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“By saying that someone becomes the owner of something, we are referring to a market transaction, while by saying that something is a good belonging to someone, we emphasize the fact that it has been incorporated into the world of someone, of which it has become an integral part.”

World Has Beens Facts Owners Belonging Transactions Referring

Author:Michel Callon

“Each of them is a book through which other books dream. (referring to Nodier's SMARRA and TRILBY)”

Book Dream Referring

Author:John Clute

“In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.”

Ideas Facts Path Subjects Theory Drama Tragedy Attempting Referring Shakespearean Tragedy

Author:Andrew Coyle Bradley

“I don’t believe in categories of any kind, and when you speak of problems between blacks and whites in the U.S.A. you are referring to categories again.”

Believe Kind Problem Speak Don't Believe Categories Referring

Book:Music is my mistress

Source: Music is my mistress

“Horses are very keen on body language, and what I refer to as “presence”, and expression. They know quite a bit about you before you ever get to ‘em. They can read things about you clear across an arena.”

Knows Body Language Bits Animal Knowing Clear Expression Horse Ems Arena Referring Body Language Your Presence Keenness

Author:Buck Brannaman

“The Buddha never intended to make desire itself the problem. When he said craving causes suffering, he was referring not to our natural inclination as living beings to have wants and needs, but to our habit of clinging to experience that must, by nature, pass away.”

Want Needs Said Problem Desire Suffering Causes Natural Habit Inclination Craving Passing Away Clinging Referring Wants And Needs

Author:Tara Brach

“Saltwater heals, healing referring to its various forms; tears, cleanses and heals the soul; sweat, cleanses through labor; the ocean, heals in all its forms.”

Soul Form Healing Tears Ocean Labor Various Heal Sweat Referring

Author:Rabindranath Tagore

“I was constantly around all those religious images and to me, angels exist. I feel we were definitely guided and helped and I'm always referring to them in my work.”

Feels Religious Angel Referring

Author:Melissa Etheridge

“When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to.”

Wonder Democracy Referring

Author:Angela Davis

“Trials are not arbitrary. When I speak about them, I am referring to the mindful suffering.Man has come to his present development thanks to his hardships and trials.These are what prepare man for the Coming of Love.”

Men Pain Suffering Speak Grief Development Trials Thanks Hardship Arbitrary Referring

Author:Peter Deunov

“I had an ASU student looking for it in my shop last week, and he defined the Bacchants for me as 'those drunk chicks who killed that one dude because he wouldn't have sex with them.' His professors must be so proud. I asked him if he knew what maenads were, and instead of correctly answering that it was just another name for Bacchants, he bizarrely thought I was referring to my own testicles - as in, "'Ere now, mate, don't swing that bat around me nads.'" The conversation deteriorated quickly after that.”

Ifs Lasts Names Sex My Own Week Students Proud Conversation Drunk Defined Shops Professors Mates Swings Bats Chicks Referring Testicles Maenads

Book:Hexed: The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Two

Source: Hexed: The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Two

“Once, in a spasm of sappiness, you asked Q-Jo if she thought your dreams would ever come true. 'You aren't talking about dreams,' she corrected you, 'you're referring to your pathetic bourgeoisie ambitions. Dreams don't come true. Dreams are true.”

Ifs Dream Talking Ambition Your Dreams Pathetic Referring Bourgeoisie True You True Dreams

Author:Tom Robbins

“In a 91-part series of sob stories from the laid off and the disgruntled, The NY Times is in the midst of bemoaning 'the downsizing of America' - better known as 'the whining of America.' The cause of all the heartache, in the esteemed newspaper of record's view, appears to be heartless corporate chieftains - as well as capitalism itself. Americans are moving forward, despite shackles. The shackles I am referring to are not NAFTA, not corporations. They are, instead, the barriers imposed by our own government.”

“The five happiest people I have ever met all had this strange little quirk of referring to their jobs as a 'calling.'”

People Littles Jobs Five Strange Calling Mets Referring Quirks

Author:Eric Sevareid

“In order to form a habit of conversing with GOD continually, and referring all we do to Him, we must at first apply to Him with some diligence: but that after a little care we should find His love inwardly excite us to it without any difficulty.”

Should Firsts Littles Care Form Order Habit Difficulty His Love Diligence Referring

Book:The Practice of the Presence of God

Source: The Practice of the Presence of God

“Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God.”

Action Lying Habit Smallest Referring Sainthood

Author:C. S. Lewis

“By referring to previous struggles and using them as reasons for not getting on with your life today, you're assigning responsibility to the past for why you can't be successful or happy in the present.”

Reason Today Past Responsibility Struggle Successful Happy Being Successful Being Happy Assignments Referring

Author:Wayne Dyer

“Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence.”

People Thinking Men Want Inspirational America Wealth Bills Gates Larry Referring

Author:Larry Ellison

“[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation. [Referring to the diverse holdings of the library, including motion pictures, photographs, recordings, posters and other historic objects which collectively far outnumber the books]”

Book Science Nations Objects Library Including Photograph Congress Diverse Historic Posters Referring Motion Pictures Encyclopedia Tentacles Multimedia

Author:Daniel J. Boorstin

“When I said there was only one Judy Dench, I was, of course, referring to myself.”

Said Courses Referring Nightlife

Author:Carl Barat

“At the end of every day, having a clientele that speaks well of you, that's the largest source of business. I don't care what kind of business you're in. Clients referring us to their friends or relatives is so much more powerful than any advertising we could ever do.”

Wells Kind Ends Care Speak Powerful Source Don't Care Advertising I Don't Care Clients Referring Customer Success

Author:Charles R. Schwab

“I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget.”

Want Forget Media Let Me Divorced Disturbing Referring

Author:Bianca Jagger

“This week's winner for best comedy line about the war is New York Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer. Referring to - well, it doesn't really matter what he was referring to.”

Wells War Matter Politics Lines Comedy Week New York Democratic Winner Referring Best Comedy

Book:How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter

Source: How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter

“Referring to the bad sun conditions in left field at the stadium: It gets late out there early.”

Left Sun Conditions Fields Late Weather Stadiums Referring Left Field Baseball Field

Author:Yogi Berra

“Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.”

Matter Decision Responsibility Authority Devices Committees Referring

Book:How to Run a Meeting

Source: How to Run a Meeting

“My next project will be a Christian album, another one. I wrote the songs for the ones you're referring to, but I want to do some of my old gospel favorites. That's what my next album's going to be.”

Want Christian Song Next Projects Albums Referring

Author:Charlie Daniels

“The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy - but the ones that contain the deepest explanations.”

Levels Particular Theory Size Scales Explanation Complexity Privileged Hierarchy Referring

Book:The Fabric of Reality

Source: The Fabric of Reality

“[Coleridge] selected an instance of what was called the sublime, in DARWIN, who imagined the creation of the universe to have taken place in a moment, by the explosion of a mass of matter in the womb, or centre of space. In one and the same instant of time, suns and planets shot into systems in every direction, and filled and spangled the illimitable void! He asserted this to be an intolerable degradation -referring, as it were, all the beauty and harmony of nature to something like the bursting of a barrel of gunpowder! that spit its combustible materials into a pock-freckled creation!”

“People were referring to me as the new Anita Bryant. Anita would get a little jealous.”

People Littles Jealous Referring

Book:I Can't Believe I Said That!

Source: I Can't Believe I Said That!

“Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn't it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.”

Giving Two Ends Kids Feet Fronts Civilization Hundred Yards Cliffs Dwelling Referring Freeways Raising Kids

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

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