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Quotes About Refer

There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
that. Who refers only to persons; which only to things; as, The boy who was drowned, The umbrella which I lost. The relative that may refer to both persons and things; as, The man that I saw. The hat that I bought.
~ Joseph Devlin
We do not here refer to that literature which, in every great modern revolution, has always given voice to the demands of the proletariat, such as the writings of Babeuf and others.
~ Karl Marx
All inspiration comes from a higher power. The body is a shell. The creative spot is from God - You hear voices, everybody does. When you get older, you refer to it as intuition.
~ Eddie Murphy
There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Cam turned to point to it out.
~ David S. Brody
The word suffering is much too grand to apply to most of our troubles, but if we don't learn to refer the little things to God how shall we learn to refer the big ones? A definition which covers all sorts of trouble, great or small, is this: having what you don't want, or wanting what you don't have. The vicissitudes of travel furnish plenty of what Janet Erskine Stuart calls "blessed inconveniences," occasions which fit both categories in our definition.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
One who states and proposes this scheme makes several claims about the Dinge: that they are not in space and time, for example, and more poignantly, that our concepts don't apply to them (applying only to the phenomena), so that we cannot refer to or think about them. But if we really can't think the Dinge, then we can't think about them (and can't whistle them either); if we can't think about them, we can't so much as entertain the thought that there are such things. The incoherence is patent.
~ Alvin Plantinga
There's my baby! I cried, quite carried away, There's my poochiekins! ... Sadie, My dad said firmly, Please do not refer to the devourer of souls as 'poochiekins'.
~ Riordan, Rick
Dick Syracuse: I used to refer to us as the Cecil B. DeMille warriors.
~ Rick Beyer
Daemon had written: "What do you do when she asks a question no man would give a child an answer to?" Saetan had replied: "Hope you're obliging enough to answer it for me. However, if you're backed into a corner, refer her to me. I've become accustomed to being shocked.
~ Anne Bishop
For the record, I never described Lucy as overweight. I simply reported what she said. I have been very careful not to refer to any woman as old and fat.
~ Louis Sachar
Every success in anything we should refer to the Lord and with the Prophet say: 'Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to Your name give glory' (Ps. 113:9).
~ Seraphim of Sarov
Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level.
~ Manuel Puig
People have got a preconceived idea of what I look like, what I perform and what my shows are all about. I can understand that, because all they can refer to is 'Top Of The Pops.' But those who come to my shows know better.
~ Shakin' Stevens
It is an honour and it's flattering that people refer to me as someone they trust or get inspired from.
~ Conchita Wurst
They are both from the Guion Steamship Company, and refer to the sailing of their boats from Liverpool.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Note in the official record that we will be referred to in history as the Imperial Future Council, or the IFC.
~ Chuck Wendig
You may of course ask whether we really need to refer to saints. Wouldn't it suffice just to refer to decent people? It is true that they form a minority. More than that, they always will remain a minority. And yet I see therein the very challenge to join the minority. For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
You may of course ask if we really need to refer to 'saints.' Wouldn't it suffice just to refer to DECENT people? It is true that they form a minority. More than that, they always will remain a minority. And yet I see therein the very challenge to be in the minority. For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
The basic point to underscore here, however, is that both writers refer to Christians and their religion as different, and objectionably so, and not as simply one type of Roman-era religious option among and like others.
~ Larry W. Hurtado
Concepts have meaning only if we can point to objects to which they refer and to the rules by which they are assigned to these objects. In other words, for a concept to make sense you need an operational definition of it, one that describes how you would observe the concept in operation.
~ Walter Isaacson
Should the basic financial statements refer to the SI? No. The basic financial statements should not refer to or report on the supplementary information.
~ Charles Hall
To remove this obstacle I repeat or refer to such knowledge as has come under my notice, my own previously expressed views, and also describe and exhibit my last experiments and explain their novelty and utility.
~ Lawrence Hargrave