Referents Quotes

#1. The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality.

Cormac McCarthy

#2. The larger your audience, the smaller your vocabulary and range of referents - the fewer your means of expression. You can't rely on the luxury of intimacy.

Joshua Cohen

#3. The evaluative habits developed in sibling interactions undoubtedly affect the salience and choice of comparative referents in self-ability evaluations in later life

Albert Bandura

#4. It is difficult to play against Einstein's theory -on his first loss to Fischer

Mikhail Tal

#5. The first ministers were the twelve disciples. There is no evidence that Jesus chose them because they are brighter or nicer than other people. Their sole qualification seems to have been their initial willingness to rise to their feet when Jesus said, "Follow me."

Frederick Buechner

#6. Growing up, I was blessed to be part of a great church. This is where I met many friends who have encouraged me in my life to live strong for Christ. My church is a place where I can develop friendships with others that will encourage me in my walk with Christ.

Bethany Hamilton

#7. If theres an injury, for a couple games, you can have guys step in. But for a long period of time, it always catches up with you.

Dirk Nowitzki

#8. I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful.

Yann Martel

#9. I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.

Amanda Lindhout

#10. What gets measured, gets done. And what gets recognized gets done again, and even better.

Robert Crawford

#11. Florentino Ariza always forgot when he should not have that women, and Prudencia Pitre more than any other, always think about the hidden meanings of questions more than about the questions themselves.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#12. Will held up an inflatable male doll with a beer belly and a hairy chest, and waved its appendage at me that wasn't an arm or a leg. That image would stick with me.

Ashlan Thomas

#13. People aren't really mean to me, but people say random things.

Kiersey Clemons

#14. I think the moments that are difficult for anybody are when you see what your life could be, if only you had the courage to take the steps needed.

John Slattery

#15. Sometimes when you're praised about something, sometimes it's deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved. Same thing with criticism. Sometimes the criticism is deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved.

LaDainian Tomlinson

#16. This changed when Khassan joined them, once every few months, as the invisible structure built between them failed to support the weight of another man. p 140

Anthony Marra

#17. Do kids ever tire of Christmas? The excitement of this job is never dull because in all the years and thousands of games I've called I've never done the same one twice.

Dick Enberg