Concrete Quotes

• I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.

  

  George Carlin
  • Flower
  • Grow Up
  • Concrete

• The Qur'an is in many ways far less concrete than the Bible, relying on the esoteric more often than the apparent.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Bible
  • More
  • Concrete

• As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Like
  • Sometimes
  • Concrete

• Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Honor
  • Glory
  • Abstract

• I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Water
  • Find
  • Concrete

• What's nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Nice
  • Looks
  • Concrete

• Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Philosophy
  • Only
  • Concrete

• If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesn't get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational.

  

  Lars Peter Hansen
  • You
  • Alone
  • Concrete

• The artistic capability of reinforced concrete is so fantastic - that is the way to go.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Way
  • Concrete
  • Capability

• It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for that, I suppose, is 'faith.'

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Faith
  • Knowing
  • Commit

• I don't like concrete jungles.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • Like
  • Concrete

• Each material has its specific characteristics which we must understand if we want to use it. This is no less true of steel and concrete.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • True
  • Materials
  • Characteristics

• We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Hungry
  • Images
  • Concrete

• One of the most obvious reasons to start using timber rather than concrete is that it's the one commonly grown and therefore exceptionally renewable building material that we have available to us. And it acts as storage for carbon dioxide.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Start
  • Building
  • Concrete

• The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Life is
  • Cynical
  • Concrete

• If theological ideas prove to have a value for concrete life, they will be true, for pragmatism, in the sense of being good for so much. How much more they are true, will depend entirely on their relations to the other truths that also have to be acknowledged.

  

  William James
  • Relation
  • Concrete
  • Pragmatism

• Everyone of our thoughts, good or bad, becomes concrete, materializes, and becomes in short a reality.

  

  Emile Coue
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Reality

• Listen to the women. Women say exactly what they want. Who has concrete plans - not macroeconomics but kitchen table economics. Who will change the situation for their families, and help restore the middle class. Women are also sick to death of having their bodies and their lives treated as a political football.

  

  Celinda Lake
  • Political
  • Sick
  • Helping

• Compared with men, it is probable that brutes neither attend to abstract characters, nor have associations by similarity. Their thoughts probably pass from one concrete object to its habitual concrete successor far more uniformly than is the case with us. In other words, their associations of ideas are almost exclusively by contiguity. So far, however, as any brute might think by abstract characters instead of by association of con cretes, he would have to be admitted to be a reasoner in the true human sense. How far this may take place is quite uncertain.

  

  William James
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Character

• I love running in nature. I don't like running on the streets, I don't like running in the city, I don't like running on the concrete. I love running in nature, so Jamaica provides a lot of that for me.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Nature
  • City
  • Running

• I sat on the concrete stump, collecting snow atop my dome, benumbed and befucked by my colossal overpowering lack of knowledge.

  

  James Kirkwood
  • Concrete
  • Stump

• If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation would be easier to follow.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Form
  • Discoveries
  • Stick

• Being a member of the court is a lot like walking through fresh concrete. Do you remember doing that as a child and leaving a footprint and it hardens after you? I'm afraid that's what we do and we look back and we see those opinions we've written and they've sort of hardened after us.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Children
  • Remember
  • Opinion

• A revolution was never fought, throughout history, for ideals. Revolutions were fought for much more concrete things: food, clothes, housing, and to relieve intolerable oppression. … I know of no one, outside of Patrick Henry, willing to die for an abstraction.

  

  William Powell
  • Revolution
  • Clothes
  • Oppression

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