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God bless the Reference Librarians -- James Lee Burke
The Population Reference Bureau predicts that the world's total population will double to 7,000,000,000 before the year 2000. I suppose they will all want dignity, I said. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Reference to the territory and total disregard for the nationality of the companies is of course the best guarantee that competition assessment remain just that and doesn't get affected by trade or other considerations. -- Mario Monti
County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the problem. I don't know how to spell it and I'm not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I'll stop you when...Hello? -- Bill Watterson
No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference. -- Aristotle
Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought. -- Erich Fromm
Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference. -- Carl von Clausewitz
I wrote a book on life coaching, because my life became my own reference point how to live. -- Anupam Kher
If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons. -- Winston Churchill
If you look in 'The Science of Getting Rich,' you see no reference whatsoever to the 'law of attraction.' -- Esther Hicks
A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author. -- Oscar Wilde
When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else. -- Gwendolyn Brooks
A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose. -- Immanuel Kant
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. -- William A. Dembski
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 the stroke. -- Luther Vandross
Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time. -- Frederick Jackson Turner
During a color consultation, I like to reference food as a visual. Hot fudge and orange marmalade paint a clearer picture and helps prevent end results that leave you feeling unsatisfied. -- Tabatha Coffey
I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like to receive reference books on my birthday. -- Daniel Handler
I don't think it's cool for people to say, 'You shouldn't reference God because I don't believe that, and I don't want to hear it.' Well, there's a lot of stuff I don't believe that I still gotta hear. -- Steve Harvey
Sir Hugh Greene is the man I hold most responsible for the state of our country today. For 11 years hardly a week went by without a sniping reference to me. And he gave access to anyone who was prepared to say anything morally subversive. -- Mary Whitehouse
One of the challenges of secularism is that it's not something outside us. In too many instances, secularism has so permeated the church that sometimes it's the frame of reference even for very good people, people who have a strong allegiance to the church. -- Donald Wuerl
The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized; its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution. -- Jose Ramos-Horta
The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that are based on international law and United Nations resolutions, and that it frantically continues to intensify building of settlements on the territory of the State of Palestine. -- Mahmoud Abbas
As the eldest son of an Alabama sharecropper family, I was constantly troubled by a collage of North American southern behaviors and notions in reference to the inhumanity of people. There were questions that I did not know how to ask but could, in my young, unsophisticated way, articulate a series of answers. -- John Henrik Clarke
When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Generally, we read him in modern spelling and with modern punctuation, and with notes. But any poetry that is performed - from song lyric to tragic speech - must make its point, as it were, without reference back. -- James Fenton
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. -- Neil Patrick Harris
All I know is movies; I went to school, but movies are my reference point for everything. I figured I'd have to P.A. or intern in the art department. Because the filmmaking process is so many people creating to make one piece of magic, so I've always wanted to be involved. With the acting, I doubted it. -- Jordan Ladd
The more I am in a position to be tried in faith with reference to my body, my family, my service for the Lord, my business, etc., the more shall I have opportunity of seeing God's help and deliverance; and every fresh instance, in which He helps and delivers me, will tend towards the increase of my faith. -- George Muller
When you are in church, it's always good to carry a pen and notepad to jot down the scripture text, reference scriptures, and sermon notes. When you come prepared with notepad and pen, you are able to feed off the scriptures from the sermon throughout the week, while asking God to open up your understanding for a deeper illumination of the word. -- Monica Johnson
Presentation, not reference... -- Ezra Pound
The world is a never-ending cross-reference. -- Cees Nooteboom
I'm always collecting emotions for future reference. -- Harlan Howard
Your frame of reference is what you see. -- Jacque Fresco
Your past is a place for reference, not residence. -- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Well, for future reference, this is my serious face. -- Derek Landy
Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard. -- Aristotle
There are definite reference points to older Depeche Mode records. -- Martin Gore
Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Without God man has no reference point to define himself. -- R. C. Sproul
We are each other's reference point at our turning points. -- Elizabeth Fishel
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference. -- Aristotle
My point of reference is life, in everything that I do. -- Howie Mandel
For future reference: do not underestimate the seductive power of math. -- Rachel Hartman
When people have points of reference that are humanizing, that demystifies difference. -- Laverne Cox
Photographs are not only points of reference... they're often triggers of ideas. -- Francis Bacon
Gods can screw anything and anybody. For reference, see history. Atticus O'Sullivan -- Kevin Hearne
One cannot use an evil action with reference to a good intention. -- Thomas Aquinas
In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior. -- Elizabeth McCracken
Hollywood style means classic glamour. My reference is the 1940s through the 1960s. -- Kelly Wearstler
In reference to right answers - Knowing is a process, not a product. -- Jerome Bruner
School textbooks have almost completely excised any reference to America's true religious heritage. -- Paul Vitz
In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference. -- Douglas Hofstadter
If I had a clone, I could list myself as a character reference. -- Jarod Kintz
We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable. -- H. G. Wells
Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church. -- Allen Ginsberg
Somehow trumpet is the reference point for me it was actually my first instrument, -- Pat Metheny
The principal of unity and indivisibility of the republic are the essential reference points. -- Giorgio Napolitano
A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference." -- John Hodgman
The fiction Im most interested in has lines of reference to the real world. -- Raymond Carver
A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference. -- John Hodgman
I just don't like talking about my relationships or anything like that, in any reference. -- Emma Roberts
Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects. -- Nigel Dennis
It's weird when one movie that's connected to another doesn't reference that movie at all. -- Robert Downey, Jr.
I call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the invention of the null reference in 1965. -- Tony Hoare
In mindfulness, breath can not play as not only reference point but point of view. -- Gary Gach
Whenever I reference something, it usually comes back at some point. I don't know why. -- Raymond Pettibon
The position of a hero is not for the comparision, it is a reference point -- Amit Kalantri
Somehow, trumpet is the reference point for me - it was actually my first instrument. -- Pat Metheny
Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Paradoxes are less paradoxical in their reference to truth than most of the most plausible axioms. -- Raheel Farooq
My friends call me 'Dolittle One' [a reference to her physical stature and affinity for animals]. -- Gloria Estefan
When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
I'm not a cinephile. My films don't reference films. I'm more interested in rhythm and feeling. -- Miranda July
All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You have to have an international reference of competition. You have to go beyond your home. -- Carlos Slim
God's will can become your internal reference point from this day forward; it is your choice. -- Debbie Ford
I have a large number of cassettes, but I look at them mainly for reference purposes. -- Jean-Luc Godard
Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language. -- Kenneth L. Pike
I don't feel like I have a lot of reference to sexual innuendo on my songs. -- Mirah
Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language. -- Kenneth L. Pike
What we call ideology is precisely the confusion of linguistic with natural reality, of reference with phenomenalism -- Paul de Man
We discover that meaning and purpose only when we make God the reference point of our lives. -- Rick Warren
Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference. -- Charles de Lint
You need to have many points of reference; many places to touch down and make contact with. -- Jerry Garcia
A book is judged, not by its reference to life, but by its reference to other books. -- Stephen Fry
While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future. -- Herbie Hancock
In the Southwestern United States, the places of power reference the lower three chakras, the chakras of power. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Perfume follows you; it chases you and lingers behind you. It's a reference mark. Perfume makes silence talk. -- Sonia Rykiel
Storming was one of her main modes of transportation." In reference to teenager Heather in "Carry The One -- Carol Anshaw
The photograph gives constant reference to the rectangle. This forces any idea into the confines of pictorial illusionism. -- Dennis Oppenheim
There is no UFO and also there is no alien, at least not in common mind nor reference. -- Toba Beta
There's an arbitrary idea that the horizontal edge in a frame has to be the point of reference. -- Garry Winogrand
Newt changed the frame of reference of all of our candidates. That's why we won so big in 1994. -- Pete du Pont
Our points of reference in America aren't steeped in literature; they're steeped in that five minutes between commercials. -- Clarke Peters
On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted. -- Dag Hammarskjold
The idea of having to make constant reference to politics is anathema to my calling as a writer. -- Wole Soyinka
If you look in The Science of Getting Rich, you see no reference whatsoever to the law of attraction. -- Esther Hicks
Never make any reference to the other person's family. "You're just like your - " because that is out, completely. -- Malachy McCourt
The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
I'm trying hard not to use a specific reference, but you'll probably know it's you after the first sentence. -- Donald Glover
Grace loves without reference to what may or may not happen-which is precisely why such incredible things do happen! -- Tullian Tchividjian
[The public has] the habit now of invalidating opinions emanating from me by reference to my age and infirmities. -- James Madison
Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word. -- Willard Van Orman Quine
Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference. -- Graham Joyce
We must re-center philosophy within our frame of reference which I think is the way to deal with it. -- Tariq Ramadan
If a cultural reference flies over a man's head, does it make a sound if nobody else gets it. -- Ilona Andrews
To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination. -- Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
The reference-points pictures should be shot and taken off one's system. But don't follow that always, create you own points -- Raghu Rai
Viewed systematically, religion can be differentiated from other culturally constituted institutions by virtue only of its reference to superhuman beings. -- Melford Spiro
I can't live for more than four years outside of Canada. I'm Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point. -- Yann Martel
My job as a designer is to look into the future. Not to use any frame of reference that exists -- Marc Newson
Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short. -- Frank Herbert
I want my film to be possible to use as a reference when we are trying to live our lives. -- Ruben Ostlund
Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
He who first called money the sinews of the state seems to have said this with special reference to war. -- Plutarch
Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through. -- Jill Lepore
I've never seen 'Friends;' I've never seen 'Seinfeld.' I've heard people reference these things but I've never seen them. -- Moby
he who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
How can you have this reference point, this stability, that is required to maintain the continuity of selves day after day? -- Antonio Damasio

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