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522 Concrete quotes by 424 unique authors

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. — Bill Cosby
Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being "drawn… — Carter Heyward
If we consider what science already has enabled men to know-the immensity of space, the fantastic philosophy of the stars, the infinite smallness of the… — Guglielmo Marconi
Faced with the widespread destruction of the environment, people everywhere are coming to understand that we cannot continue to use the goods of the earth… — Pope John Paul II
To love God and neighbor is not something abstract, but profoundly concrete: it means seeing in every person and face of the Lord to be… — Pope Francis
The strongest army in the world [the French] facing no more than twenty-six [German] divisions, sitting still and sheltering behind steel and concrete while a… — J F C Fuller
The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed… — Gene Spafford
...the source of all great mathematics is the special case, the concrete example. It is frequent in mathematics that every instance of a concept of… — Paul Halmos
I had no idea how Stevenson's cases would hold up under close scrutiny. But given what was at stake - nothing less than possible concrete… — Unknown Author
What I want to express is a feeling-various emotions that I am experiencing at the time-whether it is anger or hope or anything else, and… — Rei Kawakubo
If you throw seeds on concrete, they won't grow. They have to meet fertile soil. So it is with germs. Even if they do get… — Robert O. Young
That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply… — Oscar Wilde
The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary spirit which so… — Paul Cezanne
I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in… — Penelope Lively
Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
...probably the single-most concrete and substantive thing an American, young American, could do to lower our carbon footprint is not turning off the lights or… — Andrew Revkin
The war against terrorism should not be used to interfere with an independent, sovereign state.We need to identify concrete terrorist targets and do no harm… — Nong ?uc Manh
The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering-a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons-a nation… — George Orwell
One of the most helpful things that anybody can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth - or the first. These… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
I live in a country where we put children in shackles and in concrete cells. Working together, with righteousness and hope, we can create a… — Lateefah Simon
...combining the concrete and the universal is at the center of what makes art important. — Robert Adams
We're going in the wrong direction and I think the only way to counter that is to bring the story home in really concrete ways… — Thomas Friedman
People need open space. People need to bring their children into an area where they can play without restriction." And I was told, "This is… — Wangari Maathai
[T]he man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce… — Abraham Lincoln
A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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