Concrete Quotes
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I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.
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As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.
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The Qur'an is in many ways far less concrete than the Bible, relying on the esoteric more often than the apparent.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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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.
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The artistic capability of reinforced concrete is so fantastic - that is the way to go.
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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.
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I don't like concrete jungles.
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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.
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What's nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished.
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Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.
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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.'
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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.
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The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.
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Everyone of our thoughts, good or bad, becomes concrete, materializes, and becomes in short a reality.
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I sat on the concrete stump, collecting snow atop my dome, benumbed and befucked by my colossal overpowering lack of knowledge.
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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.
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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.
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Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract
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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.
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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.
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God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is.
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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.
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The surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definitive, and concrete. The greatest writers - Homer, Dante, Shakespeare - are effective largely because they deal in particulars and report the details that matter. Their words call up pictures.
