Sum Quotes

Chemistry cannot be manufactured or forced, so Wild Flag was not a sure thing, it was a 'maybe,' a 'possibility.' But after a handful of practice sessions, spread out over a period of months, I think we all realized that we could be greater than the sum of our parts.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

To sum up: it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

"Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

And when that's working, the sum can be greater than the parts.

A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things.

Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make, the more of a financial impact you can have.

To sum it all up: It was a great picture to do; I just wish it had never been released.

Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night.

It'll be all of our efforts together. It won't won't ever be exactly the way I imagined it. And that is, I think, an important lesson as well, is that in any group enterprise it's going to be the sum total of the group.

For example, one way of giving yourself a strong incentive to reach your goal is to commit to pay money to someone if you fail. Better yet, you can specify that you will have to pay a certain sum to a cause that you detest.

I suppose you could sum up the religious aspects of my boyhood by saying it was a time of life when I was taught the difference between right and wrong as it specifically applied to Catholicism.

My parents were drawn to the idea that there was space and opportunity in Australia. For the meagre sum of £10, you could sail your entire family out to Australia, so that's what my father chose to do.

Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.

In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.

One thing about a skater: they never quit. So a skater, to sum it up, is awesome.

These two are not two Love has made them one Amo Ergo Sum! And by its mystery Each is no less but more.

On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.

We are not the sum of our possessions.

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

Yes, it is worse than thrown away, because every fair minded man must admit that the expenditure of this sum of money in the county for intoxicating liquor creates lawlessness, makes criminals, wrecks homes and brings trouble to innocent women and children.

But if I were to sum up who Barack Obama is and how he plans to meet this moment with one word, that word would be 'responsibility.' Responsibility to each other, our families, our communities, our country, and our world.

You look at the descriptions of Whitey by law enforcement during his early years, and they sum him up pretty well. He was the same guy 40 years later; he just had $40 million more, and had committed 40 more murders.

Hollywood is like life, you face it with the sum total of your equipment.

An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.

The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.

The sum of all sums is eternity.

Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.