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Quotes About Addition

The Orthodox, in reply, claimed that the addition was theologically untrue; that the Holy Spirit proceeds only from the Father, and to add the name of the Son was heretical. Such issues were the stuff of riots within Constantinople.
~ Roger Crowley
light of the two centuries of church statistics we have examined, it is obvious that a group can add members and still fail to keep pace with the growth of the population and of other religious firms.
~ Roger Finke
The sense of a truth-function of p is a function of the sense of p.   Denial, logical addition, logical multiplication, etc. etc., are operations.   (Denial reverses the sense of a proposition.)
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
which has the power or quality of adding. The additory fiction gives to a great man a larger share of reputation than belongs to him, to enable him to serve some good end or purpose.Arbuthnot'sArt of political Lying.
~ Samuel Johnson
ADVENIENT  (ADVE'NIENT)   adj.[adveniens, Lat.]Advening; coming from outward causes; superadded.
~ Samuel Johnson
A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
~ Gaston Bachelard
I have a boxer and I'm getting another boxer. I have a girlfriend, Gabby Granado, who lives with me as well.
~ Gary Woodland
Without the idea of the indefinite, mathematics would have halted at addition and subtraction, and never have risen through geometry to astronomy.
~ Sabine Baring-Gould
I'm enchanted by your beauty, my lady. Welcome aboard. You make a most welcome addition to our acerbic company…a lovely-smelling one, too. (Vik)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
There is a clear link between protecting your car and home and protecting your life. So life insurance was a logical addition to the AA's range.
~ Kevin Sinclair
We come from a sensory-overload culture, and so we wonder if one guy on drums and one guy dancing around is enough. Adding guys was something we always were curious about. We decided for this run specifically to stay a two-piece. In the future, we definitely could add members.
~ Tyler Joseph
Note that a rotation by 360 degrees is equivalent to doing nothing at all, or rotating by zero degrees. This is known as the identity transformation. Why bother to define such a transformation at all? As we shall see later in the book, the identity transformation plays a similar role to that of the number zero in the arithmetic operation of addition or the number one in multiplication-when you add zero to a number or multiply a number by one, the number remains unchanged.
~ Mario Livio
Small business owners that are making a lot of money and want to reduce their taxes today can benefit greatly from the addition of a cash-balance plan on top of their 401(k) plan.
~ Anthony Robbins
Our life is a book to which we add daily, until suddenly we are finished, and then the manuscript is burned.
~ James M. Barrie
As Neil approached the camp the women's laughter still sounded from their tents. The noise had sent the peccaries stamping around their wire pen and set off a sympathetic screeching of cockatoos and lorikeets. All the creatures on Saint-Esprit, even those destined for the dining table, were celebrating the new addition to the sanctuary family.
~ ballard j g iv
For the sake of the troops, for the love of the troops, we must not add yet another casualty to this war. We must not let truth be a casualty of this war.
~ Barbara Boxer
Twenty-four plus two,           Will
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
Of course I want to add more titles all the time.
~ Adrian Lewis
I don't think there's a subject matter that can't absorb 3-D; that can't tolerate the addition of depth as a storytelling technique.
~ Martin Scorsese
Libby stood at the bar like something that had been hastily added at the end of a painting that hasn't quite dried yet.
~ Scarlett Thomas
Physics depends on a universe infinitely centred on an equal sign. As science writer and sometime theologian David Conte wrote: 'God for all intents and purposes is an equal sign, and at least until now, something humanity has always been able to believe in is that the universe always adds up.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
All of us are made not only of what we have but of what we lost. And loss is not a subtraction. As an experience, it is an addition. Even when we lose a leg or an arm, there's not less of us but more. Human experience weighs more than human tissue.
~ Augusten Burroughs
It would be one hell of an addition to someone's scrapbook. (Dark City Lights)
~ Bill Bernico
Abandonment - and that's precisely what it is-is never a solution. It never takes away pain, but only adds to it.
~ Eric Mason