Sum Quotes

The truth we make for ourselves is just the sum of what is in someone's interest, balanced by the power they hold. — Jo Nesbo

Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.
I am human, and think nothing human alien to me. — Terence

We are not our station in life. We are us - the sum of what we've done, what we want to do, and the people who we keep close. — Pierce Brown

A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand. — Geraldine Brooks

Every one of us is the sum total of our own thoughts. — Earl Nightingale

Sundays are for Dim Sum. While the rest of America goes to church, Sunday School, or NFL games, you can find Chinese people eating Cantonese food. — Eddie Huang

Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain. — Oscar Wilde

You fear me, because you don't know what I am. I look like a woman, I sound like a man, and your reason tells you the sum total is impossible! — Anonymous

Maybe he was more than the sum of his broken parts. — Dave Eggers

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man. — Thomas Carlyle

Behavior is math: Truth is found in the sum of its parts. — Steve Maraboli

The twentieth century had a wonderful capacity for seeing nothing as the sum of everything. — Louis Dudek

The law of the conservation of energy is already known, viz. that the sum of the actual and potential energies in the universe is unchangeable. — William John Macquorn Rankine

My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game. — Julia Gillard

Reading poetry and watching cricket were the sum of my world, and the two are not so far apart as many aesthetes might believe. — Donald Bradman

Public opinion, the sum of private opinions, does matter, can matter often for good. — Sybille Bedford

People are too busy putting things under microscopes and so forth. Creativity is greater than the sum of its parts. — Maya Angelou

To hate man and worship God seems to be the sum of all the creeds. — Robert G. Ingersoll

The Law of Triviality ... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved. — C. Northcote Parkinson

I am only certain of one thing. If we are the sum total of our relationships, my balance sheet is bleeding red ink. — Cindy Cruciger

Our eventual fate will be the sum of the stories we told ourselves long enough. — Crystal Woods

If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war. — Bao Dai

Who knows if the gods above will add tomorrow's span to this day's sum? — Horace

Every time I hear about somebody who wins a never-work-again sum in the lottery but keeps his or her day job I think, not a book person. — Amy Smith

She stopped feeling like she was nothing more than a consumer, nothing more than the sum of her daily obligations and duties. She was making something — Elizabeth Gilbert

So, it's like calling out for Chinese? An order of Sum Yung Gai with wings? — Wen Spencer

Everyone is the sum total of past experiences. A character doesn't just spring to life at age thirty. — Kelley Armstrong

To know the Word of God, to live the Word of God, to preach the Word, to teach the Word, is the sum of all wisdom, the heart of all Christian service. — Charles E. Fuller

Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too. — Lois McMaster Bujold

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 life. — Theodore Roosevelt

The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room. — Blaise Pascal

I'll sum up the key to success in one word: generosity. — Keith Ferrazzi

But emotions when based on valued things can be a faithful and consistant sum of truths. — Terry Goodkind

The price of our vitality is the sum of all our fears — David Whyte

For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism. — Walter Rudolf Hess

Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don't sum up a man's life in one moment. — Al Pacino

Nocte liber sum. By night I am free. — Courtney Cole

I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay! — Quentin Crisp

Limited resources. Everything's a zero-sum game." "What — Matthew B.J. Delaney

G'Kar: We are all the sum of our tears. Too little and the ground is not fertile, and nothing can grow there. Too much, the best of us is washed away. — J. Michael Straczynski

Some things, down to the smallest of things, are worth the sum of all things. — Rick Yancey

Every one of us is the sum total of his own thoughts — Earl Nightingale

The specific weight of the soul is equal to the sum of what has been dared. — Bert Hellinger

There's always more to it. This is what history consists of. It is the sum total of the things they aren't telling us. — Don DeLillo

Our value is the sum of our values. — Joseph Batten

The way I figure it, life's the sum total of all our small mistakes, little tragedies, bad choices. — Lauren Oliver

As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors. — Gary Hamel

Just hopped off the plane came back from Vancouv Little white tee sum boobs & bamboo — Nicki Minaj

That's really what the mall is all about: money. At the mall the rule is: Credito, ergo sum - I shop, therefore I am. — Jessica Zafra

Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by ... not paying attention? — Joshua Foer

To form something greater than the sum of its parts. — Teri Terry

This is the sum of duty: do naught to others which if done to thee, would cause thee pain. — Vyasa

She did not want the pleasurable and comfortable mediocrity in which she now wallowed to be the sum of her life. — Christos Tsiolkas

There's probably no one so easily bribed, but he lacks even the fundamental honesty of honorable corruption. He doesn't stay bribed; not for any sum. — Isaac Asimov

I am the sum total of what I have been confessing through the years. — Joel Osteen

Really, Dad. I understand now about the whole being greater than the sum of the parts. — Wendelin Van Draanen

What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity. — Richard Eyre

You can sum up what has killed capitalism in four words: too big to fail. — Gerald Celente

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Her changing perception of time had altered the sum of her reflections. — Lori Lansens

Life is a sum of all your choices.
So, what are you doing today? — Albert Camus

For love is of God. He is the fountain, author, parent, and commander of love; it is the sum of his law and gospel: — Matthew Henry

The "I" thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the "I" thought has to be inquired into. — Ramana Maharshi

The recent years of the Grant Study have shown that our lives when we are old are the sum of all of our loves. — George Vaillant

Where you are today is the sum of every choice you've ever made. If you don't like where you are, start making different choices! — Dave Ramsey

We are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us. — Robin Hobb

Many artists I enjoy have a large body of work, and eventually the message is derived out from the sum of its parts. — Jimenez Lai

Scars are the key to power. Scars are the map of beauty ... Each of us is the sum of our scars. — Matthew Woodring Stover

All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness. — H.P. Lovecraft

Differentiation is a zero-sum, advertising-based game. — Seth Godin

The human person is the sum total of a 15 billion year chain of unbroken evolution now thinking about itself — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on. — C.S. Lewis

The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts. — Sebastian Faulks

In this walk to freedom, we must, without question obtain hearts of honesty and a tongue of truthfulness. — The Tru Sum

Trifles make the sum of life. — Charles Dickens

Unfortunately the ppl who would do the most good w/ a large sum of $ are often the same ppl who have the biggest hang ups about making $. — Hal Elrod

I am myself my own commander.
[Lat., Egomet sum mihi imperator.] — Plautus

The discussion of derivatives in the political world has become a zero sum game. — Jim Himes

There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee

There is one absolute truth. The sum of my existence equals you. — Kristen Callihan

How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them!
If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand. — Psalms 139

I like to say I'm geek-chic with a little bit of showgirl.I get asked it a lot, and it really does kind of sum it up. — Brad Goreski

Appear to be that which you desire to become. Be that which is more than your average sum. — Michael Gasaway

If I could sum up what the Bible teaches about giving in one statement, it would be this: Generous living produces emotional happiness. — Chip Ingram

Design is an opportunity to continue telling the story, not just to sum everything up. — Tate Linden

Weight loss is a sum of all of your habits - not individual ones. — Helen M. Ryan

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made. — Wayne Dyer

Remember that your character is the sum total of your habits. — Rick Warren

But suppose we are nothing more than the sum of our first, naive, random behaviors. What then? — Dan Ariely

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings. — Carl Sandburg

Infinity minus one," chattered the computer. "Improbability sum now complete. — Douglas Adams

Unexpected money is a delight. The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more. — Mark Twain

Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world. — Jeanette Winterson

Competition for status is a zero sum game — Richard Layard, Baron Layard

We spend great sum of money to buy good books, so that we can satisfy our pleasure of reading. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In a zero-sum game, the problem is entirely one of distribution, not at all one of production. — Kenneth Waltz

I am not much for philosophy, but that old Descartes, he got me thinking. And therefore being. Anyone? Anyone? Cogito ergo sum jokes? No? Okay. — John Green

If someone offered to purchase a large percentage of your life power you would not think of selling it, even for a fabulous sum. — Orison Swett Marden

A Warrior knows that a great dream is made up of many different things, just as the light from the sun is the sum of its millions of rays. — Paulo Coelho