In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.
If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.
He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few words or sentences really: came from nothing. Self-educated. Luck. Energy. Curiosity. Ambition. That's it. Nothing at all can illuminate the work as far as I can tell.
In sum, as we enter the 21st century, the Euro-Atlantic community - North America and Europe together - has to face some tough challenges when it comes to improving our capability.
That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life.
On the Web you have to sum up what your piece of content is in one link or nobody is going to watch it. That's the same thing I've been hearing from TV executives - is we need a program that you can have on the side of a bus and someone can watch it go by and get what the show is and want to watch it.
A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things.
America is the sum of all our journeys as we search for our national community and our national culture.
I suppose you could sum up the religious aspects of my boyhood by saying it was a time of life when I was taught the difference between right and wrong as it specifically applied to Catholicism.
On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.
These two are not two Love has made them one Amo Ergo Sum! And by its mystery Each is no less but more.
Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.
Success is the sum of details.
We're living at this funny time, where we're all urged to express ourselves as unique individuals, but on the other hand, we share a limited set of tools for doing that. It's easy to feel like nothing more than the sum of your consumer choices.
I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.
You're only as good as the sum of your parts, and one person can't be a team.
I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: 'steady as she goes'.
In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.
I've said this forever - I've always believed the Today show is more than the sum of its parts.
And when that's working, the sum can be greater than the parts.
The income effects in an economy always sum to zero.
Of history, how little do we know by personal contact; we have lived a few years, seen a few men, witnessed some important events; but what are these in the whole sum of the world's past.
A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
Harmony is when the sum is greater than the parts. A happy exaggeration.
I hate bumper stickers, you can't sum anything up. All you do is paint yourself in some caricaturist corner.
I find it quite hard to sum up my relationship in a sound bite. I feel that it trivializes it for other people's pleasure. It's an adventure.
It's not that Millennials don't believe some things are serious. We'll make 'It Gets Better' videos or perform comedy for disaster relief. But sum up our lives in a phrase? The Importance of Never Being Too Earnest.
To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.
To sum it all up, the objective of my life has been to give work a moral and economic dignity.
It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.
I'll admit that I'm not quite certain how to sum up an entire year in music anymore; not when music has become so temporal, so specific and personal, as if we each have our own weather system and what we listen to is our individual forecast.
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.
Together we are bigger than the sum of our parts.