Sum Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

They're paying me an outrageous sum of money; $40,000 a week, which is totally silly.

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

I have always felt that I am the sum total of my parts.

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.

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.

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.

Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.

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

If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.

I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: 'steady as she goes'.

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.

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

Possibly you are not aware of the fact that the largest sum given by any contributor to the fund is but a trifle when compared with the losses suffered by nearly all the firms in the cotton trade during the disastrous years of the American war.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art.

What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.