being alone, stems from, as well as promotes, a state of maturity and inner richness.
Neel Burton
#18. A "No Excuses" mindset in your family stems directly from your personal growth. If you are not growing as a person, the first impact will affect your family.
Farshad Asl
#19. As a spirit schooled to power, his perception stems from one absolute. Universal harmony begins with recognition that the life in an ordinary pebble is as sacred as conscious selfhood.
Janny Wurts
#20. A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
Fawn M. Brodie
#21. A lot of my writing comes from the themes of my life, and a lot of that stems from my faith. I also strive to be a light through which Christ can shine, whether it's through the way I dress, though my videos, or through my music.
Lindsey Stirling
#22. Don't cling to your self-concept purely because your will demands it. Demand that your environment aligns as much as possible and change what you must about yourself when the outer world can't be changed. Mental health is about mental fluidity, mental illness stems in rigidity.
Oli Anderson
#23. First and foremost, I'm a feminist. And basically that stems from a strong belief that all people and creatures deserve equal opportunity, rights and respect.
Kathy Najimy
#24. Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.
James Fenton
#25. The stems stood tall and straight, one series arranged in a single line, the other in a crudely shaped heart, the final one in the shape of the letter U. I love you.
Lurlene McDaniel
#26. Morels are ugly in the skillet. The caps look like the scrotums of leprechauns, the stems like the tusks of fetal elephants.
Tom Robbins
#27. There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.
Vivienne Westwood
#28. This is the way dissent is handled in feminist realms: a contrary opinion or argument is actually an attack. This stems from the belief that your truth is the only truth, that your sense of trauma and oppression does not need to be examined or questioned. In
Jessa Crispin
#29. So much of America's tragic and costly failure to care for all its children stems from our tendency to distinguish between our own children and other people's children
as if justice were divisible.
Marian Wright Edelman
#30. People have many ways to be lousy to one another, as you'll find out when you're older, but I think that all bad behavior stems from plain old selfishness.
Stephen King
#31. I find the daffodils, crisp at the edges where they've dried, limp towards the stems, use my fingers to pinch.
Margaret Atwood
#32. Wisdom stems from personal accountability. We all make mistakes; own them ... learn from them. Don't throw away the lesson by blaming others.
Steve Maraboli
#33. How do the stems connect to the roots?' 'Where is the mist coming from?' 'Why does one tree seem darker than another?' These questions are implicitly asked and answered in the process of sketching.
Alain De Botton
#34. The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is.
Paul Valery
#35. Sometimes I see movies and I get almost angry - because I'm like, I can never make that movie. It stems from a jealousy, but from a good kind of jealousy. It's inspirational.
Ellen Page
#36. Everything stems from real experiences but I do also have a very vivid imagination. A song lyric gets easily carried away with itself and can end up somewhere I'd never have predicted.
Imogen Heap
#38. A book should be a garden that fits in the hands. Word-petals of color. Stems of strength. roots of truth. Turn a page and turn the seasons. Read the sentence and enjoy the roses.
Max Lucado
#39. Laos is a country where everything is eaten. When I came back, I would find myself chopping parsley and thinking: 'Why am I throwing these stems away? They're perfectly edible.'
Ruth Reichl
#40. The second cause of failure to enact good stems from conflict of intention. High intelligence leads to multiplicity of interest and a sharpened capacity to foresee the consequences of any action. Will is lost in a labyrinth of hypothesis.
John Fowles
#41. Perhaps all human progress stems from the tension between two basic drives: to have just what everyone else has and to have what no one has.
Judith Stone
#42. Logic stems from the mind of man, therefore it's limited, it's flawed. Faith gives you hope, keeps you from despair. Faith is what picks you up and ensures you keep going. Logic keeps you lying facedown in the muck at your feet.
Eric Van Lustbader
#43. Failure to believe stems from moral failure to recognize the truth, not from want of evidence, but from willful neglect or distortion of the evidence.
D. A. Carson
#44. I feel that a lot of human spirituality stems from the belief that we are unique and special in the universe, but maybe we are just what happens when there is proper temperature and proper distance from the right type of star.
Alex Honnold
#45. The desire for magic cannot be eradicated. Even the most supposedly rational people attempt to practice magic in love and war. We simultaneously possess the most primitive of brain stems and the most sophisticated of cortices. The imperatives of each coexist uneasily.
Erica Jong
#46. It is the diversity of views that stems from different experiences and different backgrounds that lead to healthy decision-making and not the unified experiences and unified views.
Zainab Salbi
#47. Miss Tox left her seat in a hurry, and returned to her plants; clipping among the stems and leaves, with as little favour as a barber working at so many pauper heads of hair.
Charles Dickens
#48. Korean cinema is very improvisational, and there is a unique power that stems from this.
Bae Doona
#49. Progress stems from education, culture, freedom and equality. Without these fundamentals, mankind will flounder.
Matt Chandler
#50. The bourgeois ... is tolerant. His love for people as they are stems from his hatred of what they might be.
Theodor Adorno
#51. Hoeing: A manual method of severing roots from stems of newly planted flowers and vegetables.
Henry Beard
#52. I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated plantain with tall stems, and dandelions with splendid flowers and fairy down, than the too - well-tended lawn.
William Henry Hudson
#53. I have always had a very natural connection to the water, and that connection stems from the ocean itself.
Aaron Peirsol
#54. Disappointment doesn't stem from expectations. It stems from unrealistic or unreasonable expectations.
Sue Fitzmaurice
#55. Every small problem most likely stems from the same root as large problems, and so there is no need to always go deep. One can use anything for the therapeutic process and/if this link is made.
Pema Chodron
#56. He's an avant-gardener whose great work includes the famous minimalist garden at Kew which was just a daisy and three wittily arranged grass stems.
Ben Moor
#57. It is a truth widely recognized that tyranny stems from the consent of the governed as much as democracy does.
Eric Robert Morse
#58. The reason people will attack you never really has anything to do with you. It stems from their OWN evil thoughts that they entertain and from wanting and not getting their way.
Sandra M. Michelle
#59. I think the attraction to Israeli women stems from the fact that we're exotic and the fact that there are many talented and beautiful women in Israel. I think that there is also greater awareness of Israel than before in the movie industry.
Bar Paly
#60. Man's misfortune stems from the fact that he does not want to stay in the room where he belongs.
Patrick Suskind
#61. Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader.
Jen Lancaster
#62. Presenting leadership as a list of carefully defined qualities (like strategic, analytical, and performance-oriented) no longer holds. Instead, true leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed ... Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.
Sheryl Sandberg
#63. I feel like I have a group of friends, guys could be interchanged with my neighbors from back home. These guys are really close and really tight, and it all stems from 'Wouldn't it be cool if this happened.'
Michael Giacchino
#64. You don't realize what a strain it is on the nerves to write or think-of-writing all day long, and to sleep full of nervous dreams, and to wake up not knowing who one is: this all stems from anxiety about finishing the book, about time 'growing short', etc., and the perpetual strain of invention.
Jack Kerouac
#65. Much of our difficulty as seeking Christians stems from our unwillingness to take God as He is and adjust our lives accordingly. We insist upon trying to modify Him and bring Him nearer to our own image.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#66. The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
Auguste Rodin
#67. Failure is a judgment, an opinion. It stems from your fears, which can be eliminated by love-love for yourself, love for what you do, love for others, and love for your planet.
Wayne Dyer
#68. I will talk about two sets of things. One is how productivity and collaboration are reinventing the nature of work, and how this will be very important for the global economy. And two, data. In other words, the profound impact of digital technology that stems from data and the data feedback loop.
Satya Nadella
#69. The origin of each of us stems from codes of genetic inheritance.
John Eccles
#70. All evil stems from this-that we do. Know how to handle your solitude.
Blaise Pascal
#71. For many women, the experience of prostitution stems from the historical trauma of colonization.
Melissa Farley
#72. The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants has a huge plan that stems from the earlier issues of Uncanny X-Force. Archangel's fall was really the smaller consequence from killing the child Apocalypse. This is the big consequence.
Rick Remender
#73. Much of the misgiving that Muslims feel for the West stems from our strong emphasis on freedom, always a risky enterprise. I've heard some say they would rather rear their children in a closely guarded Islamic society than in the United States, where freedom so often leads to decadence.
Philip Yancey
#74. Much of the hatred and fear of sexuality found in religions stems from the idea that sex is a thing of the body and that the body must be denied so that the spirit may be elevated. In Buddhism there is no notion that the body is made of inferior matter while the spirit flies free within.
Brad Warner
#75. The greater part of our anxieties stems from an exaggerated sense of the importance of our own projects and concerns. We are tortured by our ideals and by a punishingly high-minded sense of the gravity of what we are doing.
Alain De Botton
#76. But having said all of that, that still doesn't account for a lot of the increase in popularity which stems, I think, from Lincoln's personal characteristics.
David Herbert Donald
#77. I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.'
Earl Warren
#78. I'm a comedian who happens to be Muslim; my comedy stems on all forms of my identity.
Riaad Moosa
#79. Power stems from 'rainmaking,' as law firms put it: the ability to bring resources into the company.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
#80. The fact that evil exists in the world bothers me. I think that people do terrible things for ideological or political reasons. I think that evil stems from ideology. People are taught to hate.
Antonio Munoz Molina
#81. As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force.
Dante Alighieri
#82. Everything for you stems from a physical need. Most of you think with either your belly or what's below it
Soroosh Shahrivar
#83. I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n' roll especially comes from blues.
David Johansen
#84. Your lifelong rebellion against all forms of authority stems from the infant's desire to murder the father and possess the mother.
Donald O'Donovan
#85. The only 'right path' for you is the one that stems deeply from the core of your true self. The only 'wrong' path for you is one that is not in alignment or acting in honor of your true self.
Elaina Marie
#86. It is curious how in English embroideries there has always been a predilection on the part of the designers for interlacing stems, and for the inconsequent introduction of birds and beasts.
Anonymous
#87. Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
Anais Nin
#89. Most anger stems from feelings of weakness, sadness and fear: hard to remember when one is at the receiving end of its defiant roar.
Alain De Botton
#90. We, in Syria, our point of view stems from our experience.
Bashar Al-Assad
#91. I truly believe that fundamentalism stems from unemployment. A man without a job is desperate; he doesn't want to live anyway.
Stef Wertheimer
#92. Giving is a really big thing around Christmas, as well it should be. Christmas is about giving, and it all stems from the greatest gift the world has ever received - the gift of Jesus Christ.
Monica Johnson
#93. I don't know if my faith stems from what I'd call unconditional love, but the energy certainly feels boundless.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#94. All defensiveness stems from the need to be right and frustration over not being able to control others.
Bryant McGill
#95. It stems from my Australianisms and belief that everyone is a fundamental cog in the wheel.
Janet Holmes A Court
#96. That's the original problem from which the escalator mess stems. There's just too many of them.
Robert James Thomson
#97. I love sports. When I'm not playing, I'm watching, reading, or otherwise obsessing about them. This probably stems from growing up in Indiana, where if you didn't at least attempt to play basketball, you were considered of dubious moral character.
Mark Waters
#98. If one looks at creativity as a resource that we continually draw upon to make something from nothing, then our fear stems from the need to make the nonexistent come into being.
Ed Catmull
#99. Summer was over in twenty minutes that day. Finished. At four o'clock in the afternoon the roses were quiet on their stems, full-blown, fulfilled; the water in the pool was warm; the leaves on the trees quiet, too, and green. The cat lay with his belly to the sun, steeped in heat.
Elizabeth Enright
#100. The prison industrial complex is perhaps, at least domestically, the most striking example of us putting profit before people. It all stems from one basic misunderstanding: that the public good can be shepherded by private interests.
Eugene Jarecki
