Abstract Quotes

741 Abstract quotes by 593 unique authors

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
Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them. — William James
... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning. — James Bryant Conant
Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions. — Ugo Betti
The trouble with much of the advice business is getting today about the need to be more vigorously creative is, essentially, that its advocates have… — Theodore Levitt
Money is human happiness in the abstract. — Arthur Schopenhauer
My struggle is to preserve that abstract flash - like something you caught out of the corner of your eye, but in the picture you… — Andrew Wyeth
I think you have to let go of this idea that you can be precious about everything, and let it be the abstract mess that… — Ryan Reynolds
I think games are a good medium for approaching any subject, particularly difficult ones, because by their very nature, they are abstract, invite interaction and… — Brenda Brathwaite
As a result of World War II, European artists migrated to America, enlarging the scene and diminishing Paris as the center. America was beginning its… — Arne Glimcher
Climate change is a really abstract thing in most of the world. — James Balog
I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop. — Aaron Huey
We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are… — Andy Warhol
My own physicality, not an abstract idea, makes me a choreographer. — Twyla Tharp
I was not an Abstract Expressionist. Nor was I an Irascible. — Hedda Sterne
I am 100 per cent Virgo, stubborn, over-organised, slightly abstracted from the rest of the world. — Paulo Coelho

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