#referring

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

— Antony Jay

#committee #decisions #device #matter #referring

Israel is one of the easiest places to play ball. When I say easy I am referring to the easy lifestyle an athlete has while in Israel. It's very easy to get around the country, because it's so small. ↗

— Michael Kennedy

#around #athlete #ball #because #country

Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to some special use, although this meaning is often present in Scripture, sometimes referring to outward and sometimes to inward or effectual separation. ↗

— William Ames

#effectual #here #inward #meaning #often

Good things come, and I'm not just referring to riding the buses. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#come #good #good things #i #just

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man. ↗

— David Bowie

#almost #any #cannot #century #destroys

Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts. ↗

— Laura Riding

#art #creative #indeed #referring #social

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

When the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act, Sarah Palin tweeted, 'Obama lies; freedom dies.' She's referring, I guess, to the freedom to go without health care when you're sick. ↗

— Richard Trumka

#affordable #care #court #dies #freedom

I keep referring to them in the plural but all I'm dealing with is Bob. I don't know where Harvey fits in the equation. He was very present at the beginning, winding his brother up. I don't know where he is now. ↗

— Terry Gilliam

#bob #brother #dealing #equation #fits

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. ↗

— David Deutsch

#complexity #contain #deepest #explanations #hierarchy