Sum Quotes
823 quotes by 652 authors
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Love is not simply the sum of sweet greetings and wrenching partings and kisses and embraces, but is made up more of the memory of…
— Anita Shreve
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I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.
— William Shakespeare
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Whatever we call it - mind, character, soul - we like to think we possess something that is greater than the sum of our neurons…
— Susanna Kaysen
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Let's sum up: an unknown number of enemies with unknown capabilities, supported by a gang of madmen, packs of attack animals, and superhumanly intelligent pocket…
— Jim Butcher
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If two people stare at each other for more than a few seconds, it means they are about to either make love or fight. Something…
— Robert Wright
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Dad," said Will, his voice very faint. "Are you a good person?" "To you and your mother, yes, I try. But no man's a hero…
— Ray Bradbury
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A “collective†mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of individual…
— Ayn Rand
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What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition…
— Leo Tolstoy
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It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our living. . . Our lives are,…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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It is no use trying to sum people up.
— Virginia Woolf
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To hate man and worship God seems to be the sum of all the creeds.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses.
— Leo Tolstoy
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...love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.
— Emily Giffin
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You are human and mortal; we are the sum of our weak moments and our strong.
— Mercedes Lackey
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Woman wants monogamy; Man delights in novelty. Love is woman's moon and sun; Man has other forms of fun. Woman lives but in her lord;…
— Dorothy Parker
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Private choices are not private; they all have public consequences...Our society is the sum total of what millions of individuals do in their private lives.…
— James E. Faust
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The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun…
— Michael Pollan
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
— William Faulkner
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If she were religious, she would call it the soul. It is more than the sum of her intellect and her emotions, more than the…
— Michael Cunningham
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when the sky is as grey as this - impeccably grey, a denial, really of the very concept of colour - and the stooped millions…
— Martin Amis
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