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Concrete Quotes - Page 2

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Entry for December 30, 1850, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.

Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

The beauty of the picture is an abiding concrete of the painter's vision.

Philip Massinger, Hartley Coleridge, John Ford (1848). “The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford. With an introduction, by Hartley Coleridge”, p.20

The artist's life nourishes itself on the particular, the concrete.

Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.170, Anchor

...combining the concrete and the universal is at the center of what makes art important.

Robert Adams (1994). “Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews”

The real thing is the heart, you know the heart shouldn't be covered with concrete.

Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 12, 2012.

Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth.

"Creation as the Body of God" by Fr. Richard Rohr, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2011.

Commies love concrete.

P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.71, Atlantic Books Ltd

History makes one wise, but not competent to solve concrete problems.

Ludwig Von Mises (1960). “Epistemological Problems of Economics”, p.78, Ludwig von Mises Institute

Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic, incomplete persons (ourselves) and the utterly concrete Person.

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.145, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt