Reference Quotes - page 16

[In reference to Playstation Football] Here's an idea! Why don't they make a button that says frickin' "pass!" (Larry the Cable Guy)
A theology which has as its points of reference only "truths" which have been established once and for all-and not the Truth which is also the Way-can only be static and, in the long run, sterile. View quote
Gustavo Gutiérrez
Two phrases I hate in reference to female characters are 'strong' and 'feisty.' They really annoy me. It's the most condescending thing. You say that about a three-year-old. It infantilises women. View quote
Helen Mirren
You know that I do not share your opinion in this matter. That Spinozism and Atheism are to me two different things. That when I read Spinoza I can only explain him by reference to himself and that if it came to naming a book which, of all that I know, most agrees with my way of seeing things, then I would have to name the Ethics-even though by nature I do not share his way of seeing things. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the merits of guns. View quote
Jonathan Safran Foer
I have not come here with reference to any flag but that of freedom. View quote
William Lloyd Garrison
A world view is a system of co-ordinates or a frame of reference in which everything presented to us by our diverse experiences can be placed. It is a symbolic system of representation that allows us to integrate everything we know about the world and ourselves into a global picture, one that illuminates reality as it is presented to us within a certain culture. View quote
Diederik Aerts
How can you have this reference point, this stability, that is required to maintain the continuity of selves day after day? View quote
António Damásio
I learned how fast you can go from being an international hero to being a reference in a joke on a late night talk show. View quote
Michael Phelps
It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time, and one goes on more steadily. Doubts creep in. Then one becomes resigned. Determination not to give in, and the sense of an impending shape keep one at it more than anything. View quote
Virginia Woolf
When the sacred manifests itself in any hierophany, there is not only a break in the homogeneity of space; there is also a revelation of an absolute reality, opposed to the nonreality of the vast surrounding expanse. The manifestation of the sacred ontologically founds the world. In the homogenous and infinite expanse, in which no point of reference is possible and hence no orientation can be established, the hierophany reveals an absolute fixed point, a center. (Mircea Eliade)
I grew up listening to gospel. That was the only thing that I had reference to because that was what my family was involved with. View quote
Katy Perry
I like to take man-made objects and push them to the point where they almost lose their reference, so that they become something else, take on other alliances. View quote
Cornelia Parker
The question about "good origins” becomes the crux for enlightenment. It becomes more and more clear that this idea of origin has not a temporal but a Utopian reference. The Good is still nowhere to be found, except in the wishful human spirit. View quote
Peter Sloterdijk
Ideologically, the reference to "Nature” is always significant because it produces an artificial naïveté and ends up as voluntary naïveté. It covers up the human contribution and avers that things are by nature, and from their origins, in that "order” in which our representations, which are always influenced by "interests,” depict them. The rudiments for ideologies of order are hidden in all naturalisms. View quote
Peter Sloterdijk
I don't think that combat has ever been written about truthfully; it has always been described in terms of bravery and cowardice. I won't even accept these words as terms of human reference any more. And anyway, hell, they don't even apply to what, in actual fact, modern warfare has become. View quote
James Jones
All... must be built with due reference to durability, convenience, and beauty. Durability will be assured when foundations are carried down to the solid ground and materials wisely and liberally selected; convenience, when the arrangement of the apartments is faultless and presents no hindrance to use, and. View quote
Vitruvius
This film is extremely visual. It is difficult to describe in words without running the risk of losing or boring the reader. I have come up with a simplified summary, therefore, like a readers guide, which will conjure up the images in as few words as possible : - the beginning is Leon: The Professional - the middle is Inception - the end is 2001: A Space Odyssey Don't interpret this as pretension on my part, merely a visual, emotional and philosophical point of reference. View quote
Luc Besson
With the Tonys it's a little tricky because a lot of the funnier jokes are more insider, so people watching at home may not get a Julie Taymor reference the way that New Yorkers would. So you have to figure out what comedy plays to a large audience and still respect the individuals who are there. View quote
Neil Patrick Harris
A golden shower and Kite Runner reference in the same joke? Almost impossible! Almost impossible! I pull it off, because I care. View quote
Daniel Tosh
Humanists today, who claim to take a wholly secular view of things, scoff at mysticism and religion. But the unique status of humans is hard to defend, and even to understand, when it is cut off from any idea of transcendence. In a strictly naturalistic view – one in which the world is taken on its own terms, without reference to a creator or any spiritual realm – there is no hierarchy of value with humans at the top. There are simply multifarious animals, each with their own needs. Human uniqueness is a myth inherited from religion, which humanists have recycled into science. (John N. Gray)
I included songs which were aimed at making listeners think a little more deeply about faith in general. People of The Boxes for example, is not just a fable with implied reference to Jews and Christians, but it also points out that we who call ourselves "Muslims" are also living in a box sometimes. I wanted to help myself and the listeners realise our own faults too - to stop being so judgmental of others and to get ourselves out of the dogmatic boxes we have trapped ourselves in. View quote
Dawud Wharnsby
Rather like the Bible is for many Christians, the General Theory is the essential economics reference which few economists have ever read. View quote
Steve Keen
...my friend Dr. Arno Gruen, author of The Insanity of Normality, has said an interesting thing. He said that culture, in recent decades, has taken on a life of its own, without reference to the people it is supposed to protect. View quote
George W. S. Trow
The atheist is cheating whenever he makes a moral judgment, acting as though it has an objective reference, when his philosophy in fact precludes it. View quote
William A. Dembski