#reference

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married. ↗

— Elizabeth I Tudor

#british-monarchy #british-royal-family #dignity #empowerment #freedom

The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations. ↗

— Carlos Salinas

#danger #ends #force #frames #longer

I'm an American before any party preference. ↗

— Lynn Anderson

#any #before #i #party #preference

The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But what differentiated us from what everybody else was doing in the business was the fact that you could tell that these people came from different reference areas. ↗

— Kevin Ayers

#business #came #compared #could #different

I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another. ↗

— Christine Baranski

#i #medium #never #opposed #preference

Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature. ↗

— Malcolm Boyd

#both #deeply #differences #essential #huge

You can have many different selection systems, but the bottom line has to be a system that, once the judge takes office that judge will feel that he or she is to decide the case without reference to the popular thing or the popular will of the moment. ↗

— Stephen Breyer

#bottom line #case #decide #different #feel

I always reference 'Mad Max' when I think about what I want to wear. But it's a fine line between that and 'Edward Scissorhands'. ↗

— Julian Casablancas

#always #between #edward #fine #fine line

I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs about some of the big questions, like death. There are a lot of references to weather, too! ↗

— Tracy Chapman

#big #big questions #death #feel #i

The process of receiving information for me is seeing, hearing, and feeling their energy in my frame of reference. That doesn't mean I see the individual, unfortunately. ↗

— John Edward

#feeling #frame #hearing #i #i see