Quotes About Summa

#1. The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
[Lat., Summarum summa est aeternum.]

Lucretius

#2. The Summa Theologiae is not, as is sometimes supposed, a potpourri of theology and philosophy; it is wholly a Summa of Theology concerned with the Sacra Doctrina, the Holy Teaching of salvation given by God's revelation.

Brian Davies

#3. In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.

Mary Kay Ash

#4. Love is a bridge that links us heart to heart Mother and child can never live apart.

Maud Lindsay

#5. I was sort of shocked when it all of a sudden turned out that I got all A's through college, with the exception of two B's in the first term. I never envisaged myself as summa cum laude.

Alan Greenspan

#6. Wonder is defined by Thomas [Aquinas] in the Summa Theologiae [I-II, Q. 32, a. 8], as the desiderium sciendi, the desire for knowledge, active longing to know.

Josef Pieper

#7. If you smile at everyone," she said, "how am I supposed to feel when you smile at me?"
"How do you feel when I smile at you?" he asked - and then he did smile at her, just a little.
Not like myself, Cath thought.
"Like an idiot," she said softly. "And like I never want it to stop.

Rainbow Rowell

#8. In man, social intercourse has centred mainly on the process of absorbing fluid into the organism, but in the domestic dog and to a lesser extent among all wild canine species, the act charged with most social significance is the excretion of fluid.

Olaf Stapledon

#9. We would be billionaires, but we took responsibility for Summa's failure.

Edwin Soeryadjaya

#10. I have supped full with horrors.

William Shakespeare

#11. Television is a passivity.

John Green

#12. To eat at another's table is your ambition's height.
[Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra.]

Juvenal

#13. When you compete with good people, it makes everybody better.

Leeza Gibbons

#14. Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.

Richard Serra

#15. I loved school, maybe too much, really. I was summa cum laude in high school. I was driven that way.

Robin Williams

#16. Today, if I could get a job, with face tattoos, being a professor, I would do that. I don't know what university would hire me, but that's my passion.

Al Jourgensen

#17. I don't think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.

Bill Keller

#18. This is a man who graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in three years, editor of the Harvard Law Review, argued 39 cases before the Supreme Court.

Rod Parsley

#19. I never go to the gym - I can't be doing with it. But I run up and down the stairs, wash my feet in the basin to keep supple, and I don't eat things that have a pulse.

Joanna Lumley

#20. Knowledge depends on the mode of the knower; for what is known is in the knower according to the measure of his mode

Thomas Aquinas

#21. Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent (How often the greatest talents are shrouded in obscurity)

Plautus

#22. If I don't have a woman every three days or so I get a terrible headache.

John F. Kennedy

#23. I went to a haunted house once, and I don't do well in situations like that, and I've lived my entire life not being scared or anything.

Katie Chang

#24. Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out.

Matthew Broderick

#25. Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University.

Patricia Clarkson