Summa's Quotes

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

Edwin Soeryadjaya

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

Robin Williams

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

Patricia Clarkson

#4. Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.

Anton Chekhov

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

Plautus

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. Everyone has a yoke that binds them.

E.M. Ragland

#9. For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.

John Le Carre

#10. Is it unreasonable to have proof of citizenship when entering another country?

Gwen Ifill

#11. I was Minnie Mouse for Halloween, every year when I was little. Then, I had the Cinderella nightgown, when I was really little, that I begged my mother to wear to school. I was also Snow White a lot.

Sarah Silverman

#12. We must continue in prayer if we are to get an outpouring of the Spirit. Christ says there are some things we shall not get, unless we pray and fast, yes, "prayer and fasting." We must control the flesh and abstain from whatever hinders direct fellowship with God.

Bonar Law

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

Juvenal

#14. In 1961, when Maris broke Babe Ruth's record, he wasn't intentionally walked once. Mickey batted after Roger, and nobody was going to put a man on base with Mantle coming up to the plate.

Mel Allen

#15. An accompanied, busy man's goodness is complimented and is absorbed in the compliment but a solitary man's goodness compliments nature and gets accompanied with all the nature's intangible secrets.

Ashutosh Gupta

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.

Dolores Huerta

#19. Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.

Erma Bombeck

#20. When someone else makes a mistake, it is their responsibility to correct it, but it is your responsibility to handle how you feel about it.

Deepak Chopra

#21. 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

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

Lucretius