Concrete Quotes · Page 15

Some argued that the youth of today were poorly educated and insufficiently industrious, but one of them had sought to validate his…

— Dean Koontz

The bourgeoisie, which far surpasses the proletariat in the completeness and irreconcilibility of its class consciousness, is vitally interested in imposing its…

— Leon Trotsky

The place didn't look the same but it felt the same; sensations clutched and transformed me. I stood outside some concrete and…

— Penelope Lively

I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form…

— Brian Ferneyhough

Everyone complains that we can no longer intake huge chunks of text. I find that a reason to celebrate. It's something that…

— Kenneth Goldsmith

..the self-knowledge that I am talking about is concrete, verifiable and is tangible like science itself and completely understandable in rational terms.

— Nirmala Srivastava

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I was attracted to the concept of Hollywood and the lifestyle here. But I've grown to mistrust it because it has changed.…

— Edward Ruscha

In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.

— Theodor Adorno

It was the day of the worms. That first almost-warm, after-the-rainy-night day in April, when you bolt from your house to find…

— Jerry Spinelli

The sun was hot on my skin, too bright as it bounced off the white concrete and blinded me. I felt dangerously…

— Stephenie Meyer

Dreaming is another form of thinking, more concrete, more economical, more visual, and often more emotional than the thoughts of the day,…

— Siri Hustvedt

“A concrete city creates concrete-people! But what the humanity needs is flower-people, cloud-people, stream-people, butterfly-people, and forest-people!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Globalization really is a concrete, fundamental fact in everybody's lives, and you really see that come to life in soccer stadiums.

— Franklin Foer

The term neo-liberal does not have a good definition. It's mostly used when you are angry with somebody or dislike someone, you…

— Gita Gopinath

Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion…

— Edmund Husserl

Rather than giving people an inflated view of themselves, we need to give them concrete reasons to feel good about themselves.

— Martin Seligman

By Interstate 70: a dog skeleton, a vacuum cleaner, TV dinners, a doll, a pie, rolls of carpet.Later, next to the South…

— Robert Adam

Even in this nuclear thing, [ Donald Trump] says we should be stronger and expand. What does that mean? So, what is…

— David Brooks

The dignity of history consists in reciting events with truth and accuracy, and in presenting human agents and their actions in an…

— Daniel Webster

What is less often noticed is that it is precisely the kind of moral instruction that parents are constantly trying to give…

— Anonymous

Responsibility is always about concrete action.

— Frank-Walter Steinmeier

I do not believe that it is necessarily the duty of the writer to give a voice to his community. If a…

— Wole Soyinka

Everything is complicated about using concrete - the discipline and dedication necessary to make consistent batches, understanding exactly how the formwork will…

— Annabelle Selldorf

To succeed as a contrarian you must recognize what the crowd believes, have concrete justification for why the majority is wrong, and…

— Whitney Tilson