Top 100 Quotes About Sums
#1. So long as large sums of money are involved - and they are bound to be if drugs are illegal - it is literally impossible to stop the traffic, or even to make a serious reduction in its scope.
Milton Friedman
#2. It's not reasonable for companies that have chief executives and board members who are paid very considerable sums to subsidise low pay through in-work benefits.
Boris Johnson
#3. Faffing is completely harmless, whereas its opposite - dynamic, purposeful activity - is often very harmful. Faffers do not tend to kill people or make them work 12-hour days or sell them shoddy merchandise or lend them vast sums of money that they cannot pay back.
Tom Hodgkinson
#4. Mathematics becomes very odd when you apply it to people. One plus one can add up to so many different sums
Michael Frayn
#5. The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
[Lat., Summarum summa est aeternum.]
Lucretius
#6. It is evident from the state of the country, from the habits of the people, from the experience we have had on the point itself, that it is impracticable to raise any very considerable sums by direct taxation.
Alexander Hamilton
#7. Spacetime is generated by processes in which these spin networks transform into one another, and these processes are described by sums over spinfoams. A
Carlo Rovelli
#8. The American Dream was not about government's taking huge sums of money (under the label of "taxation") from citizens by force. The American Dream was about individualism and the opportunity to achieve success without interference from others.
Robert Ringer
#9. I am very proud to be the only candidate up here who does not have a Super PAC, who's not raising huge sums of money from Wall Street.
Bernie Sanders
#10. As a lobbyist, I thought it only natural and right that my clients should reward those members who saved them such substantial sums with generous contributions. This quid pro quo became one of hallmarks of our lobbying efforts.
Jack Abramoff
#11. Have you ever heard of the law of large numbers? If you carry on betting large sums day after day, then sooner or later you are bound to win everything back. As far
Boris Akunin
#12. I got a chance to work with Stallone and De Niro - pretty much sums it up for me. You can tell where you're going in your career by the company you keep.
Kevin Hart
#13. What chiefly governs the [U.S.] military budget is the need to spend enormous sums of money in a useless way. The allegedly powerful Pentagon is simply a receptacle for wasteful expenditure, just as a city dump is the receptacle for the refuse of a city.
Walter Karp
#14. Hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.
Mortimer Collins
#15. Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me.
Rupert Everett
#16. I graduated J&W in the top ninety-three percent of my class, and I would have graduated higher, but I flunked gravy. My gravy had lumps in it, and that pretty much sums up my life so far. Not that it's been all bad; more that it hasn't been entirely smooth.
Janet Evanovich
#17. The Irish turned in on themselves and bid up their own land prices in the most extraordinary ways. The Irish people stepped in and guaranteed the banks, and committed to repay sums they can't afford to repay, and essentially committed themselves to generations of suffering.
Michael Lewis
#18. Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence? Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost, Star-eyed intelligence?
Mary C. Ames
#19. Forgetting is a very useful kind of ignorance: it wipes the bad sums off our slates.
Nanamoli Thera
#20. My favourite genre lies inside myself, and as I follow my favourite stories, characters and images, it sums up to a certain genre. So at times even I have to try to guess which genre a film will be after I've made it.
Bong Joon-ho
#21. The whole thing is so degrading! That a man like Eric should be reduced to crawling before those bloodsuckers who are taking every advantage of his weakened state. And strip himself of one whole third of his wealth to throw it away like all the huge sums they've already got out of him!
Louis Auchincloss
#22. The boom was healthy too, even with its excesses. Because what this incredible valuation craze did was draw untold sums of billions of dollars into building the Internet infrastructure. The hundreds of billions of dollars that got invested in telecommunications, for example.
Andy Grove
#23. We're investing record sums on buses and trains. We have a huge programme to encourage people to walk and cycle, and everyone up to and including the PM has been looking closely at how we can promote electric vehicles, hybrids, and other technologies.
Geoff Hoon
#24. "You know, Mouse," Tabby said, "a brilliant cat like me should have smart friends; people who can count to more than four." "I can count to more than four," answered Mouse, very offended. "And I can do hard sums, and I know geography and history, and I can knit and ... "
Ruth Park
#25. I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor.
Samuel Dash
#26. It was a dangerous profession I had chosen ... because no one likes a funny kid. In fact, adults are scared silly of them and tend to warn children who act out that they are going to wind up in prison or worse. It is only when you grow up that they pay you vast sums of money to make them laugh.
Art Buchwald
#27. Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people ... As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected.
Bertrand Russell
#28. That is a complicated matter. The heart of the tale and the ideas behind it are simple. Time has altered and condensed their nuances, made them more than story, greater than the sums of their parts. But that requires time. The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.
Erin Morgenstern
#29. I've been thinking about the cruel mathematics of my life, looking at my sums & wishing I'd shown my work.
Jonathan Evison
#30. He was disappointed that he'd never quite added up to as much as the results of his own calculations. The trouble was that he'd got his sums all wrong, but she didn't want to be the one to tell him that.
Nick Hornby
#31. That sums up my problem with Scientology - despite its claims to the contrary, the practice doesn't help you better the world or even yourself; it only helps you be a better Scientologist.
Leah Remini
#32. (before playing Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown On A Bad Bet) I couldn't really come up with a short way to sum up this song, but I was watching the movie 'Adaptation' the other day and this sort of sums it up in my head. You are not who loves you. You are who you love. Always remember that.
Pete Wentz
#33. People have always taken photos of themselves, either with camera timers or by handing their Nikons over to strangers in foreign countries and then paying large sums to get them back.
Meghan Daum
#35. If insurance companies paid for lifestyle-management classes, they would save huge sums of money. We need to see that alternative medicine is now mainstream.
Deepak Chopra
#36. That pretty much sums up our relationship: I have it. He wants it. He gets it. He ruins it.
Trish Doller
#37. It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies.
Naomi Wolf
#38. English is a curiously expressive language. Womb, room, tomb. It sums up living in three words.
Anthony Burgess
#39. I find that the most difficult thing in prose narrative is linking one thing with the other. The link might just be a sentence, or even a word. It sums up what has gone before and prepares one for what is to come.
V.S. Naipaul
#40. I want a normal girlfriend. Someone restful. You know anyone like that?"
"I'd volunteer if you were rich," I told him. "Like hugely rich. I could be restful for massive sums of money."
"Flattered. But no.
Karen Joy Fowler
#41. There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.
L. Ron Hubbard
#42. Our nearly century-long experiment in banning marijuana has failed as abysmally as Prohibition did ... In contrast, legalizing and taxing marijuana would bring in substantial sums that could be used to pay for schools, libraries or early childhood education.
Nicholas D. Kristof
#43. It is illegal for children to purchase tobacco in every state in the country. And in every state ... tobacco companies have invested enormous sums of money and time to encourage widespread lawbreaking.
John McCain
#44. Mere allocation of huge sums of money for quality will not bring quality.
W. Edwards Deming
#45. Nobody telling everybody about somebody." This sums up the Great Commission quite succinctly.
Matthew Everhard
#46. The world sums you up by the clothes that you wear, and treats you accordingly.
Al Koran
#47. Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into the nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas.
Thomas Wolfe
#48. System 1 represents sets by averages, norms, and prototypes, not by sums. Each
Daniel Kahneman
#50. Nowadays you need so much money to be able to launch a new artist, notably in America; you would hardly believe the sums involved.
Giorgio Moroder
#51. Opening the book is a quotation from the National Conference of Catholic Bishops that sums up the Prager-Telushkin view: It was Judaism that brought the concept of a God-given universal moral law into the world ... The Jew carries the burden of God in history [and] for this has never been forgiven.
George Gilder
#52. Large sums were paid for the use of money, because the available amount of gold and silver was far less than was needed to carry on the commercial transactions of the times.
John Buchanan Robinson
#54. This idea of how everything is interconnected, and the impermanence of things.. It sums up the human condition to me, and it helps me on my path.
Jeff Bridges
#55. Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me that sums up so much of what people felt after 9/11 - confusion even. And I think that's hard to capture in journalism.
Amy Waldman
#56. a favourite couplet of Dunbar's sums up his view of the whole duty and delight of Man:
Man, please thy Maker and be merry
And give not for this world a cherry.
Jocelyn Gibb
#57. What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is, the name which to many people stands for and sums up an art form.
Robert Gottlieb
#58. All Negroes shall be prohibited from voting, holding public office, practicing law, medicine, or teaching in any class above the grade of grammar school, and they shall be taxed 100 per cent of all sums in excess of $10,000 per family per year which they may earn or in any other manner receive.
Sinclair Lewis
#59. Today, we don't blink an eye when the world's wealthiest individuals donate enormous sums of money to charitable causes. In fact, we expect them to do so.
Peter Diamandis
#60. Done any exciting sums lately?"
"I don't just do sums," Miles told her. "There's much more to my life than that."
"Is there?" Alicia asked, trying to sound interested.
"Yes," said Miles. "Sometimes I draw graphs.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#61. Larger sums may be an advantage at some cases and a disadvantage at others.
Warren Buffett
#62. If wars create vast sums of money for the global elite, is it possible the Soviets, the Viet Cong and Muslim extremists were, or are, also fabricated enemies of the West along with North Korea? Or at least exaggerated threats?
James Morcan
#63. They say that doing ten sums a day prevents you from becoming senile. But by that argument bankers should be geniuses. That's not right. Thickest heads in the world.
Annie Proulx
#64. No, we haven't stopped the spread of pirated music or movies online, nor have we slowed it even slightly. But we do get paid pornographically vast sums for trying our very best.
Rob Reid
#65. In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#66. It seems, then, we are forced to believe in a real Right and Wrong. People may be sometimes mistaken about them, just as people sometimes get their sums wrong, but they are not a matter of mere taste and opinion any more than the multiplication table.
C.S. Lewis
#67. If just a tiny fraction of the sums spent on scientific and technological research and innovation were devoted to labs for designing and testing new organizational and institutional structures, we might have a much broader range of options to head off the looming implosion.
Alvin Toffler
#68. To all that is used-up, and to all the muffled and dumb creatures in the world's full reserve, the unsayable sums, joyfully add yourself, and cancel the count.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#69. Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
Agatha Christie
#70. You don't have to worry about me pressuring you. You say stop, we stop." That sums it up without me having to over explain. "But I'll never complain if you cop a feel above or below.
Katie McGarry
#71. When you give away large sums of money, you can cause as much damage as you may do good.
Paul Mellon
#72. My own interest in art was because of my mother. My father didn't like contemporary art, so he didn't give her large sums to spend. So, she began buying prints and drawings. During my school days, I remember sitting in on many of the early meetings.
David Rockefeller
#73. Some actors go, 'Bing!' and suddenly they're being paid huge sums. Me, I seem to get screwed every time.
Matthew Goode
#74. The coolest thing is when you don't care about being cool anymore. Indifference is the greatest aphrodisiac - that's what really sums up style for me.
Rick Owens
#75. It is a disturbing fact that Western civilization, which claims to have achieved the highest standard of health in history, finds itself compelled to spend ever-increasing sums for the control of disease.
Rene Dubos
#76. The concept that you are not ingesting rotting flesh sort of sums it up for me.
Bryan Adams
#77. What barely seemed to register with him was that those regular people were earning large sums of money off him, off the Dutchman with his summer home and his money, and it was in part for that reason that they continued to exercise a modicum of courtesy.
Herman Koch
#78. At a time of massive inequality, I think we can raise substantial sums of revenue to address the needs of working families, the elderly, and the children, by asking those people who are doing phenomenally well to start paying their fair share.
Bernie Sanders
#79. So why is a third of our world battling obesity and spending huge sums to burn off excess calories, while the other two-thirds yearn to get more of them?
Wess Stafford
#80. They used to complain at school that I looked out of the window for long periods of time - that sums up my life. I like to look out the window, do nothing, daydream.
Ritchie Blackmore
#81. I believe that when an elder dies, a library is burned: vast sums of wisdom and knowledge are lost. Throughout the world libraries are ablaze with scant attention.
Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey
#82. My life's work has been to prompt others and be forgotten. Remember that night when Christian came to your balcony? That moment sums up my life. While I was below in the shadows, others climbed up to kiss the sweet rose.
Cyrano De Bergerac
#83. The New Frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises, it is a set of challenges.
It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them.
John F. Kennedy
#84. While vast sums of money are being siphoned off into hidden [military] coffers, Americas schools, hospitals and public services are facing cutbacks and closures.
Henry Waxman
#85. For centuries, cultures throughout the world have used indigenous technologies to navigate life's complexities. From navigator-priests in Micronesia to mystics in India, vast sums of knowledge are available if we but recognize it.
Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey
#86. Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.
Ben Hecht
#87. We urge the beginner in security buying not to waste his efforts and his money in trying to beat the market. Let him study security values and initially test out his judgment on price versus value with the smallest possible sums.
Benjamin Graham
#88. Shit," Drake rubbed a hand over his face. Shit, shit, shit...
"Shit," Drake said again....
"That about sums it up," Gabriel muttered.
Katie Reus
#89. As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method of investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes.
John Maynard Keynes
#90. There have always been two ways to be rich: by accumulating vast sums or by needing very little.
Ethan Hawke
#91. It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums of money to get rid of.
Shirley Hazzard
#92. Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man's entire relation to God and to his neighbor.
Aelred Of Rievaulx
#93. Your blood for mine. If not these, then those. War is the supreme mathematics problem. It strains our skulls, yet we work out the sums, believing we have pressed the most monstrous quantities into a balanced equation.
Barbara Kingsolver
#94. Do you think the Bible is accurate? I mean, do you think it's real?"
"I think Pastor Calvin is hot. In a fortysomething way. That pretty much sums up my religious conviction.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#95. So we're damned if we do and damned if we don't." She shrugged. "That pretty much sums up quantum physics.
James Rollins
#96. In a start-up society, huge sums can fall on innocent parties, almost by accident .
Bruce Sterling
#97. Good in Crisis; Sucks at Normal.' That about sums up my whole life, doesn't it?
Neal Shusterman
#98. Recognition is what you feel when a friend sums up exactly what you're feeling, when an author gives you the right words, when someone "gets" you.
Laurie A. Helgoe
#99. Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite.
George Eliot
#100. But now men who could work preferred to beg, and the artists forgot that their calling was noble and became imitators instead of creators, charging exorbitant sums for the rubbish they churned out with one eye closed.
Pauline Gedge
