Reference Quotes

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People are timid and apologetic; they are no longer upright; they dare not say "I think," "I am," but quote some saint or sage. They… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Euphonic and harmonious expressions, forcible and just expressions, profound and comprehensive expressions, and especially apt and witty expressions, each have their specific influence upon different… — Charles Simmons
Thrift means that you should always have the best you can possibly afford, when the thing has any reference to your physical and mental health,… — Orison Swett Marden
The vector equilibrium is the true zero reference of the energetic mathematics. Zero pulsation in the vector equilibrium is the nearest approach we will ever… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Jesus no doubt fits his teaching into the late-Jewish messianic dogma. But he does not think dogmatically. He formulates no doctrine. He is far from… — Albert Schweitzer
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whenever asana is done mechanically from the front brain, the action is felt only on the peripheral body, and there is no inner sensation, there… — B.K.S. Iyengar
We arrange our lives-even the best and boldest men and women that exist, just as much as the most limited-with reference to what society conventionally… — Walt Whitman
The danger of disturbing the public tranquillity by interesting too strongly the public passions, is a still more serious objection against a frequent reference of… — James Madison
You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference.… — Ernest Hemingway
When the self is ones exclusive subject and limit, reference and measure, one has no choice but to make a world of words. — Wendell Berry
Human memory works its own wheel, and stops where it will, entirely without reference to the last stop, and with no connection with the next. — William Saroyan
I'm always collecting emotions for future reference. — Harlan Howard
Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in… — Adam Clarke
The principal of unity and indivisibility of the republic are the essential reference points. — Giorgio Napolitano
I love writing in longhand. Writing in longhand, I think, is a marvelous thing to do for a writer these days. If you have a… — Neil Gaiman
Our points of reference in America aren't steeped in literature; they're steeped in that five minutes between commercials. — Clarke Peters
I'm horrible at quoting movies! Even my very favorites are not easily recalled or programmed to memory. When people start movie quoting around me, I'm… — Ashley Rickards
I find increasingly that the more extreme are the things going on in your life, the more cultural reference points fail you. More mythical reference… — Michael Sheen
I do support a sex-positive attitude for young people. Use condoms, that's important. I love the idea that promiscuity can be healthy but it's got… — Rachael Taylor

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