Quotes of: Large-sums Keyword

[Phil Connors is stopped by the police after some crazy driving] Phil: Yeah, three cheeseburgers, two large fries, two chocolate shakes and one large coke. Ralph: [to Phil] And some flapjacks. Phil: [to Cop] Too early for flapjacks?

Groundhog Day

Large Man with Dead Body: Who's that then? The Dead Collector: I dunno, must be a king. Large Man with Dead Body: Why? The Dead Collector: He hasn't got shit all over him.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

A group experience takes place on a lower level of consciousness than the experience of an individual. This is due to the fact that, when many people gather together to share one common emotion, the total psyche emerging from the group is below the l...

The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious

The relationship between ethics and thrift can be summed up in one sentence. It is wrong to save money at the expense of others. Period.

The Complete Tightwad Gazette

The avarice, the hunger for materialistic possessions and the dependency upon alcohol had gradually become stronger and stronger. And now, it was the sum total of what she was.

Closing In

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.

Foundation and Empire

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.

The Great Divorce

International politics is no longer a zero-sum game but a multi-dimensional arena where cooperation and competition often occur simultaneously. Gone is the age of blood feuds. World leaders are expected to lead in turning threats into opportunities.

Hassan Rouhani

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.

Comte de Lautreamont

A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand.

The Alphabet of Grace

As a Christian, you are not the sum of your past. You are a brand-new person with a brand-new beginning.

Refreshing Words for Busy Women

All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.

Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.

Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune

The Sound and the Fury

But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.

Middlemarch

that a child is not an event, alleged or otherwise, a mistake or accident or crime. . . he is by definition more than this, sum rather than division, a living promissory note.

Northwest Corner

The entire teaching of Buddhism can be summed up in this way: Nothing is worth holding on to.

Living Dharma: Teachings of Twelve Buddhist Masters

...love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.

Love the One You're With

The sum of things to be known is inexhaustible, and however long we read, we shall never come to the end of our story-book." ( , 3 October 1892)

Selected Prose

That each man is the sum of his choices is nothing less than the truth. And each, perhaps, is also something else.

Star of the Sea

Neither my sexuality or my efforts or lack of effort on the football field make up the whole sum of me.

Tigers and Devils