Abstract Quotes

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Thatâ€™s what i love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff were your not sure what the poets talking about. You may have… — Jay Asher
The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences. — T.D. Jakes
The bourgeoisie, which far surpasses the proletariat in the completeness and irreconcilibility of its class consciousness, is vitally interested in imposing its moral philosophy upon… — Leon Trotsky
Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world… — Martin Amis
-- and it occurred to me that people who don't talk about themselves are limiting their own potential. They think they're guarding themselves for some… — Chuck Klosterman
It places value on experience versus intellectual understanding. I saw a lot of people contemplating things but it didn't seem to lead to too many… — Steve Jobs
But it is a pipe." "No, it's not," I said. It's a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representations of a thing are inherently… — John Green
That's what I love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff where you're not sure what the poet's talking about. You may have… — Jay Asher
Guilt was a fascinating thing: it seemed not to weaken over time. If anything it grew stronger as the circumstances faded from memory, as the… — Michael Grant
On an incredibly simplistic level, you can think of depression as occurring when your cortex thinks an abstract thought and manages to convince the rest… — Robert M. Sapolsky
His gaze brushed over her, abstract and hungry. "You burn so very brightly, you know" "Yeah," she muttered. "You said. — Rachel Caine
In any society, order is the first need of all. Liberty and justice may be established only after order is tolerably secure. But the libertarians… — Russell Kirk
When a young person, even a gifted one, grows up without proximate living examples of what she may aspire to become--whether lawyer, scientist, artist, or… — Sonia Sotomayor
Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, but it has… — Oliver Sacks
Everyone knows history is written by the winners, but that cliche misses a crucial detail: Over time, the winners are always the progressives. Conservatism can… — Chuck Klosterman
All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality. — Thomas Pynchon
If one had to define one essential gift with which a dancer needs to be endowed, there might be a rush of answers. A beautiful… — Lincoln Kirstein
Are not the thoughts of the dying often turned towards the practical, painful, obscure, visceral aspect, towards the "seamy side" of death which is, as… — Marcel Proust
A real spirituality must be rooted in earthliness. Any spirituality that denies the earth, rejects the earth, becomes abstract, becomes airy-fairy. It has no more… — Rajneesh
Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you. — Sun Ra

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