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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
No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
There are definite reference points to older Depeche Mode records. -- Martin Gore
Somehow trumpet is the reference point for me it was actually my first instrument, -- Pat Metheny
The position of a hero is not for the comparision, it is a reference point -- Amit Kalantri
In mindfulness, breath can not play as not only reference point but point of view. -- Gary Gach
Somehow, trumpet is the reference point for me - it was actually my first instrument. -- Pat Metheny
God's will can become your internal reference point from this day forward; it is your choice. -- Debbie Ford
We discover that meaning and purpose only when we make God the reference point of our lives. -- Rick Warren
I wrote a book on life coaching, because my life became my own reference point how to live. -- Anupam Kher
I can't live for more than four years outside of Canada. I'm Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point. -- Yann Martel
How can you have this reference point, this stability, that is required to maintain the continuity of selves day after day? -- Antonio Damasio
For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex. -- William H. Gass
I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird. -- Colin Firth
Business and its logic of productivity have become the reference point in a society that thinks marketing every time it opens its mouth. -- Corinne Maier
If you're playing in a tradition and you have no reference point to it, no understanding and have not studied it, I can't respect that. -- Rosanne Cash
...all I knew were novels. It gave me pause, for a moment, that all my reference points were fiction, that all my narratives were lies." -- Rebecca Makkai
The subject of angels and demons really grabbed me. There is a huge mass of information, and the Bible is one of the most amazing reference points. -- Alexandra Adornetto
The (stock) market is there only as a reference point to see if anybody is offering to do anything foolish. When we invest in stocks, we invest in businesses. -- Warren Buffett
The truth comes when you can see that your self-image is just a convenient reference point and nothing more, and that you as you had imagined yourself do not exist. -- Brad Warner
I think one of the great disasters (in military history) is the way that the Second World War has become the defining reference point for every crisis and every conflict. -- Antony Beevor
To any who know the star field well from one certain reference point, stars are as individual as people. Jump ten parsecs, however, and not even your own sun is recognizable. -- Isaac Asimov
Every writer scrounges for inspiration in different places, and there's no shame in raiding the headlines. It's necessary, in fact, when attempting contemporary satire. Sharp-edged humor relies on topical reference points. -- Carl Hiaasen
I'm looking to do an honest job, and I don't have any Indian talk show as a reference point. I'm not looking down on them, but I want to do what Oprah did. -- Anupam Kher
For me, Islam is a moral reference point, a source of inspiration to work collectively with people, to love people and to help them, to concentrate on universal values of mercy, co-operation and tolerance. -- Wadah Khanfar
More often than not, my reference point is not the kids or the grandkids but myself when I was that age. I remember the days at Hartranft Elementary and Stewart Junior High in Norristown. -- Jerry Spinelli
Without God man has no reference point to define himself. 20th century philosophy manifests the chaos of man seeking to understand himself as a creature with dignity while having no reference point for that dignity. -- R. C. Sproul
With 'Divergent' and 'Insurgent,' there isn't great emphasis on uniformity; it's a vigilante military, the state is in disarray, and there is no reference point for authenticity, so it's just weapons work and circumstantial fighting. -- Jai Courtney
best practices are useful reference points, but they must come with a warning label : The more you rely on external intelligence, the less you will value an internal idea. And this is the age of the idea -- Gyan Nagpal
For the entire first term, Obama and his people blamed Bush for everything - which is another way of saying they felt Bush and the Bush years were the inescapable reference point for everything they were themselves doing. -- Elliott Abrams
There is no dharma greater than a word uttered by a man of conscience; there is no karma greater than a man listening to himself! Since an intention precedes action, it should be the reference point for any action. -- Thiruman Archunan
I try to find a compositional structure in the subject itself, in nature... I rely on the angle where the wall meets the floor as a constant reference point, and against that I oppose the movements of the model's limbs. -- Philip Pearlstein
Your eye level is your reference point for drawing the perspective lines. All lines above your eye level will go down to the horizon vanishing point and all lines below your eye level will go up to the horizon vanishing point. -- Robert A. Lovett
The Burgess Shale is not unique, but for those who study evolution and fossils it has become something of an icon. It provides a reference point and a benchmark, a point of common discussion and an issue of universal scientific interest. -- Simon Conway Morris
I focus on Islamic applied ethics in many fields, and here I am saying that coming back to the Qu'ran and the sunnah as our reference point does not mean that we depend for our ethics on 'Islam as opposed to the others'. -- Tariq Ramadan
You don't know how to take off your suit of armor. You have no idea how to conduct yourself without the reference point of your own security... You can expose your wounds and flesh, your sore points. You can be completely raw and exposed... -- Chogyam Trungpa
The religion that has transformed Western civilization for two millennia is a blank slate for liberals. Their closest reference point is conservative Christians, meaning people you're not supposed to hire. And these are the people who carp about George Bush's alleged lack of intellectual curiosity. -- Ann Coulter
What makes a nightmare nightmarish is the sense that something is happening that should not be. While nightmares are the most convenient reference point for this sense of the impossible, the unthinkable, as something that is actually happening, it is not restricted to our sleeping hours. -- Thomas Ligotti
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 points actually help, and you realise that's what myths are for. It's for human beings to process their experience in extremis. -- Michael Sheen
My point of reference is life, in everything that I do. -- Howie Mandel
While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future. -- Herbie Hancock
A lot of people in the movie business don't have a point of reference for me; nobody really knows who I am. -- Andre Holland
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The memory of the Second World War hangs over Europe, an inescapable and irresistible point of reference. Historical parallels are usually misleading and dangerous. -- Antony Beevor
It gets too easy to write from the point of view of a male character of my age, with the same cultural frame of reference. -- Steven Heighton
For as long as one has no further point of reference, apart from the position of the maximum, the wavelength thus remains uncertain by an integral factor. -- Max von Laue
It's never been a point of reference to look to a man. It's not always a good thing, I suppose, but I think independence is always preferable to dependence. -- Catherine Tate
Without a computer, every point on a structure has to be calculated with reference to everything else. But by using a PC, I can create complex curves that don't have radii or centers. -- Greg Lynn
In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference. -- Augusto Roa Bastos
Whenever I reference something, it usually comes back at some point. I don't know why. -- Raymond Pettibon
There's an arbitrary idea that the horizontal edge in a frame has to be the point of reference. -- Garry Winogrand
I'm not doing a Mulder, there was no character reference-point. I think Mark Buchman shot it very David Fincher, but we did not know what the [X-Files] show was going to be. -- David Giuntoli

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