Concrete Quote by Glen Cook Download Open image “Even when we know things, sometimes it takes words to make them concrete.” — Glen Cook ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Concrete Knows Language Sometimes
Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words. — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
Right, and we all think we know things. And we really know nothing. — Ramandeep Singh Copy Share Image
“Scientists often invent words to fill the holes in their understanding. These words are meant as conveniences until real understanding can be found. Sometimes… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Sometimes you don't know the effect of words until you hear it used on you. — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
“In learning, we draw an abstraction from concrete objects and events. In creating, we make our own concrete objects and events out of the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's funny how the words we never say can turn into the only thoughts we know — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Words are humanity's greatest natural resource, but most of us have trouble figuring out how to put them together. Words aren't cheap. They are… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“I cry for a little girl's dreams. I cry because the dreams will not die, though I am powerless to make them come true.” — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
No religion I ever encountered made any sense. None are consistent. Most gods are megalomaniacs and paranoid psychotics by their worshippers' description. I don't… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
“There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies. We abjure labels. We fight for… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
Evil is relative…You can’t hang a sign on it. You can’t touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
“The Lady was medicine bad enough. The Dominator, though, was the body of which her evil was but a shadow. Or so the legend… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
“About you and me, Croaker and his gang, the Lady, Silent, Darling. About all the things we had in common but still couldn’t get… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
The people come from everywhere, from five hundred miles, to find their fortunes. By fortune is an ugly, two-faced goddess. When you have lived… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
“Closer at hand, the wheeling gulls were as surly and lackadaisical as the day promised to make most men.” — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
A world ought to have a few genuine good guys, and not just a spectrum of people running from bad to worse. — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive. Among men you seldom… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why. — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
I used a psychologist when I was playing, It's one of the most powerful things: how you can have a concrete head and not… — Scott Parker Copy Share Image
Once an activity has been socialized, it is impossible to point out, by concrete example, how men in a free market could better conduct… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being… — Carter Heyward Copy Share Image
If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
I just can't recruit where there's grass around. You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk… — Al McGuire Copy Share Image
While much of modern behavioral and social science treats individuals as autonomous agents, it is absolutely clear that the way we think and act… — Richard R. Nelson Copy Share Image
...it is a very risky thing for anyone to go about proclaiming the truth simply because he finds himself in possession of concrete documentary… — Jorge Amado Copy Share Image
Perhaps, if science is clever enough to see, it will realize that religion may not be too far off with its concrete imagery; and… — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
“But what a feeling can come over a man just from seeing the things he believes in and hopes for symbolized in the concrete… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
There's a point in me where it's beyond sad, seeing the state of the world today. It's so screwed up. It's terrible, and it… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
The psychological condition of fear is divorced from any concrete and true immediate danger. It comes in many forms: unease, worry, anxiety, nervousness, tension,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Every design is a rigorous attempt to capture a concrete moment of a transitory image in all its nuances. The extent to which this… — Alvaro Siza Vieira Copy Share Image
