Summary Quotes

67 quotes by 65 authors

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people. — Felix Frankfurter
People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of… — Dean Kamen
A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let's eat! — Alan King
A novel is not a summary of its plot but a collection of instances, of luminous specific details that take us in the direction of… — Charles Baxter
Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a… — Jorge Luis Borges
Fire is a speed reader, which is why the ignorant burn books: fire races through pages, takes care of all the knowledge, and never bores… — Elizabeth McCracken
There is no trickier subject for a writer from the South than that of affection between a black person and a white one in the… — Kathryn Stockett
To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem. — Douglas Adams
Children are dying." Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices… — Steven Erikson
The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries… — Aldous Huxley
In summary, Intelligence Intensification is desirable, because there is not a single problem confronting humanity that is not either caused or considerably worsened by the… — Robert Anton Wilson
In summary, she did jump off a cliff, but she wasn't trying to kill herself. Bella's all about the extreme sports these days." I flushed… — Stephenie Meyer
I've read your summary." "And?" "It's not incompetent." Be still, my heart, so I don't faint from such faint phrase. "Did you expect it to… — Ilona Andrews
A writer is dreamed and transfigured into being by spells, wishes, goldfish, silhouettes of trees, boxes of fairy tales dropped in the mud, uncles' and… — Cynthia Ozick
Blood City III: The Massacre. I'd read the summary of it online, and frankly, it sounded like the directors had just decided to film my… — James Patterson
In the scale of life there is a gradual decline in physical variability, as the organism has gathered into itself resources for meeting the exigencies… — Chauncey Wright
Hitler had a police state of the first order. And those who showed any sign of being weak-kneed faced prison or often summary execution. That… — Rick Atkinson
Mint is designed to put your finances on auto-pilot. Whether you log in or not, it will send you a weekly summary of your balances… — Aaron Patzer
In summary, the Romans were opposed to tyranny in any form; and the feature of government to which they gave the most thought was an… — Robert W. Welch, Jr.
I would like that to be known; these facts are in the summary which I think is a very good one. — John Sherman Cooper

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