Sum Quotes

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 am the sum total of everything that I have experienced musically.

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.

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.

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.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

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.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.

In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.

In sum, as we enter the 21st century, the Euro-Atlantic community - North America and Europe together - has to face some tough challenges when it comes to improving our capability.

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

Look everywhere you can to cut a little bit from your expenses. It will all add up to a meaningful sum.

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

It's too easy to sum up a person's character in one negative instant, and it doesn't put anything good out into the world.