Sum Quotes

To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing.

The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.

If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people.

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

Success is the sum of details.

Of history, how little do we know by personal contact; we have lived a few years, seen a few men, witnessed some important events; but what are these in the whole sum of the world's past.

Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

You're only as good as the sum of your parts, and one person can't be a team.

Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.

At the time I attempted to purchase the rights back for the 3 Homestead records, but the owner demanded an outrageous sum in the neighborhood of $10,000, about 10 times more money than I could get my hands on at the time.

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

I find it quite hard to sum up my relationship in a sound bite. I feel that it trivializes it for other people's pleasure. It's an adventure.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.

But that kind of falls in line; when you think about it, James Brown was a funk minimalist. All of those parts create a sum that's larger than than the individual parts.

For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism.

Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

An employee's motivation is a direct result of the sum of interactions with his or her manager.

I'll admit that I'm not quite certain how to sum up an entire year in music anymore; not when music has become so temporal, so specific and personal, as if we each have our own weather system and what we listen to is our individual forecast.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

I hate bumper stickers, you can't sum anything up. All you do is paint yourself in some caricaturist corner.

As we abide in sleep, intuitively resonating with the sum of all our experiences - this life and beyond - we gain refreshing perspective on our efforts and have an opportunity to remember what we know.

That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life.

A kind of synthesis, but with some elements that perhaps you wouldn't have expected in advance. I always like that when that happens, when something comes that is more than the sum of the parts.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.

Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious.