Add Up Quotes

#1. So we listen. We add up associations of people with people. When a push against Scientology starts somewhere, we go over the people involved and weed them out. Push vanishes.

L. Ron Hubbard

#2. Commissions add up, taxes are a big drag, margin ain't cheap. A good accountant costs money as well. The math on this one is obvious, yet investors often fail to recognize it: Keep your costs low and your turnover lower, and you will win in the end.

Barry Ritholtz

#3. Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to do a sculpture - you either add or you subtract.

Urs Fischer

#4. At midlife, you're pregnant with the best self you can be - someone who has learned enough from both successes and failures to add up to a fine human being.

Marianne Williamson

#5. And when you grow up one day," her mother would always add, "you might be lucky enough to be shot by someone you love.

Carolyn Cohagan

#6. [...] The little everyday neglect of imagining other people well can add up to a lifetime of flawed, perverted vision, an expenditure of soul in a waste of emotionalism.

David Dark

#7. If the humanities were science, the vocabularies of the world's languages would add up, not overlap.

Thorsten J. Pattberg

#8. I may have had moments of regret in my life, but you know, they wouldn't add up to an hour.

Emma Donoghue

#9. Forget the fake syrupy stuff. Melt down a bar of chocolate, mix it into some warmed up whipping cream, and put it on top of ice cream. Add some sprinkles, and you've got a delicious treat.

Blake Lively

#10. If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.

A.R. Ammons

#11. Mathematics becomes very odd when you apply it to people. One plus one can add up to so many different sums

Michael Frayn

#12. I don't think your girlfriend likes me." Putting on the most bored face I can muster, I add deadpan, "I'm torn up." Shaking his head at me, he mutters, "Yeah, I can see that.

Belle Aurora

#13. If you were to gather all the minutes wasted on insignificant, immaterial yik yak spent throughout the day and add them up, how much misspent time do you think you'd have? One hour? Two hours? Consider the sunk cost on that. It's unacceptable. One minute wasted is one minute too much.

Ari Gold

#14. Men are like dogs, Stacy was fond of saying. And she usually went on to add that, like dogs, they all took up too much space on the bed, and they always went for the crotch.

Lisa Kleypas

#15. What good is being a math genius if your life doesn't add up?

Marty Rubin

#16. Leave it to a writer's mind to add two and two together and come up with 69.

Stjepan Sejic

#17. If you put the talent of all my brothers together, they wouldn't add up to the talent that was in my father.

David Cassidy

#18. Great Benefactor! How absurd- to want pain! Can there be anyone who doesn't know that pain is a negative quality, and that if you add them up it reduces the sum we call happiness? so it follows ...
But ... nothing follows. The slate is clean. Naked.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#19. I should estimate that in my experience most troubles and most possibilities for improvement add up to the proportions something like this: 94% belongs to the system responsibility of management 6% special

W. Edwards Deming

#20. I've always had those little goals that I've worked toward-They add up.

Stacy Allison

#21. Seemingly small choices and small actions add up over time.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#22. Life is stretching to achieve goals, and exploring new things, and struggling to overcome obstacles. Life is not just breathing in and out. I think immortality would make all these things that add up to our lives hollow and meaningless.

Kevin McDonald

#23. Sometimes you learn your best lessons when you add up all your losses." She

Robyn Carr

#24. There is a mathematics to all his relationships, underlying each and every one. He wants it to all add up in his head and he wants to do the adding. And should someone step outside his ciphers, the circle his mind has drawn, his trust evaporates.

Geoffrey Wood

#25. The leader's commandment is made up of pledges to solve local and global problems, and not to create more problems to add to the existing ones.

Israelmore Ayivor

#26. The travels before and after the tour are what add up to what you're doing. You are really called into service - and it's the service industry man, it's blue collar man, I'm sweating by the second song. It's construction work from that second song on.

David Lee Roth

#27. I sing in many different colors and, hopefully, they add up to a great performance that, after you leave the theater, makes you feel like I've really shared something of myself.

Idina Menzel

#28. Don't just dream about grandiose acts of doing good. Every day do small ones, that add up over time to positive patterns.

Marian Wright Edelman

#29. You know," Kabe tugged his shirt off and tossed it on the floor. "The whole innocent thing is kinda cute."
Shirt halfway up my middle, I stopped.
"I'm nothing like cute." My glare told him I'd hurt him if kept it up.
"Me and cute don't add up.

James Buchanan

#30. A new thing I've been doing is just making sure I clear off my desk and try to only touch a piece of paper once, so I get the mail, open it up, deal with it then. My son's homework, or what I get from his teachers, the same way. That way, it's not nagging me, things to add to my to-do list.

Adina Porter

#31. 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

#32. Sit up, speak with boldness about what you know, and add value that would be absent from the table if you remained silent. Take your opportunity to add your unique talents and skills to the mix.

Steve Harvey

#33. Just wonderin', waitin', worryin' about some silly little things, that just don't add up to nothin'.

Tom Petty

#34. If you're able to build from your falls you'll be unstoppable and damn near fearless. You see, every time you fall down and get back up, you add another piece of body armor to yourself. You learn what not to do, how to do better, and how to create comfort through practice.

Chris Hardwick

#35. One of the great bonuses of being a film actor is that I get to go to different places, meet inspiring people and learn different things. So all those details add up.

Nicolas Cage

#36. Love is a succession of the smallest things that add up to be everything

P.J. Bayliss

#37. I want a years-worth of seconds and minutes with you. I want a decade's worth of hours, so many that I can't add them up.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#38. Age is just a number, the sum of which took me years to add up.

Jack Chalk

#39. motherhood is like this: a series of tiny moments that add up to an enormous love, with lots of other moments of frustration and misunderstanding and complexity woven in between.

Allison Winn Scotch

#40. When people want to sound smart, they add syllables to words, words to sentences, sentences to paragraphs, paragraphs to books. They try to make up in quantity and complexity what they lack in quality. That's bullshit! They're just hiding their bullshit!

Robert McKee

#41. Because women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men make. Those pennies add up to real money.

Lilly Ledbetter

#42. Life is all about chances. It's all about these little moments that add up to greatness. And there are times when you have to grab greatness by the balls and say, 'Hey! Greatness! I've got your nuts and you can't do a single godsdamn thing about it!

T.J. Klune

#43. I don't think of myself as a comedian, but as an artist, a scientist and chemist who just happens to be funny. I started doing stand-up to add another level to my game. I feel that I'm a young rookie with a veteran's skill.

Marlon Wayans

#44. Layering is always a great way to look different and to keep your look younger. Basic tees, vest tops, jackets, leggings, shrugs, etc, can be mixed up to add spunk, variety and colour to your look. A good sense of mix 'n' match is required to make this look work.

Tena Desae

#45. Possibilities don't add up, they multiply.

Paul Romer

#46. Joni Mitchell had it right: "They paved paradise / and put up a parking lot." But perhaps, in the near future, we could add a line of hopeful epilogue to that song: then they tore down the parking lot / and raised up a paradise

Richard Louv

#47. Though I believe math is a tool of the Enemy, I learned enough to know that to accurately find the sum, you add up all the parts.

Jen Hatmaker

#48. If you add up all the federal and you look at the disability and the unemployment and the Social Security and the state, my tax rate's 62, 63 percent. So I've got to make some decisions on what I'm going to do.

Phil Mickelson

#49. It is futile to try to make the universe add up. But I guess we must go on anyhow.

Philip K. Dick

#50. You married a borderline psychotic who conquered the brutal circumstances he grew up in by being even more brutal. Add turning into a vampire and centuries of undead power struggles, and you have the crazy cruel bastard you fell in love with.

Jeaniene Frost

#51. She had a great many opinions , but taken together they did not add up to a point of view .

V.S. Naipaul

#52. A sense that even if every scrap of a life were saved, thrown into a giant mound and then carefully sifted to extract all possible meaning, it would not add up to a life.

Siri Hustvedt

#53. Writing adds up to the conscience of our times.

Martin Firrell

#54. For what is history, but ... huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as if we were holding up a monument to the honor, rather than the infamy of our species.

Washington Irving

#55. In the long run, our most deeply held desires will govern our choices, one by one and day by day, until our lives finally add up to what we have really wanted most
for good or otherwise. We can indeed have eternal life, if we really want it, so long as we don't want something else more.

Bruce C. Hafen

#56. ..Look out at the nothing and feel it looking back. Then you know exactly how much you add up to.

Amie Kaufman

#57. Put all these numbers together and what do they add up to? In a sentence: We are the healthiest, wealthiest, and longest-lived people in history. And we are increasingly afraid. This is one of the great paradoxes of our time.

Daniel Gardner

#58. Millions do not always add up to what a man needs out of life.

Aristotle Onassis

#59. Never gonna forget a single day, baby. Good and bad, they all add up to the story of us. I'm gonna take everyone one and cherish it, come what may.

J.T. Geissinger

#60. How do you know if you're making the right decision?
Easy. Just like two and two always add up to four, kindness and forgiveness is always right, hate and revenge is always wrong.

Fannie Flagg

#61. I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.

Adam Gopnik

#62. But there are some things we shouldn't forget, and mostly they add up to where we came from and how we got here and the stories we told ourselves on the way.

Terry Pratchett

#63. How then did it work out, this? How did one judge people, think of them? How did one add up this and that and conclude that it was liking one felt, or disliking?

Virginia Woolf

#64. The rise of the Earth's temperature, causing sea level increases that could add up to one foot over the next 30 years, threatens the very existence of New Orleans.

Ray Nagin

#65. It's not just the words we speak in a moment, but the weight of words over the course of time that matters. The words you choose every day add up. You are the words you speak, whether that's constructive or destructive.

Adriana Locke

#66. I would add entertainment media cheerleader Wolf Blitzer, CNN's Pentagon sycophant in Kuwait City, a representative of the neon press, neon being that colorless, inert gas that lights up on command.

Stan Goff

#67. Realize that the social media success equation isn't big moves on the chess board, it's little moves made every day that eventually add up to a major shift.

Jay Baer

#68. You can add up your blessings or add up your troubles. Either way, you'll find you have an abundance.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#69. The ledger of my life can lean heavy with a prolific array of stellar investments, yet in the tallying I would be wise to remember that an investment that is not of God will leave a zero balance on the ledger of my life no matter how many different ways I try to add it up.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#70. Each secret you carry has a weight all its own. They add up, secrets, to a burden you must carry all your days.

Ed Greenwood

#71. And of course you want the days to add up to something more than you came in and out of the sun and drank the potable water of your developed world

Claudia Rankine

#72. If you're troubled by the fact that 80/10 doesn't add up to 100, you've discovered the second confusing thing about the Rule. The 80 and the 20 are percentages of different things, and thus don't need to equal 100.

Chris Anderson

#73. I got a feeling your statements are true but all they add up to is one big lie.

Vincent Gardenia

#74. I use a lot of fresh citrus, garlic, and fresh herbs when cooking to cut down on fat and sodium but punch up flavor. Our cupboards and fridge are full of condiments - mustards, vinegars, etc. that also add tons of flavor but are low in fat, calories, or other processed additives.

Cat Cora

#75. Math? Forget about it. If I add four plus eight plus six, I have to count on my fingers. I guess I'm hooked up differently.

Jeff Dunham

#76. If it turns out that Barry Bonds used steroids to bulk up and add muscle mass, he could get four to eight years as governor of California

Argus Hamilton

#77. Sitting at a candidate rally is similar to sitting in a ballyard. Both give you the opportunity to assess the technical metrics and reflect on the intangibles - what baseball calls 'make up' and politics calls 'character' - the leadership, talent and maturity to add value to a venture.

Christine Pelosi

#78. One of the subtle distinctions between the different types of knowledge is what we might call knowing-that (for example, knowing that 7 + 3 = 10) and knowing-how (for example, knowing how to add 7 units to 3 units and end up with 10 units).

Lionel Fanthorpe

#79. You have to move in life, but the loyalty you develop in a community is always remembered. But if you leave, you don't pick it up in the next town. It's not an add-on, you know, because you lose what you had.

Richard DeVos

#80. This is a deep and personal topic in our society today. Read the papers. America is hurting because of it. For God's sake, speak up. Don't we need to learn respect for people's feelings? What is going to school for? To learn how to add?

Hal Holbrook

#81. Increasing your repertoire has the advantage that you don't have to give up enjoying what you already like: it is always easier to add new behaviors than to deny your deepest desires.

Dossie Easton

#82. When the deeds that you do don't add up to zero.

Bob Dylan

#83. Stop jacking with me, Dad. All I ever wanted was the truth."
"That's the problem. People think if they can add up all the facts, they'll end up with the truth, but that's like sewin' body parts together in the hopes you'll get a man.

Carolee Dean

#84. If I'm reading something and a word pops up, or I just catch it, I try to mark it off and then, later, write it down on a piece of paper and add it to my list.

Robert Barry

#85. He could deal with his guilt all by himself. Guilt didn't add up to love, an emotion she was done with forever.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#86. I have come to the realization that history is not a fixed thing, a collection of precise dates, facts and events (even cogent commencement quotes) that add up to a quantifiable, certain, confidently known, truth. It is a mysterious and malleable thing.

Ken Burns

#87. The church can proscribe anything and everything it wants to, but the church is still made up entirely of human beings. Heaping rule upon rule on our congregations isn't going to make anyone holier. It'll serve only to add to the guilt that is endemic in our churches.

Tiffany Reisz

#88. It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression.

Cary Grant

#89. We gather the things we learned, and they don't nearly add up to fill the space of a life.
You will miss the taste of Froot Loops.
You will miss the sound of traffic.
You will miss your back against his.
You will miss him stealing the sheets.
Do not ignore these things.

David Levithan

#90. I have nightmares about hell, where all I do is add up numbers and try to have conversations with people like you.

Jim Butcher

#91. Multiply your death, divide by sex, add up your violence, what do you get?

Marilyn Manson

#92. I failed everything in school. I left when I was 13 because I had no comprehension of what the hell they were talking about up there at the blackboard. I must have that ADD thing. But, listening to people I thought, that's wonderful to be able to tell a story.

Malachy McCourt

#93. Not all time in life is equal. How many opportunities do you get to talk about what your life is going to add up to with people thinking about the same question?

James C. Collins

#94. We never know where life is going to lead, Ethan. What so many small decisions are going to add up to.

Ali Standish

#95. Pick up a grain a day and add to your heap. You will soon learn, by happy experience, the power of littles as applied to intellectual processes and gains.

John Seely Hart

#96. I'm just looking for the best story being told by the best people and the best part that I can find. If those things add up, I want to be a part of it whether it's a studio film or, more likely in that instance, an independent film.

John Hawkes

#97. All the world, as a matter of fact, is a mosaic of little places invisible to the powers that be. And in the eyes of the powers that be all these invisible places do not add up to a visible place. They add up to words and numbers.

Wendell Berry

#98. You will be a grand total of what you spend your time doing in your life--so what do you want to add up to?

Kimberley Tait

#99. I'm always trying to find 'connections' between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable.

Pat Metheny

#100. When you wake up tomorrow, another day is behind you. The days add up; the weeks run together; the months become years.

John Grisham