It costs so much to promote something these days that almost always safety is the preferred option, reference back to things which have been successful in the past. Also, people are simply not given the time to develop and find themselves and their audience as we were.
Peter Hammill

It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined.
Lee R. Raymond

Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.
Adam Clarke

Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.
Willard Van Orman Quine

Men may be spoiled by education, even as they are spoiled by illiteracy. Education is the preparation of the mind for future work, hence men should be educated with special reference to the work.
Timothy Thomas Fortune

My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to children's things, is that whenever they were asked they responded. They always responded with sincerity, and they did a good job.
C. Everett Koop

My point of reference is life, in everything that I do.
Howie Mandel

Newt changed the frame of reference of all of our candidates. That's why we won so big in 1994.
Pete du Pont

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact; if they did not, they could have no claim to be called scientific.
Talcott Parsons

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

Our findings with reference to organized crime was that organized crime as an entity didn't participate in the assassination of the president. However, we were unable to preclude the possibility of individual members of organized crime having participated.
Louis Stokes

People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament.
A. P. Herbert

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
Aristotle

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
Fanny Brice

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.
Nigel Dennis

Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.
Karl Von Clausewitz

Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself. And so I make reference to and acknowledge things that I feel have been dismissed, trying to restate those musical and cultural elements clearly and vehemently.
Dwight Yoakam

Reference to the territory and total disregard for the nationality of the companies is of course the best guarantee that competition assessment remain just that and doesn't get affected by trade or other considerations.
Mario Monti

Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.
Kenneth L. Pike