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522 Concrete quotes by 424 unique authors

Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace. — George Santayana
Southern culture has fostered a type of imagination that has been influenced by Christianity of a not too unorthodox kind and by a strong devotion… — Flannery O'Connor
The lover heals the world not by a vague and abstract love for everybody and everything, but by becoming passionate and vowing fidelity to concrete… — Sam Keen
There is no extrahistorical or eternalist or abstractivistically pure standpoint where we can get oriented in the absolute Truth per se before dealing with the… — Kenny Smith
One is almost tempted to say that the language itself is a mythology deprived of its vitality, a bloodless mythology so to speak, which has… — Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Be careful what you say. It comes true. It comes true. I had to leave home in order to see the world logically, logic the… — Maxine Hong Kingston
When the sun shouts and people abound One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of bronze And the iron age; iron… — Robinson Jeffers
It is time for the rest of the world to join ... in demanding that ALL the nuclear weapons states -including Israel, India and Pakistan,… — Daniel Ellsberg
Vowing, even intense vowing, is often useless. The next day comes and the next day goes. What works is making a vivid, concrete plan. — Carol S. Dweck
Let woman's claim be as broad in the concrete as the abstract. We take our stand on the solidarity of humanity, the oneness of life,… — Anna Julia Cooper
We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a certain position of… — Albert Camus
The surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definitive, and concrete. The greatest writers - Homer, Dante,… — William Strunk, Jr.
Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of transforming human aspirations… — Arthur Erickson
Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete. — Dana Spiotta
By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education. Psychologist Herbert Gerjuoy of the Human Resources… — Alvin Toffler
When dams were erected on the Columbia, salmon battered themselves against the concrete, trying to return home. I expect no less from us. We too… — Derrick Jensen
I glance back in the mirror to the concrete bridge, the one I've boldly driven straight across without second thought, and I see truth reflecting… — Ann Voskamp
Typography must be as beautiful as a forest, not like the concrete jungle of the tenements It gives distance between the trees, the room to… — Adrian Frutiger
Science condemns itself to failure when, yielding to the infatuation of the serious, it aspires to attain being, to contain it, and to possess it;… — Simone de Beauvoir
Our brains are too slow to register that every concrete object is winking in and out of existence at the quantum level thousands of times… — Deepak Chopra
Like the Good Samaritan, may we not be ashamed of touching the wounds of those who suffer, but try to heal them with concrete acts… — Pope Francis
There is so much indifference in the face of suffering. May we overcome indifference with concrete acts of charity. — Pope Francis
To sit on the front steps — whether it's a veranda in a small town or a concrete stoop in a big city — and… — Harvey Milk
The hands have to be like concrete when the horse resists and like butter when he yields. — Nuno Oliveira
Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena. — Albert Einstein

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