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.
One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.
As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.
He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
Brother Sum: [after dismissing Sing] A bum like that could come in handy.
It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.
Nowadays you need so much money to be able to launch a new artist, notably in America; you would hardly believe the sums involved.
[T]hese friends were of the female persuasion, and while by and large they were bi and large, they still represented potential threats on [her] feminine radar.
To say that the first casualty of war is truth is to miss the rather more important point that a principal weapon of war is lies.
When you make such a large withdrawal of happiness, somewhere you'll have to make an equally large deposit. It all goes back to the universal law of equilibrium.
I buy my clothes large, so I feel comfortable gaining weight. When I love, I do it in two sizes—extra large, and refill.
We sometimes fear to bring our troubles to God, because they must seem small to Him who sitteth on the circle of the earth. But if they are large enough to vex and endanger our welfare, they are large enough to touch His heart of love.
Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom against Communism - so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and ...
We had a large common domain, already added by the several States for the common benefit of all; purchase and war might make large additions to this common domain; hence the power over existing and future territories, with the stipulation to admit ne...
Entrepreneurs have the flexibility and the ability to do things that large companies simply cannot. Could a large company pull off a trick like Amyris, going from anti-malaria medicine to next-generation fuel?
The Procrustean bed. . .suggests itself with dispiriting aptness as a metaphor for the Culture Wars, right down to the blandishments with which Procrustes must have lured his guests over the threshold. (I picture him as a handsome fellow with a large...
In sum, then, "thinking about thinking" has to be a principal ingredient of any empowering practice of education.
It has always been preferable to attribute a woman's success to her beauty rather to her brains, to reduce her to the sum of her sex life.
We are the sum of all people we have ever met; you change the tribe and the tribe changes you.
Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
The algebraic sum of all the transformations occurring in a cyclical process can only be positive, or, as an extreme case, equal to nothing. [ ]
