Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's laws wrong, it learned to walk… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
Do you know how much money you would save if you changed your light bulb to compact florescent light bubs? How much… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
I love the ocean, wide-open space and trees, but I'm not a gardener or anything like that. I think I may be,… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
To take the choice of another ... to forget their concrete reality, to abstract them, to forget that you are a node… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
In exposition and in argument, the writer must likewise never lose his hold upon the concrete; and even when he is dealing… — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming an… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Even revolution, which transforms a concrete situation of oppression by establishing the process of liberation, must confront this phenomenon. Many of the… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
To love God and neighbor is not something abstract, but profoundly concrete: it means seeing in every person and face of the… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I've always seen my campaigns against corruption as political work of a purer form than what opposition leaders usually do. All they… — Alexei Navalny Copy Share Image
We ought not to confine ourselves either to writing or to reading; the one, continuous writing, will cast a gloom over our… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
You can keep counting forever. The answer is infinity. But, quite frankly, I don't think I ever liked it. I always found… — Doron Zeilberger Copy Share Image
That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Fresh pitsand, however, in spite of all its excellence in concrete structures, is not equally useful in stucco, the richness of which,… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Every concrete object has abstract value, is timeless in the dream parallel. — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
The women of today are in a fair way to dethrone the myth of femininity; they are beginning to affirm their independence… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
If you're a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear… — Anonymous 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
For me, writing music is a way of processing the world. It's not a concrete thing, as in, "This piece is about… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
I was in Nashville, Tennessee, and I saw - we talk about crumbling bridges - I saw one, concrete literally falling onto… — Anthony Foxx Copy Share Image
When my mother bought me my first concrete weight set when I was 10, I was hooked. I was doing stuff with… — Mark Henry Copy Share Image
The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I thought not being part of the [Britain] union was a bad idea. We are better together. It was dangerous for business… — Michelle Mone Copy Share Image
Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. Prefer the single word to the circumlocution. Prefer… — Anonymous Copy Share Image