Top 100 Sum Of Quotes
#1. Every photograph is a realization of one of the possibilities contained within the program of the camera. The number of such possibilities is large, but it is nevertheless finite. It is the sum of all those photographs that can be taken by a camera.
Douglas Huebler
#2. Art is precisely that condition which pertains when, after all analysis and reduction to parts has taken place, there remains a 'quality' which is more than the sum of those parts, which could not exist in any other form, and which cannot be caught, or held, or contained.
Douglas Portway
#3. Cities are more than the sum of their infrastructure. They transcend brick and mortar, concrete and steel. They're the vessels into which human knowledge is poured.
Rick Yancey
#4. Really, Dad. I understand now about the whole being greater than the sum of the parts.
Wendelin Van Draanen
#5. Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.
Oscar Wilde
#6. A painting is more than the sum of its parts,' he would tell me, and then go on to explain how the cow by itself is just a cow, and the meadow by itself is just grass and flowers, and the sun peeking through the trees is just a beam of light, but put them all together and you've got magic.
Wendelin Van Draanen
#7. Let them say what they want. I will not demand that the Jewish Agency allocate a sum of 300,000 or 100,000 pounds sterling to help European Jewry. And I think that whoever demands such things is performing an anti-Zionist act.
Yitzhak Gruenbaum
#8. The sum of all the things we shouldn't have done in our lives is enough to kill us with the weight.
Tarryn Fisher
#9. With digital sound just becomes simply information, not the sum of its parts.
Andrew Bird
#10. No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the sum of his knowledge.
Ayn Rand
#11. I am the sum of my past experience.
Some people have got a lot to answer for.
Peter James West
#12. She said you are not the sum of your loyalties, you are the sum of your choices.
Yoon Ha Lee
#13. A place is more than the sum of its physical parts; it's a repository for memories, a record and retainer of all that has happened within its boundaries.
Kate Morton
#14. Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire.
William Faulkner
#15. America is the sum of all our journeys as we search for our national community and our national culture.
Paul Tsongas
#16. The sum of things to be known is inexhaustible, and however long we read, we shall never come to the end of our story-book.
(Introductory lecture as professor of Latin at University College, London, 3 October 1892)
A.E. Housman
#17. She was one of the few things abhorrent to him that he could touch and therefore hurt. He poured out on her the sum of all his inarticulate fury and aborted desires. Hating her, he could leave himself intact.
Toni Morrison
#18. She knew that she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had known.
Ayn Rand
#20. Knowing less than the sum of what I remembered and forgot, only blank, preciously empty but for pleasure.
C.D. Reiss
#21. If the market does indeed embody the sum of all human wishes, then the secret ones are just as important as the ones that are openly displayed,
Eric Schlosser
#22. The sum of all the current regulations presents ever increasing hurdles.
Scott Rigell
#23. Manic depression is the result of the sum of repetitiveness in life and expecting a different result.
Pieter Swaenepoel
#24. It seems that tears and laughter, love and hate, make up the sum of life!
Zora Neale Hurston
#25. As a team, they were unbeatable and far more than the sum of their parts.
Ron Chernow
#26. If, at the end of my days, the sum of what I've taken exceeds the sum of what I've given, then I have lived in vain.
Doug Rice
#27. Truly a good horse, good ground to gallop on, and sunshine, make up the sum of enjoyable travelling.
Isabella L. Bird
#28. I wanted the camera to actually observe the people who come from the outside to live inside a country, instead of fantasizing about them. Also, I wanted to say the sum of who we become is thanks to the people we meet. I wanted to make a positive film.
Danielle Arbid
#29. The sum of all sums is eternity.
Lucretius
#30. We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father's love for us and our real capacity to become the image of His Son Jesus.
Pope John Paul II
#31. In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.
Edward Abbey
#32. It is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its various parts.
Max Planck
#33. The kingdom is here. We are in it. The "sum of money" that we are left with is not something to be guarded, protected, and kept safe, but put to good use.
Eugene H. Peterson
#36. There comes a point when you have to realize that the sum of all your blood, sweat, and tears will ultimately amount to zero.
Max Brooks
#37. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Aristotle.
#38. While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life.
Theodore Roosevelt
#39. The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.
George Eliot
#40. It is important for children to learn that they are the sum of those who have come before them.
Wally Lamb
#41. The end of a life is the sum of the love that was lived in it,
Cassandra Clare
#43. How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them!
If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand.
Psalms 139
#44. Five men and two women, strangers to one another on the eve of that final growing season, now bound by the unspoken promise that the least of them was greater than the sum of all of them.
Rick Yancey
#45. To outsiders it probably seems like splitting hairs, but to me, Bright Eyes is a simply the collaboration between myself and Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott. What you hear is definitely the sum of all our ideas and represents all three of us. But I still write the songs myself.
Conor Oberst
#46. As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.
Gary Hamel
#47. It was astonishing to think that life had once been the sum of her current love-affairs. It was now the sum of her current problems.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#48. Da thought of people as books to be read, but I've always thought of them more as formulas- full of variables, but always the sum of their parts.
Victoria Schwab
#49. As it happens, I think that in really good stories, the whole is always greater than the sum of the parts.
Stephen King
#50. You are much more than the sum of what you produce.
Jennifer James
#51. Who you are, what you think, feel, and do, what you love - is the sum of what you focus on.
Cal Newport
#52. Our pasts might shape us, but they weren't the end sum of us.
Jeaniene Frost
#53. We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists.
Josephine Hart
#54. A culture is the sum of all the things about which humanity can choose to differ.
Brian Eno
#55. We are the sum of our thoughts. What you choose to dwell on will dictate your emotions.
James Patterson
#56. We are mathematical equations where your life is the sum of all choices you've made until now. The good news is you can change the equation so that you start making a difference in your life.
Steve Maraboli
#57. The sum of all technical knowledge cannot make a master contract player.
Ely Culbertson
#59. Children are rarely in the position to lend one a truly interesting sum of money. There are, however, exceptions, and such children are an excellent addition to any party.
Fran Lebowitz
#60. We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions
Barack Obama
#61. ... [Thomas Wolfe] says that we are the sum of all the moments of our lives, and that, uh, anybody who sits down to write is gonna use the clay of their own life, that you can't avoid that.
Richard Linklater
#62. Public opinion, the sum of private opinions, does matter, can matter often for good.
Sybille Bedford
#63. When we see that the whole sum of our salvation, and every single part of it, are comprehended in Christ, we must beware of deriving even the minutest portion of it from any other quarter.
John Calvin
#64. A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves.
Ambrose Bierce
#66. This is the sum of duty: do naught to others which if done to thee, would cause thee pain.
Vyasa
#67. A nation is the sum of its memories, and when those memories are allowed to die, it is less of a nation.
Peter Hitchens
#68. A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
John Galsworthy
#69. The work produced is a thing among things, able to be experienced and described as a sum of qualities. But from time to time it can face the receptive beholder in its whole embodied form.
Martin Buber
#70. Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has proved that if two black holes unite, the surface area of the final black hole must exceed the sum of the surface areas of the initial black holes. For these reasons the total black-hole portion of the universe is ever increasing.
Clifford A. Pickover
#71. That God is the sum of all created things. Nature and God are one, so that whoever touches a leaf or a stone touches God. That is of course to degrade the glory of the incorruptible Deity and, in an effort to make all things divine, banish all divinity from the world entirely.
A.W. Tozer
#72. QUOTIENT, n. A number showing how many times a sum of money belonging to one person is contained in the pocket of another - usually about as many times as it can be got there.
Ambrose Bierce
#73. In a brief court proceeding in 1966 the boy's mother had her son declared legally dead so she could enter into possession of Edward Corcoran's savings account. The account contained a sum of sixteen dollars.
Stephen King
#74. I believe that software, and in fact entire companies, should be run in a way that assumes that the sum of the talent of people outside your walls is greater than the sum of the few you have inside. None of us are as smart as all of us.
Matt Mullenweg
#75. Our lives are no more than the sum of manifold contingencies, and no matter how diverse they might be in their details, they all share an essential randomness in their design: this then that, and because of that, this.
Paul Auster
#76. I am a lover of truth; and if you think of truth as being multifaceted and so huge that we human beings can't fully comprehend it, then obviously it makes sense to put all the facts together - to compare disciplines and try to advance the sum of knowledge by exploration and examination.
Susan Howatch
#77. Who can describe
Women's hypocrisies! their subtle wiles,
Betraying smiles, feign'd tears, inconstancies!
Their painted outsides, and corrupted minds,
The sum of all their follies, and their falsehoods.
Thomas Otway
#78. We should revel in the joy of believing that God is the sum of all patience and the true essence of kindly good will!
A.W. Tozer
#79. 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
#80. Almost every man who has by his life-work added to the sum of human achievement of which the race is proud, of which our people are proud, almost every such man has based his life-work largely upon the teachings of the Bible
Theodore Roosevelt
#81. The sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and hope." ~Edmond Dantes
Alexandre Dumas
#82. Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved
Andre Malraux
#83. We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.
Theodore Roosevelt
#84. If there was a God," I said, "I'd say with confidence that he hates me. Because my life is the sum of bad things. The more people you let in, the more bad you let in.
Tarryn Fisher
#85. Who am I? The sum of your dreams, the thrill you refuse to grasp, the unknown you fear.
Neal Shusterman
#86. The more elevated a culture, the richer its language. The number of words and their combinations depends directly on a sum of conceptions and ideas; without the latter there can be no understandings, no definitions, and, as a result, no reason to enrich a language.
Anton Chekhov
#87. You allowed me existence, which is the sum of what one can demand of his fellow-beings
George MacDonald
#88. We are what we have been told about ourselves. We are the sum of the messages we have received. The true messages. The false messages.
Donald Barthelme
#89. A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees.
Kurt Vonnegut
#90. Reading poetry and watching cricket were the sum of my world, and the two are not so far apart as many aesthetes might believe.
Donald Bradman
#92. The refractory pupil of Socrates, Aristippus the Cyrene, who believed happiness to be the sum of particular pleasures and golden moments and not, as Epicurus, a prolonged intermediary state between ecstasy and pain.
Cyril Connolly
#93. 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
#94. I think there's a reason why wine figures into so many religions. There's something transcendent about it. It's sort of the way that music is more than the sum of its parts. You have all these elements that make up the terroir that wine can communicate.
Maynard James Keenan
#95. WARNING: SUM OF DIS CHAPTA IS XTREMLY SCRAY. VIOWER EXCRETION ADVISD
Tara Gilesbie
#96. My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others' negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.
Steve Jobs
#97. Each work of criticism is supposed to build on the body of work, to increase the total sum of human understanding. It's not like filling your house with more and more beautiful wicker baskets. It's supposed to be cumulative - it believes in progress.
Elif Batuman
#98. I learned that Congress is a place with more heart than courage; there are more good souls in Washington than brave ones. I learned that the whole is not always the sum of its parts: that what you put in doesn't always match what you get out.
Joaquin Castro
#99. The more a man loves, the more he suffers. The sum of possible grief for each soul is in proportion to its degree of perfection.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#100. Whoever after due and proper warning shall be heard to utter the abominable word "Frisco", which has no linguistic or other warrant, shall be deemed guilty of High Misdemeanour, and shall pay into the Imperial Treasury as penalty the sum of twenty-five dollars.
Emperor Norton
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