Sum Quotes
823 quotes by 652 authors
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In sum, U.S. history is no more violent and oppressive than the history of England, Russia, Indonesia, or Burundi - but neither is it exceptionally…
— James W. Loewen
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Like everyone else I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings; a history of…
— Charlie Chaplin
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love wasn't possible in just a couple of days. Love could be set in motion quickly, but true love needed time to grow into something…
— Nicholas Sparks
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A name can't begin to encompass the sum of all her parts. But that's the magic of names, isn't it? That the complex, contradictory individuals…
— Charles de Lint
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Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.
— Robin Hobb
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In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to…
— Jane Austen
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When someone leaves you, apart from missing them, apart from the fact that the whole little world you've created together collapses, and that everything you…
— Helen Fielding
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A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.
— James Allen
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But suppose we are nothing more than the sum of our first, naive, random behaviors. What then?
— Dan Ariely
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…[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…
— Richard Linklater
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We must therefore rediscover, after the natural world, the social world, not as an object or sum of objects, but as a permanent field or…
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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Carnal embrace is sexual congress, which is the insertion of the male genital organ into the female genital organ for purposes of procreation and pleasure.…
— Tom Stoppard
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I was woundering what he would say, what word could sum me up right then, when i saw the lights come across his face, blaringly…
— Sarah Dessen
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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Love is worth the sum of itself, and nothing more.
— Alice Hoffman
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The sum of all known value and respect, I add up in you, whoever you are.
— Walt Whitman
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Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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The receptionist looked us over, then went back to typing something incredibly urgent—like her résumÃ©Ì for another job.
— James Patterson
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it seems that tears and laughter, love and hate, make up the sum of life!
— Zora Neale Hurston
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