Sum Quotes
823 quotes by 652 authors
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
— Lucretius
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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…
— Martin Buber
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Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs; Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease,…
— Hannah More
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Not what we have, but what we use, not what we see, but what we choose, these are the things that mar or bless the…
— Joseph Fort Newton
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The artist does not exist except as a personification, a figure of speech that represents the sum total of art itself. It is painting that…
— Harold Rosenberg
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For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen... together they are more than the sum of their parts.
— Naomi Wolf
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The composition is the organized sum of the interior functions of every part of the work.
— Wassily Kandinsky
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You will ultimately be defined by the sum total of your responses to circumstances, situations and events that you probably couldn't anticipate and indeed probably…
— David Stern
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I suppose once in a while, a filmmaker makes a movie that's more than just a sum of its parts, more than good acting or…
— Sam Mendes
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Send me 300 francs; that sum will enable me to go to Paris. There, at least, one can cut a figure and surmount obstacles. Everything…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Wander a whole summer if you can. Thousands of God's blessings will search you and soak you as if you were a sponge, and the…
— John Muir
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Wander a whole summer if you can. Â Time will not be taken from the sum of life. Â Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it…
— John Muir
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It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one's sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and imperfectly, how to…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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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…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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A nation's character is the sum of its splendid deeds; they constitute one common patrimony, the nation's inheritance. They awe foreign powers, they arouse and…
— Henry Clay
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Quality of life is the sum total of the fairness of our tax structure; the caliber of our homes; the cleanliness of our air and…
— Tom McCall
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Focus is about saying, No. And the result of that focus is going to be some really great products where the total is much greater…
— Steve Jobs
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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…
— Max Planck
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I can sum it up like this: Thank God for the game of golf.
— Arnold Palmer
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The truth about any man can only be calculated by the sum of everything that has been said about him.
— Orson Welles
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