The child asks of the Father whom he knows. Thus, the essence of Christian prayer is not general adoration, but definite, concrete… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Without difficulties, life would be like a stream without rocks and curves – about as interesting as concrete. Without problems, there can… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
It's like if you plant something in the concrete and if it grow and the rose petal got all kinds of scratches… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
I don't have what German directors call 'a concept' - a solid, fixed sense of the pattern that you should impose on… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
The trouble with much of the advice business is getting today about the need to be more vigorously creative is, essentially, that… — Theodore Levitt Copy Share Image
Authentic Christians are persons who stand apart from others. Their character seems deeper, their ideas fresher, their spirit softer, their courage greater,… — Bill Hybels Copy Share Image
Since time immemorial and pre-industrial, 'greed' has been the accusation hurled at the rich by the concrete-bound illiterates who were unable to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
in the place I am from ... a grave is topped off with a huge mound of loose earth - carelessly, as… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
A narcissist society, in which each person is busy looking out for number one, can build neither brotherhood nor community. Aren't we… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Listen to us rather than to Arkady Mamontov talking about us. Don't twist and distort everything we say. Let us enter into… — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Copy Share Image
[Vladimir] Putin spoke unabashedly about the importance of national sovereignty in Syria, a concept apparently near and dear to his heart, unless… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
In your system of reality you are learning what mental energy is, and how to use it. You do this by constantly… — Seth Copy Share Image
No Temple made by mortal human hands can ever compare to the Temple made by the gods themselves. That building of wood… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
But almost always, during the initial stage of the struggle, the oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors,… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The practical man demands an appearance of reality at least. Always dealing in the concrete, he regards mathematical terms not as symbols… — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look… — Alexander Kluge Copy Share Image
I think probably - I think, you know, when you're first dating somebody, if they're just not that physical with you, if… — Greg Behrendt Copy Share Image
Landscaping is the great cardinal sin of modern architecture. It's not your garden, it's not a park - it's a formless patch… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
Perhaps, if science is clever enough to see, it will realize that religion may not be too far off with its concrete… — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
You know what girls are like. They turn twenty or twenty-one and all of a sudden they start having these concrete ideas.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There is nothing like a concrete life plan to weigh you down. Because if you always have one eye on some future… — Indra Nooyi Copy Share Image
Concrete is momentarily unformed matter seeking its natural completion, filling in the last corners of its allowed space, finding a form. It… — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
Chairman Mao's greatest contribution was that he applied the principles of Marxism-Leninism to the concrete practice of the Chinese revolution, pointing the… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
Our thesis is that symbols and myths are an expression of man's unique self-consciousness, his capacity to transcend the immediate concrete situation… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Truth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
By preaching the doctrine that nothing is to be admired except steel and concrete, one merely makes it a little surer that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
An idol is not necessarily something concrete, like a golden calf. It can also be something abstract, like matter. Is matter part… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
No matter what else you came up against, if you could smile and laugh while a monkey did you with chestnuts in… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
When your head is smashing into the concrete you don't have question about whether it's a real sensation. And ultimately, that's what's… — Will Sheff Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I'd practise Chopin on piano - and I love Chopin! He's my dawg! Then I'd go out… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Rain was coming down in sheets. I could hear it, on the concrete outside and on the old building above me. It… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The challenge for UNFPA is to help countries as we always have with no agenda of our own; with sensitivity towards unique… — Thoraya Obaid Copy Share Image
I would never talk just to be social. Now, to sit down with a bunch of engineers and talk about the latest… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment,… — Carter Heyward Copy Share Image
A fact which is not denied but whose truths are rationalized loses its objective base. It ceases to be concrete and becomes… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The dignity of history consists in reciting events with truth and accuracy, and in presenting human agents and their actions in an… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
When I'm in a city that's just clean, concrete lines, I get really short of breath and confused. It's much more interesting… — Feist Copy Share Image