Best Concrete Qoutes
522 Concrete quotes by 424 unique authors
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There is nothing like a concrete life plan to weigh you down. Because if you always have one eye on some future goal, you stop…
— Indra Nooyi
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They (the consecrated) are men and woman who can awaken the world. Consecrated life is prophecy. God asks us to fly the nest and to…
— Pope Francis
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The image of the presence, whatever it was, waiting there for him to go -this image had not yet been so concrete for his nerves…
— Henry James
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Phylogeny and ontogeny are, therefore, the two coordinated branches of morphology. Phylogeny is the developmental history [Entwickelungsgeschichte] of the abstract, genealogical individual; ontogeny, on the…
— Ernst Haeckel
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One of the most serious [challenges] is increased military spending and the cost of maintaining and developing nuclear arsenals. Enormous resources are being consumed for…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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I truly believe that when a person makes a concrete decision and takes action towards a goal they've set, that the universe will step in…
— Tamara Tunie
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Battles are won through the ability of men to express concrete ideas in clear and unmistakable language.
— Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall
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God Bless the grass That grows through the crack They roll the concrete over it To try and keep it back The concrete gets tired…
— Malvina Reynolds
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I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s.
— Luc Ferrari
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Lofty words cannot construct an alliance or maintain it; only concrete deeds can do that.
— John F. Kennedy
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The customer is an object to be manipulated, not a concrete person whose aims the businessman is interested to satisfy.
— Erich Fromm
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Finding solitude in the concrete jungle is powerful and peaceful.
— Michael Dolan
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The women of today are in a fair way to dethrone the myth of femininity; they are beginning to affirm their independence in concrete ways;…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to…
— Ross Macdonald
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Looking out of my window this lovely spring morning I see an azalea in full bloom. No, no! I do not see that; though that…
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.
— Gustave Courbet
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Sociology and anthropology are not disciplines which take easily to situations where people are able to live out their fantasies, not just in the symbolic…
— Jonathan Raban
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I've always seen my campaigns against corruption as political work of a purer form than what opposition leaders usually do. All they do is hold…
— Alexei Navalny
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There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.
— Oscar Niemeyer
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A nervous excitability, a chronic exaltation of the passion, in which commingle the inferior life of the individual and its exterior manifestations, a state in…
— Kadmi Cohen
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I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem…
— James Laughlin
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The different Ministries have to work more on the promotion of the country, to build Kosovo's public image. Concrete projects must be assembled, in order…
— Ibrahim Rugova
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Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather…
— James Laughlin
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There are a lot of things that fit on a bumper sticker in terms of either liberty or equality or progress that when made more…
— Laurence Tribe
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Finally, it is important to make it clear that imagination is not an exercise for those detached from reality, those who live in the air.…
— Paulo Freire
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