#refer

The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States, have been cited. It has been said that those petitions were not received. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#cited #house #matter #petitions #proceedings

People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#class #class struggle #constraints #corpse #everyday

The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College. ↗

— Godfried Danneels

#also #boston #college #conference #crash

I prefer ordinary girls - you know, college students, waitresses, that sort of thing. Most of the girls I go out with are just good friends. Just because I go out to the cinema with a girl, it doesn't mean we are dating. ↗

— Leonardo DiCaprio

#cinema #college #college students #dating #friends

It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#arrangements #done #harm #looser #more

I don't care too much what happened in the past. I prefer to focus on what is coming next and I am really looking forward to it. ↗

— Sebastian Vettel

#care #coming #focus #forward #happened

I've a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really do take the work of moral and social responsibilities that ought to be taken on by governments. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#calling #charity #governments #i #i think

I prefer leaving things to the market as much as possible. ↗

— Dorothy Denning

#leaving #market #much #possible #prefer

I don't prefer much of film over stage... The only thing I prefer is the paycheck. ↗

— Marisa Tomei

#i #much #only #over #paycheck

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself. ↗

— Francois Truffaut

#i #itself #life #preferred #reflection