Summary Quotes

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The Sun Stone, the famous Aztec calendar, is unquestionably a perfect summary of science, philosophy, art and religion.

In summary, all great work is the fruit of patience and perseverance, combined with tenacious concentration on a subject over a period of months or years.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

Photographing attractive people who were doing attractive things in attractive places. (Summary of his photographic career)

Here's a summary for the time or attention challenged: Never surrender freedom for laws that can't affect criminals; they disobey laws for a living.

The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

I used to murder people for money, but these days it’s more of a survival technique.

There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken.

A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let's eat!

Fate has to do with events in history that are the summary and unintended results of innumerable decisions of innumerable men.

We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary.

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 of the world hide in those three words.

Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without

If you had to summarize the Old Testament, the summary would be: stop doing this to yourselves.

I may just release all the interviews as Part Two and then write a larger summary later on. That way we do not suffer further delays.

In summary, our world is doomed.

Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.

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 the unsaid and unseen.

Only our concept of time makes it possible for us to speak of the Day of Judgment by that name in reality it is a summary court in perpetual session.

It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.

I wanted to do a summary of my life and career. There’s been so many different looks, and so many types of songs that have become iconic, so it was just kind of fun to look back on everything

Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different from my anticipation. So there is considerable flow, but always within channels.

Good prose almost always requires both showing and telling, scenes and summary, the two basic components of creative prose.

All science requires mathematics. [Editors' summary of Bacon's idea, not Bacon's wording.]

I read a lot of summaries about the story [ based on the Cyrano de Bergerac. ]. I also watched Roxanne, the movie starring Steve Martin.

A priest's life is spent between question and answer-- or between a question and the attempt to answer it. The question is the summary of the spiritual life.

[John] Calvin's Institutes is often called a summary of Christian piety. You can't say that about many modern works of theology. You can say it of Calvin.

That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.

Summary riposte To the dreary wail There's no knowing what Love is all about. Poets know a lot.

Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is summary and effectual.

literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it.

At the end of the day, in brief summary: inerrancy is interested in the truthfulness of Scripture and it is a powerful way forcing people to think about that reliability that is God-given.

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 life.

I have found a beautiful summary of the way I work with organisations, and the values I seek to amplify.

The IPCC summary for policymakers is used to scare politicians and goad the public into action. The UN is all about politics.

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 be written in crayon?

My summary of all our experiences was that it showed that heaven and hell are one place, and we all go there. To those who are prepared, it is heaven; to those who are not fit and ready, it is hell.

What is the silence of six and what are you going to do about it?

Do not just go through the day without pausing to ponder! You shall only retire wondering.

Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass