Reference Quotes

431 quotes by 384 authors

In what light soever we regard the Bible, whether with reference to revelation, to history, or to morality, it is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine… — John Quincy Adams
The secret of the world is this: the world is entirely circular and you will go round and round endlessly, never finding what you want,… — Jeanette Winterson
Martin, Dave, and I get together and rough out a few songs and put them on cassettes for some reference...With the actual music, I'm not… — Ian Anderson
Increasingly I felt as if I were entering a struggle that might even be more than life and death. It might be a struggle for… — Whitley Strieber
It is good to come to a country you know practically nothing about. Your thoughts grow still, useless. Everything must be rebuilt. In a country… — Andrzej Stasiuk
And that brings us to tonight's word: Truthiness. Now I'm sure some of the word-police, the 'wordanistas' over at Websters, are gonna say, 'Hey, that's… — Stephen Colbert
My point of reference is life, in everything that I do. — Howie Mandel
I grew up with a mother who, every time she saw something, would say, I'm going to look that up. And I've become that person… — Jennifer Saunders
Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself. And so I make reference to and acknowledge things that I feel have been dismissed, trying to… — Dwight Yoakam
Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And thatâ€™s what it is. The nature is your nature, and all of these… — Joseph Campbell
The dominance of [an ideology] is shown by the fact that the dominated classes live their conditions of political existence through the forms of dominant… — Nicos Poulantzas
When people have points of reference that are humanizing, that demystifies difference. — Laverne Cox
Raven-haired writer Emer Martin is giving a lunchtime reading from her fabulous new novel, Baby Zero. Emer Martin is a brilliant writer, very much the… — Olaf Tyaransen
I feel a sense of sadness and joy. Mostly sadness though about what I've experienced and sadness about what others have experienced in reference to… — Luther Vandross
What we call ideology is precisely the confusion of linguistic with natural reality, of reference with phenomenalism — Paul de Man
It has been the error of the schools to teach astronomy, and all the other sciences, and subjects of natural philosophy, as accomplishments only; whereas… — Thomas Paine
You can have many different selection systems, but the bottom line has to be a system that, once the judge takes office that judge will… — Stephen Breyer
The two Christians met on the way many people who were going to their towns, women and men, with a firebrand in the hand, [and]… — Christopher Columbus
If we consider the manner in which those who assume the office of directing the conduct of others execute their undertaking, it will not be… — Samuel Johnson
Any part of the human body can only be explained in reference to the whole body. And any part of the Bible can only be… — F. F. Bruce

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