Concrete Quotes

I pour concrete. I'm a construction guy.

— Dakota Meyer

“He was as unmoved as a wall of concrete.”

— Hugh Howey

“Be roses that grow in the concrete.”

— Angie Thomas

Money is human happiness in the abstract.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Concrete breathes sun's heat.”

— Cameron Conaway

I don't like concrete jungles.

— Callan McAuliffe

The abstract kills, the concrete saves.

— Sylvia Plath

“Time is a concrete product”

— Sunday Adelaja

It becomes an extension of your imagination to make something tangible and concrete.

— Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

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

— Theodor Adorno

Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth.

— Richard Rohr

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.

— Helen Keller

Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.

— Simone Weil

A sea of flames Rammstein blood congeals on the concrete.

— Rammstein

There aren't any concrete steps to becoming a comic.

— Cristela Alonzo

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

— Jorge Luis Borges

You know, the big Valbowski is a lot like concrete mix. You know? You just get it a little wet, take a…

— Val Venis

I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.

— Alma Guillermoprieto

Sisterhood cannot be assumed on the basis of gender; it must be forged in concrete historical and political practice and analysis

— Chandra Talpade Mohanty

Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.

— Marcus Buckingham

Nothing can prevent your picture from coming into concrete form except the same power which gave it birth – yourself. (Genevieve Behrend)

— Rhonda Byrne

No experience in life is set in stone unless we ourselves have unwittingly poured the concrete!

— Guy Finley

I've tried to approach environmentalism the same way I do my climbing: by setting small, concrete goals that build on each other.

— Alex Honnold

Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today.

— Albert Camus

The word "people" is unpleasant to me. The phrase "Soviet people" was drummed into us from childhood on. I love concrete people,…

— Vladimir Sorokin

This is the power of images, the ambiguity. You are never completely sure of anything. With written language, it's more concrete. You…

— Albert Serra

Identity is marketed in national capitalism as a property. It is something you can purchase, or purchase a relation to. Or it…

— Lauren Berlant

There is no such thing as abstract Marxism, only concrete Marxism... The Sinofication of Marxism - that is, making certain that its…

— Mao Zedong

I like using concrete imagery, but I don't feel that's what it's about. It's a combination of concrete and abstract to take…

— M. Ward

There's a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the attention to detail, the…

— William Shatner

So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of…

— Robert Sternberg

Peace is brittle and a big burden on our shoulders so we need ... concrete help from the European Union and the…

— Edi Rama

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

With all the conceptual truths in the universe at His disposal [Jesus] did not give them something to think about together when…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

There is an aesthetic crisis in writing, which is this: how do we write emotionally of scenes involving computers? How do we…

— Quinn Norton

I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds. One of the reasons why architects…

— Jimenez Lai

“But what a feeling can come over a man just from seeing the things he believes in and hopes for symbolized in…

— Ralph Ellison

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

To become fully human means learning to turn my gratitude for being alive into some concrete common good. It means growing gentler…

— Brené Brown

The Humbling is not vintage Roth, despite its compelling premise. The bizarre series of episodes -- mostly sexual encounters with women --…

— Philip Hensher