Summary Quotes

67 quotes by 65 authors

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries. — Thomas Carlyle
I distrust summaries, any kind of gliding through time, any too great a claim that one is in control of what one recounts; I think… — Harold Brodkey
The IPCC 'policy summaries,' written by a small group of their political operatives, frequently contradict the work of the scientists that prepare the scientific assessments.… — Peter Friedman
I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling… — Lord Byron
I may just release all the interviews as Part Two and then write a larger summary later on. That way we do not suffer further… — David Wilcock
The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. — Louis E. Boone
Data are just summaries of thousands of stories - tell a few of those stories to help make the data meaningful. — Dan Heath
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) new Summary for Policymakers is a political document that downplays assessments of uncertainty from the scientific reports. It… — Steven F. Hayward
Good prose almost always requires both showing and telling, scenes and summary, the two basic components of creative prose. — Laurie Alberts
Only our concept of time makes it possible for us to speak of the Day of Judgment by that name in reality it is a… — Franz Kafka
All this happiness on display is suspect... If they think - and they could be right - that continued torture and summary executions, ethnic cleansing… — Ian Mcewan
Some people demand a five-line capsule summary. Something you'd read in a magazine. They want you to say, 'This is the story of the duality… — Stanley Kubrick
The religion of the short poem, in every age and in every literature, has a single commandment: Less is always more. The short poem rejects… — Charles Simic
Were I asked to focus the New Testament message in three words, my proposal would be ADOPTION THROUGH PROPITIATION, and I do not expect ever… — J I Packer
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without — A. R. Ammons
Injection of environmental and political perspectives in midstream of the science discussion cannot help the process of inquiry. I believe that persons with relevant scientific… — James Hansen
A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts â€” a 'bundle of… — Joseph McCabe
Although random mutations influenced the course of evolution, their influence was mainly by loss, alteration, and refinement... Never, however, did that one mutation make a… — Lynn Margulis
It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the… — Caleb Cushing
In summary, our world is doomed. — Charlie Brooker

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