Sentence examples for the sum of things from inspiring English sources

I see books as part of a continuum – you do your bit in your lifetime, and hope it adds to the sum of things.

If it had been Linus Pauling and not Crick and Watson, what difference would it have made in the sum of things?

For example, that one sees the sum of things as a vast machine may be suggested by what goes on in science, but this view can neither claim scientific warrant itself nor draw on scientific prestige, because it seems to spring from nothing better than mere whim.

Holguin likes to say, "Design is in something, style is in the sum of things," and describes RTH (the name is derived from his initials) as "Real.

I am the sum of things I remember.

But in the logic of pathological dualism, I am also the sum of things I forget.

They stood, and earth's foundations stay; What God abandoned, these defended, And saved the sum of things for pay.

The Sum of Things was published posthumously, for on 4 July 1980 Manning suffered a severe stroke while visiting friends in the Isle of Wight.

In addition, his mourning period, characterised by abrupt transitions from weeping to almost hysterical mirth, was precisely how Manning had imagined Guy Pringle's reaction to Harriet's supposed death in The Sum of Things.

As for those who reject the paranormal underpinnings of "Odd Thomas": they are frightened "by the prospect of opening their minds and hearts to the truth of a universe far more complex and meaningful than the material world that their education tells them is the sum of all things".

Mr. Long's motivation is the sum of many things: 40 operations; 5 months in the hospital; the fear that he would never walk again; a sense of valor tested at the World Trade Center on 9/11, where he helped rescue trapped comrades.