Concrete Quotes · Page 23

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

All the same, the fundamental truths which govern that art are still unchangeable; just as the principles of mechanics must always govern…

— Ferdinand Foch

We continually forget that the sphere of morals is the sphere of action, that speculation in regard to morality is but observation…

— Jane Addams

When media "narratives" about [Pope] Francis get set in concrete, and act as filters bending or distorting (or ignoring) aspects of his…

— George Weigel

Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract, be they facts or be they principles, under penalty of…

— William James

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

History makes one wise, but not competent to solve concrete problems.

— Ludwig von Mises

Hope without a strategy doesn’t generate leadership. Leadership comes when your hope and your optimism are matched with a concrete vision of…

— Seth

I hate the word 'rendering,' as it equates to 'pouring concrete' on ideas that demand continuing dialog. 'Trade secrets' imply hoarding of…

— Chris Jordan

One is almost tempted to say that the language itself is a mythology deprived of its vitality, a bloodless mythology so to…

— Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who…

— Ross Macdonald

The cybernetics phase of cognitive science produced an amazing array of concrete results, in addition to its long-term (often underground) influence

— Francisco Varela

To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality.

— Pablo Picasso

For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will…

— Frantz Fanon

I grew up twelve miles outside of Montego Bay. In my early teens, I went to Kingston. It was like a different…

— Jimmy Cliff

Every thought, good or bad, becomes concrete; it materializes and becomes a reality.

— Emile Coue

Mother is in herself a concrete denial of the idea of sexual pleasure since her sexuality has been placed at the service…

— Angela Carter

God gave me the gift of faith. I don't mean that in any miraculous sense, I mean through the parents who educated…

— George Coyne

Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the…

— B.K.S. Iyengar

all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a…

— Truman Capote

He was the first to reach the aircraft, and he went for the door that by some miracle was facing outward and…

— J.R. Ward

If you want to be a fiction writer, you need to start reading like a fiction writer. To do so, you need…

— John McNally

The strongest army in the world [the French] facing no more than twenty-six [German] divisions, sitting still and sheltering behind steel and…

— J. F. C. Fuller

I think it's important to understand the concrete ways things work and to respect that. But some things shouldn't be explained, and…

— Astrid Berges-Frisbey

We believe the currently one cannot speak of a revolutionary situation, just as there is no concrete possibilities of an immediate and…

— Joe Slovo