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Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving. -- Xun Zi
Androgyny refers to a specific way of joining the 'masculine' and 'feminine' aspects of a single human being. -- June Singer
Sensual is everything that refers to the delight of the senses. And that's what artists do, is stimulate the senses in any possible way. -- Shakira
Satellite archaeology' refers to the use of NASA and commercial high resolution satellite datasets to map and discover past structures, cities, and geological features. -- Sarah Parcak
My identity is always at the forefront, and I also think that every article that is written about me refers to me as an Israeli architect. -- Moshe Safdie
Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger. -- Terry Pratchett
Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity. -- Richard Owen
The Bible refers to the Word as 'the sword of the Spirit.' What battles are you not winning if you are not equipped with your sword? -- Monica Johnson
Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who reports what he has seen. -- Paul Ricoeur
I'm a big believer in what's called personalized medicine, which refers to customizing your health care to your specific needs based on your physiology, genetics, value system and unique conditions. -- David Agus
The U.S. government has been preoccupied with health care 'reform,' but this refers to improving access and insurance coverage and has little or nothing to do with innovation. -- Eric Topol
I have to admit I was dismayed when I found out 'type A' refers to a category of risk for heart disease - I thought it was just a nickname my mom gave me! -- Reese Witherspoon
Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life. -- Daniel Kahneman
There's a phrase in Shakespeare: he refers to it as the 'hidden imposthume', and this idea of a hidden swelling is seminal to cancer. But even in more contemporary writing it's called 'the big C'. -- Siddhartha Mukherjee
My wife has a good sense of humor, and instead of calling me psychic with my novels, she simply refers to me as being 'psycho.' That's because multiple things in my books have come true. -- Brad Thor
Jesus said, 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.' I think if he lived nowadays, instead of 'kingdom,' he would have said, 'dimension.' And 'heaven' refers to a sense of vastness or spaciousness. -- Eckhart Tolle
Authority is not a quality one person 'has', in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him. -- Erich Fromm
Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted. -- Erich Fromm
In Portugal, my sculpture 'She Changes' refers to the town's fishing history, to the era of seafaring trade and discovery. The contemporary site is industrial, surrounded by red and white striped smokestacks, which is mirrored in the pattern of the sculpture. -- Janet Echelman
The importance of human life should be universally respected - and that refers to children before they are born and after. All children have the right to be brought up in a loving two-parent family where the notion of divorce is not even possible. -- Christopher Monckton
It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole. -- Dmitri Mendeleev
The CIA has acknowledged that it has detained about 100 terrorists since 9/11, and about a third of them have been subjected to what the CIA refers to as 'enhanced interrogation tactics,' and only a small proportion of those have in fact been subjected to the most serious types of enhanced procedures. -- John O. Brennan
The term 'alpha female' originated in my field of animal behavior, but has acquired new meaning. It refers to women who are in charge, for example, by flirting and dating on their own terms. It is also used maliciously for a loud-mouthed, controlling woman who has no patience with deviating opinions. -- Frans de Waal
Moonwalking with Einstein' refers to a memory device I used when I memorized a deck of playing cards at the U.S. Memory Championship. When I competed in 2006, I set a new U.S. record by memorizing a deck of cards in one minute and 40 seconds. That record has since fallen. -- Joshua Foer
The first principle of cognitive therapy is that all your moods are created by your 'cognitions,' or thoughts. A cognition refers to the way you look at things - your perceptions, mental attitudes, and beliefs. It includes the way you interpret things - what you say. about something or someone to yourself. -- David D. Burns
I look forward to the day when being called 'another Monica Lewinsky' refers to the hard work behind a master's degree in social psychology from the London School of Economics, after spending the first act of one's life deflecting the shame of a scandal that should have rested on the shoulders of a man old enough to have known better. -- Julie Klausner
Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future. -- Mason Cooley
What kind of man refers to himself as safely dead? -- Megan Whalen Turner
Jesus himself refers to himself as light, illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding, wisdom -- Sunday Adelaja
Faith refers to Christ. Holiness depends on faith. Heaven depends on holiness. -- Alexander MacLaren
Almost without exception, blue refers to the domain of abstraction and immateriality. -- Wassily Kandinsky
She refers to her past as the time before she was "blown away. -- Sam Shepard
This manifesto only refers to future marriages, and does not affect past conditions. -- Wilford Woodruff
A picture is not a window...an abstract refers to no reality but its own. -- Jean Cocteau
Interest refers to studentâ??s affinity, curiosity, or passion for a particular topic or skill. -- Carol Ann Tomlinson
I reject the peak oil theory insofar as it refers to technological limits on human ingenuity. -- Robert P. Murphy
Ever wonder why the media never refers to 18 or 19 year old American soldiers as armed teens? -- Stefan Molyneux
Ever wonder why the media never refers to 18 or 19 year old American soldiers as "armed teens"? -- Stefan Molyneux
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Empathy in broadest sense refers to the reactions of one individual to the observed experiences of another -- Mark H. A. Davis
Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings. -- Ram Dass
A modern definition of equanimity: cool. This refers to one whose mind remains stable & calm in all situations. -- Allan Lokos
However, the 1956 agreement refers to two islands while the Prime Minister [Shindzo Abe] is talking about four islands. -- Vladimir Putin
Yes, I think that when the Bible refers to a horse or a horseman, that's exactly what it means. -- Tim LaHaye
Sri Krishna refers, of course, to this world as a joyless, transient world. Obviously, he's never been to Disneyland. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Personal space refers to an area with invisible boundaries surrounding a person's body into which intruders may not come. -- Robert Sommer
The word 'experienced' often refers to someone who's gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have. -- Laurence Gonzales
Each other refers to two nouns; one another refers to three or more, a distinction that careful writers generally observe. -- Martha Kolln
Artist refers to a person, willfully enmeshed in a dilemma of categories, who performs as if none of them existed. -- Allan Kaprow
The syllogism art for art's sake refers to that kind of painting which disregards, or is contrary to, public taste. -- Walter J. Phillips
Happiness refers to feelings, virtue refers to actions, and those actions can cause those feelings. But not necessarily and not exclusively. -- Daniel Gilbert
Pranayama is the practice of breath control. The word prana refers not only to breath, but also to air and life itself. -- Christy Turlington
Surrendering only refers to this moment, whatever "is" at this moment - to accept unconditionally and fully whatever arises at this moment. -- Eckhart Tolle
Character refers to dispositions and habits that determine the way that person normally responds to desires, fears, challenges, opportunities, failures and successes. -- Michael Josephson
"Going with the flow" is for some people an excuse for not taking action and it refers usually to one's life situation. -- Eckhart Tolle
None of my friends call me L.C. That was just a high school nickname, and nobody refers to me like that anymore. -- Lauren Conrad
Democracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the individual. -- Walter E. Williams
Any guy that refers to dating women as the hunt or being on the prowl should be evaluated for a number of conditions. -- Dane Cook
The wisdom obtained in the higher states of consciousness is different from that obtained by inference and testimony as it refers to particulars. -- Patanjali
To the extent math refers to reality, we are not certain to the extent we are certain, math does not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein
"The way of Cain" refers to any individual who attempts to approach God on his or her own terms rather than on God's terms. -- Robert Jeffress
The legend of the parting of the Red Sea probably refers to tidal changes in the Sea of Reeds related to the Thera eruption. -- Julian Jaynes
What Flaubert refers to as the "mÃ©lancholies du voyage" is like the sadness I feel as one season departs and another arrives. -- Gretel Ehrlich
Couch surfing' refers to the practice of temporarily lodging with a stranger - free of charge, unless you count being incessantly sociable as payment. -- Patricia Marx
You must constantly check that you are meditating properly, and not become, what Clint Eastwood refers to as, "a legend in your own mind." -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
When you look at a lot of the military histories, and even modern military history, everyone pretty much refers to each other by nicknames. -- Pierce Brown
In Buddhism, ignorance as the root cause of suffering refers to a fundamental misperception of the true nature of the self and all phenomena. -- Dalai Lama
We shall maintain that no statement which refers to a 'reality'transcending the limits of all possible sense- experience can possibly have any literal significance. -- A.J. Ayer
Couch surfing refers to the practice of temporarily lodging with a stranger - free of charge, unless you count being incessantly sociable as payment. -- Patricia Marx
Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened outside the book. -- Italo Calvino
When a belief becomes dominant in American psychological circles one can be sure of one thing: that belief refers to something that no longer exists. -- Walter A. Davis
'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger. -- Terry Pratchett
Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around, and nearly every book represents what my son's third grade teacher refers to as a "teachable moment. -- Anna Quindlen
Shakespeare is rhythmic; he is musical in the sense that he likes poetry, and he's musical because he constantly refers to settings where there's singing and dancing. -- Kenneth Branagh
Twenty-four-hour room service generally refers to the length of time that it takes for the club sandwich to arrive. This is indeeddisheartening, particularly when you've ordered scrambled eggs. -- Fran Lebowitz
I, for one, resent it when a representative of the people refers to you and me, the free men and women of this country, as 'the masses.' -- Ronald Reagan
That's a sure sign someone is going crazy - when he refers to himself in the third person, talks in low tones, and walks around wearing shades all day! -- Chris Rock
Prudence supposes the value of the end to be assumed, and refers only to the adaptation of the means. It is the relation of right means for given ends. -- William Whewell
DENIALDefense mechanism in which the existence of unpleasant realities is disavowed; refers to keeping out of conscious awareness any aspects of external reality that, if acknowledged, would produce anxiety. -- Benjamin James Sadock
How you do anything is how you do everything. Your "character" or "nature" just refers to how you handle all the day-to-day things in life, no matter how small. -- Derek Sivers
There is no common understanding, and no community life. But in a shared activity, each person refers what he is doing to what the other is doing and vice-versa. -- John Dewey
The word 'western' usually refers to movies, of course, but there is a literary tradition of the same name that pre-dates the moving picture and retains its vitality yet. -- Clive Sinclair
The 'Cheetah Generation' refers to the new and angry generation of young African graduates and professionals, who look at African issues and problems from a totally different and unique perspective. -- George Ayittey
We all are interested in an open development, without any prejudice; this refers particularly and, perhaps, primarily to the Baltic countries, for them it is more important than for Russia. -- Vladimir Putin
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Today I wonder why it is God refers to Himself as 'Father' at all. This, to me, in light of the earthly representation of the role, seems a marketing mistake. -- Donald Miller
"Heaven" refers to the realm that is the interior part of a human being, and that the "divine self" is none other than the selfless light existing in our innermost depths. -- Masahisa Goi
The term "starvation diet" refers to 900 calories a day. I was on one-third of a starvation diet. What do you call that? One word that comes to my mind: "suicide. -- Marya Hornbacher
Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
I never held Negroes to be inherently inferior. The statement in Marriage and Morals refers to environmental conditioning. I have had it withdrawn from subsequent editions because it is clearly ambiguous. -- Bertrand Russell
The Pali word parami refers to ten wholesome qualities in our minds and the accumulated power they bring to us: generosity, morality, renunciation, wisdom, energy, patience, truthfulness, resolve, lovingkindness, and equanimity. -- Joseph Goldstein
A person's sexuality is so much more than one word "gay." No one refers to anyone as just "hetero" because that doesn't say anything. Sexual identity is broader than a label. -- Gus Van Sant
Books connect us with others, but that connection is created in solitude, one reader in one chair hearing one writer, what John Irving refers to as one genius speaking to another. -- Lewis Buzbee
We often say that the earth is a sphere, but to be precise, the term sphere refers only to the surface. The correct mathematical term for the solid earth is a ball. -- Leonard Susskind
It takes me several days, after I get back to Boston, to realize that the reference "the president" refers to the president of Harvard and not to a minor official in Washington. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Thus the word "inhuman", in this book's title, refers to the unconscionable and unsuccessful goal of bestializing (in the form of pets as well as beasts of burden) a class of human beings. -- David Brion Davis
We have so much to cover and so little time to cover it. Howard Gardner refers to curriculum coverage as the single greatest enemy of understanding. Think instead about ideas to be discovered. -- Alfie Kohn
...free enterprise, [is] a term that refers, in practice, to a system of public subsidy and private profit, with massive government intervention in the economy to maintain a welfare state for the rich. -- Noam Chomsky
There's something known as "memory conformity," also known as "social contagion of memory," which refers to a situation where one person's telling of a memory influences another person's account of that same experience. -- Rob Roberge
The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government but are no longer paid for by them. -- Charles M. Vest
Paris with its multitude of art directions calls continuously to the deepest penetration and recognition of your inner essence. Only in this way it is possible to create work that refers the time span. -- Bram van Velde
Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, yours and mine, familiar and exotic, new and old, side by side, learning by letting them speak to one another. -- Mary Catherine Bateson
Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself. -- Dallas Willard
We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going! -- Tennessee Williams
I'm writing a film called 'Bug.' It's an original script, and it's not about killer insects. It's a thriller set in a high school. The bug of the title refers to a surveillance device. -- Wes Craven
Even in this age of digital manipulation, photographs continue to hold a huge degree of power and meaning. They're beautiful and sad and complicated because every stoppage of time refers to the motion of time. -- Michael Light
Throughout the book, she refers to herself as "the side effect," which is just totally correct. Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the relentless mutation that made the diversity of life on earth possible. -- John Green

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