Referring Quotes - Page 5

• En una serie de 91 partes de historias tristes de los despedidos y los descontentos, el NY Times se encuentra en medio de lamentar "la reducción de América" - más conocido como "el lloriqueo de América". La causa de todo el dolor, en opinión del estimado periódico, parecen ser los despiadados jefes corporativos, así como el propio capitalismo. Los estadounidenses están avanzando, a pesar de los grilletes. Los grilletes a los que me refiero no son el TLCAN, ni las corporaciones. Son, en cambio, las barreras impuestas por nuestro propio gobierno.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Moving, Heart, Government

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• Las cinco personas más felices que he conocido tenían la extraña manía de referirse a su trabajo como una "vocación".

  Eric Sevareid

  Jobs, People, Calling

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• In order to form a habit of conversing with GOD continually, and referring all we do to Him, we must at first apply to Him with some diligence: but that after a little care we should find His love inwardly excite us to it without any difficulty.

  Brother Lawrence

  Order, Care, Littles

  Brother Lawrence (2015). “The Practice of the Presence of God”, p.5, Booklassic

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• La santidad reside en el hábito de remitir a Dios las acciones más pequeñas.

  C. S. Lewis

  Lying, Sainthood, Action

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• There must be something in oneself which is essential. Therefore I refrain from referring to a landscape or certain objects when speaking of a picture. The hand is cleverer than the mind.

  Douglas Portway

  Hands, Mind, Landscape

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• Litmus test: If you can't describe Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage and explain why people find it counterintuitive, you don't know enough about economics to direct any criticism or praise at "capitalism" because you don't know what other people are referring to when they use that word.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Law, People, Criticism

  Comment as Eliezer Yudkowsky @yudkowsky, www.facebook.com. June 10, 2012.

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• [Refiriéndose a FDR] Si mañana se convenciera de que declararse a favor del canibalismo le conseguiría los votos que tanto necesita, el miércoles empezaría a engordar a un misionero en el patio de la Casa Blanca.

  H. L. Mencken

  White, House, Cannibalism

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• Al fin y al cabo, tener una clientela que hable bien de ti, esa es la mayor fuente de negocio. No me importa en qué tipo de negocio estés. Que los clientes nos recomienden a sus amigos o familiares es mucho más poderoso que cualquier publicidad que podamos hacer.

  Charles R. Schwab

  Powerful, Care, Clients

  "Chron 200 / Interview with CEO of the Year Charles Schwab". San Francisco Chronicle Interview, www.sfgate.com. April 9, 2007.

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• Me parece inquietante que los medios de comunicación sigan refiriéndose a mi matrimonio, ya que me divorcié en 1979. Pero los medios nunca quieren dejarme olvidar.

  Bianca Jagger

  Media, Want, Forget

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• This week's winner for best comedy line about the war is New York Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer. Referring to - well, it doesn't really matter what he was referring to.

  Ann Coulter

  New York, War, Lines

  Ann Coulter (2004). “How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter”, p.25, Crown Forum

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• Refiriéndose a las malas condiciones del sol en el campo izquierdo del estadio: Se hace tarde ahí fuera temprano.

  Yogi Berra

  Weather, Fields, Sun

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• Remitir el asunto a un comité" puede ser un recurso para diluir la autoridad, difuminar la responsabilidad y retrasar las decisiones.

  Antony Jay

  Responsibility, Decision, Matter

  Antony Jay (2009). “How to Run a Meeting”, p.5, Harvard Business Review Press

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• My next project will be a Christian album, another one. I wrote the songs for the ones you're referring to, but I want to do some of my old gospel favorites. That's what my next album's going to be.

  Charlie Daniels

  Christian, Song, Albums

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• Las teorías verdaderamente privilegiadas no son las que se refieren a una escala concreta de tamaño o complejidad, ni las que se sitúan en un nivel concreto de la jerarquía predictiva, sino las que contienen las explicaciones más profundas.

  David Deutsch

  Size, Levels, Hierarchy

  David Deutsch (2011). “The Fabric of Reality”, p.31, Penguin UK

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• [Coleridge] selected an instance of what was called the sublime, in DARWIN, who imagined the creation of the universe to have taken place in a moment, by the explosion of a mass of matter in the womb, or centre of space. In one and the same instant of time, suns and planets shot into systems in every direction, and filled and spangled the illimitable void! He asserted this to be an intolerable degradation -referring, as it were, all the beauty and harmony of nature to something like the bursting of a barrel of gunpowder! that spit its combustible materials into a pock-freckled creation!

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Taken, Science, Space

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• People were referring to me as the new Anita Bryant. Anita would get a little jealous.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Jealous, People, Littles

  Kathie Lee Gifford, Jim Jerome (1993). “I Can't Believe I Said That!”, Pocket

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• Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn't it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Kids, Civilization, Two

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• If you stick around long enough, people start referring to you as a survivor. Suddenly I found myself on the receiving end of several prestigious awards.

  Martha Reeves

  Awards, Long, People

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• Para aquellos de nosotros en el mundo financiero, el Viernes Negro tiene una fuerte connotación negativa, en referencia a una catástrofe del mercado de valores.

  Mark Skousen

  Friday, Strong, Black

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• 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

  Lying, Sick, Care

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• You know, I just tend to do the scene that I'm given, really. If it really needs it, then I'll go to them and ask 'What's she talking about? What's she referring to?' But often they don't know, or they do know and they're not going to tell me, so I've learned just to work with what I'm given.

  Sonya Walger

  Talking, Needs, I've Learned

  "Ign Interview: Lost's Sonya Walger". Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. September 13, 2007.

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• Twerking is not feminism. Thats what I’m referring to. It’s not — it’s not liberating, it’s not empowering. It’s a sexual thing that you’re doing on a stage; it doesn’t empower you. That’s my feeling about it.

  Annie Lennox

  Empowering, Feelings, Feminism

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• My hope is that in the future, women stop referring to themselves as 'the only woman' in their physics lab or 'only one of two' in their computer science jobs.

  Kirsten Gillibrand

  Jobs, Two, Labs

  "Increasing STEM Education for Our Nation’s Women" by Kirsten Gillibrand, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2014.

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• La gente me paraba por la calle y me decía: 'No puedo estar a tu altura'. Por supuesto, se referían a June Cleaver.

  Barbara Billingsley

  June, People, Up To You

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• My dad keeps referring to me playing the piano when he's trying to teach me something in archery.

  Miranda Leek

  Dad, Archery, Piano

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