Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
I want to know that I've accomplished something. I want to feel that it had some meaning. At the last summing up,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
An intelligently planned feast is like a summing up of the whole world, where each part is represented by its envoys. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
For the Fall of the year is more than three months bounded by an equinox and a solstice. It is a summing… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
You're a materialist, like all ignorant people. But your materialism doesn't make materialism true. Don't you know that? In the final summing… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
On the train: staring hypnotized at the blackness outside the window, feeling the incomparable rhythmic language of the wheels, clacking out nursery… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
What is literary tradition? What is a classic? What is a canonical view of tradition? How are canons of accepted classics formed,and… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
The first thing to get clear about Christian morality between man and man is that in this department Christ did not come… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Then I felt too that I might take this opportunity to tie up a few loose ends, only of course loose ends… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
It has been said: The whole is more than the sum of its parts. It is more correct to say that the… — Kurt Koffka Copy Share Image
I want to make a summing up, brief and to the point, but thorough. I have never suppressed a word in my… — John Henry Mackay Copy Share Image
There are books which we read early in life, which sink into our consciousness and seem to disappear without leaving a trace.… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
One summer day, while I was walking along the country road on the farm where I was born, a section of the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Reason exercises merely the function of preserving order, is, so to say, the police in the region of art. In life it… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
In all modesty, my summing up of 1955-6 and 1956-7 must be that no club in the country could live with Manchester… — Matt Busby Copy Share Image
Fear and hope remain the same; therefore the study of the psychology of speculators is as valuable as it ever was. Weapons… — Edwin Lefevre Copy Share Image
[About Eichmann:] It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lesson that this long course in human… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image