Tangible Quotes

242 quotes by 220 authors

Don't say 'wife.' I'm your mistress. Wife's such an ugly word. Your 'permanent mistress' is so much more tangible and desirableâ€¦ . — F. Scott Fitzgerald
There would seem to be nothing more obvious, more tangible and palpable than the present moment. And yet it eludes us completely. All the sadness… — Milan Kundera
She began to be reassured by these pains, tangible symbols of her success in becoming thinner than anyone else. Her only identity was being "the… — Steven Levenkron
Sometimes I would see them not as mementos of the blissful hours but as the tangible precious debris of the storm raging in my soul. — Orhan Pamuk
Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest upon them as… — Madeleine L'Engle
You can give words, but you can't take them. And when words are given, that is when they are shared. We remember what that was… — David Levithan
We are here to become great men and women, and with that purpose in view, we must eliminate everything in our religion and philosophy that… — Christian D. Larson
My disinterest in your bullshit is so tangible you could make bricks out of it — Scott Lynch
The human moral sense can excuse any atrocity in the minds of those who commit it, and it furnishes them with motives for acts of… — Steven Pinker
Taken over the centuries, scientific ideas have exerted a force on our civilization fully as great as the more tangible practical applications of scientific research. — I. Bernard Cohen
I kind of see myself as a cartoon that's on its way to becoming a real person that has to find that special amulet or… — Unknown Author
..the self-knowledge that I am talking about is concrete, verifiable and is tangible like science itself and completely understandable in rational terms. — Nirmala Srivastava
I grew up in war and saw the United Nations help my country to recover and rebuild. That experience was a big part of what… — Ban Ki-moon
Some might complain that nuclear disarmament is little more than a dream. But that ignores the very tangible benefits disarmament would bring for all humankind.… — Ban Ki-moon
The Godhead consists of three separate, distinct personages who are one in purpose. The Father and the Son have tangible bodies of flesh and bone… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
We live in such a digital age. Paper is going out of our lives. A poem on paper is tangible. — Peleg Top
As someone who has long loved history and reads a lot of history, especially when you get a distance like 130 years, these people can… — Candice Millard
People who have the drive to achieve spend most of their time on what brings them the most tangible, immediate sense of success. Investments in… — Clayton Christensen
My struggle has been to return painting to the tangible object, which is like returning the personality to touching and feeling the world around it,… — Claes Oldenburg
Every actor in the room honored Sidney for being there so many years before. And everybody was so moved to be at a place where… — Lee Grant

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