Sum Quotes
Sad Quotes about Sum

In three words, I can sum up everything
I've learned about life - it goes on.
- Robert Frost

Life is a sum of all your choices.
- Albert Camus

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead

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.
- Robert Foster Bennett

The sum of wisdom is that
time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism,
and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
- Leo Tolstoy

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

A conversation is greater than
the sum of its participants,
and can take on a life of its own.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Life is a series of collisions with the future;
it is not the sum of what we have been,
but what we yearn to be.
- Jose Ortega y Gasset

The Law of Triviality...
briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any
item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
- C. Northcote Parkinson

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.
- William Godwin

Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time,
devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more
than the sum of all the choices gone before?
- Joan Didion

The sum and substance of female education in America,
as in England, is training women to consider marriage
as the sole object in life,
and to pretend that they do not think so.
- Harriet Martineau

To sum up, there is no evidence that a world without
nuclear weapons would be a dangerous world.
On the contrary, it would be a safer world,
as I will show later.
- Joseph Rotblat

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.
- Murray Kempton

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

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

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

Success is the sum of details.
- Harvey S. Firestone

We believe that economics does not necessarily have to be a zero-sum game;
it can be a win-win proposition for everyone involved
so long as they have the tools in which to succeed.
- Ron Kind

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.
- Mac Thornberry

Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain.
- George Saunders

Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.
- Frank Crane

I've said this forever - I've always believed the Today
show is more than the sum of its parts.
- Jeff Zucker

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

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
- Aristotle

And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not
the sum of all that is human? Divine,
in other words?
- Henry Miller

We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended.
- Felix Adler

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

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

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

America is the sum of all our journeys as we search
for our national community and our national culture.
- Paul Tsongas

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.
- Charlie Hunter

The sum of all sums is eternity.
- Lucretius

To sum up, what has been our policy? We looked for
and found friends all throughout the world.
- Eduard Shevardnadze

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.
- Jean-Paul Sartre

The best form of government is that which is most likely
to prevent the greatest sum of evil.
- James Monroe

He is the greatest artist who has embodied,
in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
- John Ruskin

War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat.
It is zero-sum.
- Bruce Jackson

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
- Thomas Carlyle

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.
- Jeanette Winterson

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

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

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

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done,
of what he can do, Nothing else.
- John Galsworthy

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

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

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

There was an implicit conviction that the UN would
be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee

We might have been - these are but common words,
and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.
- Letitia Landon

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

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish,
must originate in the recognition of some evil that
is adding to the sum of human suffering,
or diminishing the sum of happiness.
- Clara Barton

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

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

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.
- Jimmy Wales

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

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

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.
- Lord Robertson

It is only of life on Earth, however,
that one can speak with any certainty.
It seems to me that all life on Earth,
the sum total of life upon the Earth,
has purpose.
- Clifford D. Simak

It is my aim, and every effort bent,
that the sum and history of my life,
which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too,
shall be them both: He made the books and he died.
- William Faulkner

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.
- Claiborne Pell

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

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

We are not the sum of our possessions.
- George H. W. Bush

I will say I am the sum of my books.
- V. S. Naipaul

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

We are here to add to the sum of human goodness.
To prove the thing exists.
- Josephine Hart

I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar
with the Beatles' faces on it.
It would be a collector's item now.
It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.
- Gary Oldman

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