I cant summarize my favorite movie, Jacques Tatis Play Time. You just have to see it.
Before I had kids, I thought you should never lie to a kid. But now I've had them, I realize you almost lie to them by definition, because if you're trying to summarize something for your 1-year-old, you put it in very simple terms. You only gradually complicate the explanation as they get older.
If you can't summarize an issue on one page, you don't understand the issue well enough.
The unanswerable mysteries. . . the attitude that all is uncertain. . . to summarize it - the humility of the intellect.
Thus when I have to summarize naturalized spirituality in a single phrase, it is this: the thoughtful love of life.
If you had to summarize the Old Testament, the summary would be: stop doing this to yourselves.
Unconsciously, I think I watch for a look, an expression, features or nostalgia that can summarize or more accurately reveal life.
You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
If I were to summarize in one sentence the single most important principle I have learned in the field of interpersonal relations, it would be this: Seek first to understand, then to be understood. This principle is the key to effective interpersonal communication.
To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.
People will summarize your life in one sentence - Pick it now.
He who can properly summarize many ideas in a brief statement, is a wise man.
I believe in the premillenial, pre-tribulational coming of Christ for all of his church, and to summarize that, your first poll, do you believe Jesus coming the second time will be in the future, I would vote yes with the 59 percent and with Billy Graham and most evangelicals.
It is remarkable how a man cannot summarize his thoughts in even the most general sort of way without betraying himself completely, without putting his whole self into it, quite unawares, presenting as if in allegory the basic themes and problems of his life.
One cannot always summarize massive issues by looking at the life of one person or one family, or even one community.
