(131 quotes found)
“The whole is more than the sum of its parts.”
Aristotle
“"Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights”
Dag Hammarskjold
“Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.”
Wayne Dyer
“One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is "to be prepared”
Dan Quayle
“Forty thousand brothersCould not, with all their quantity of love,Make up my sum.”
William Shakespeare
“Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature -- subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasurers, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today. . . . The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.”
William Osler
“Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores”
W. H. Auden
“It was as though in those last minutes he (Eichmann) was summing up the lessons that this long course in human wickedness had taught us the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil”
Hannah Arendt
“Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum - I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.”
Ambrose Bierce
“An ancient proverb summed it up: when a wizard is tired of looking for broken glass in his dinner, it ran, he is tired of life.”
Terry Pratchett
