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She sniffled. "Does he know?"
"Not a clue," Law said. "There are concrete bricks less dense than my beloved. — Jez Morrow

If you are anxious, you can't learn. It's like dropping seeds on concrete. With a quiet mind, people take things in. — Herbert Benson

A man may talk inspiringly to a woman about love in the abstract
but the look in his eyes is always perfectly concrete. — Helen Rowland

I try to make concrete that which is abstract. — Juan Gris

Merry a mind is

of a weeping willow

roots raising concrete

be in

fit out

all abstract. — Antonia Perdu

Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming an ancestral stream. — Evelyn Waugh

Concrete can rot. It turns green and black before crumbling away.
Maybe only people from Congo know that. — Eliot Schrefer

Combining the concrete and the universal is at the center of what makes art important. — Robert Adams

Anyone can plan but it takes someone who is agile to understand that their plan is not concrete. — C.J. Holt

To get real leverage, you have to persuade them that they have something concrete to lose if the deal falls through. — Chris Voss

Discipline is the concrete that allows you to be creative.' - Verna Gibson — Stephanie Winston

My life is four walls of missed opportunities poured in concrete molds. — Tahereh Mafi

I remember, as a young architect, people always talked about I. M. Pei's concrete. He had a particular specification no one else knew. — Annabelle Selldorf

The road is a word, conceived elsewhere and laid across the country in the wound prepared for it: a word made concrete and thrust among us. — Wendell Berry

To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality. — Pablo Picasso

A dormitory was a hopeless idea. Whoever thought of encasing two hundred girls in a concrete box? — Nathan Hill

A concrete love is a mass of emotion formed into a compound mixture
of affection, care, desire and expectation. — Munia Khan

The abstract kills, the concrete saves. — Sylvia Plath

Like the Good Samaritan, may we not be ashamed of touching the wounds of those who suffer, but try to heal them with concrete acts of love. — Pope Francis

I threw it down the air shaft. There's a concrete floor below. — Ayn Rand

People grow couches and bikes and concrete in their front gardens instead of roses. — Leanne Hall

Music is the most abstract of the arts; dance, the most concrete. — Marty Rubin

Indeed, the human mind appeared to suffer from a crippling need to fabricate in the absence of concrete proof. — J.R. Ward

He thought. He wrote. He read. He ran and drank milk and concrete. He was cut into two. He bled. He died. — Patrick Downes

Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder. — Daniel Libeskind

Black people drink lots of beer. However, you won't see us skiing down a mountain for one, or see us diving for Frisbees on concrete for one. — Franklyn Ajaye

The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete. — Iain McGilchrist

Every thought, good or bad, becomes concrete; it materializes and becomes a reality. — Emile Coue

The chasm was merely one of the orifices of that pit of blackness that lies beneath us.. — Nathanial Hawthorne

What's nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished. — Zaha Hadid

The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay. — Robert Breault

None but ourselves will put the concrete on our road to success. — T.A

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

His voice was made of icy winter winds, concrete, and vodka. — Nia Wilson

Unless and until something concrete is done about addressing the Israeli-Palestinian issue you won't get a real start on the war against terrorism. — Bob Hawke

Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt

He wondered whether it was his fault Roger had the perceptiveness of concrete. — Helen Simonson

Anybody who can't hear the difference between a ball hitting wood and a ball hitting concrete must be blind. — Yogi Berra

My published works are concrete evidence that I exist. — Patricia McConnell

It would not lessen the shock and concern, but it would be something concrete in addition to the apologies. — Celso Amorim

A person who takes a concrete place and convert it into a garden of flowers is a real magician! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Time is a concrete product — Sunday Adelaja

It becomes an extension of your imagination to make something tangible and concrete. — Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

The holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mould yourself through the gaps. — Paula Hawkins

Prayer, perhaps more than any other activity, is the concrete expression of the fact that we are invited into a relationship with God. — John Ortberg Jr.

If you fall on concrete, that's yo ass fault — Kanye West

In the West, the spirit is separate from the body. In the East these are things that are very real and concrete. — Li Hongzhi

Fine figure of a young fellow as far northwards as the neck, but above that solid concrete. — P.G. Wodehouse

Those who are long on logic, definitions, abstractions, and formulas are frequently short on a sense of the concrete. — Flannery O'Connor

I've tried to approach environmentalism the same way I do my climbing: by setting small, concrete goals that build on each other. — Alex Honnold

For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience. — Rachel Cusk

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness. — Mark Rothko

Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village. — Derek Walcott

Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension. — Karl Jaspers

Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions. — Paul Cezanne

The spectacle in general, as the concrete inversion of life, is the autonomous movement of the non-living. — Guy Debord

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire. — Napoleon Hill

I'm inclined to think that, after a certain age, our tastes, instincts and inclinations harden like concrete. — David Nicholls

If you said to me, 'Lie down on that concrete floor and fall asleep,' I could do it. I can sleep anywhere at any time of day on any surface. — Kevin McCloud

God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is. — C.S. Lewis

Ultimately, it is
through concrete communication practices that participation is put into practice,
maintained, and evaluated. — George Cheney

I hate the word 'rendering,' as it equates to 'pouring concrete' on ideas that demand continuing dialog. 'Trade secrets' imply hoarding of knowledge. — Chris Jordan

Concrete is, essentially, the color of bad weather. — William Hamilton

You know, the big Valbowski is a lot like concrete mix. You know? You just get it a little wet, take a step back, and watch it get ROCK HARD! — Val Venis

Abstract ideas are connected in a systematic way to more concrete experiences. — Steven Pinker

We tried burying the waste at sea and the concrete cannisters that held it cracked open. — David R. Brower

The cybernetics phase of cognitive science produced an amazing array of concrete results, in addition to its long-term (often underground) influence — Francisco Varela

In the beginning, some people try to appear that everything about them is "in black and white," until later their true colors come out. — Anthony Liccione

David ran through concrete advantages. And then set aside the practical. The pragmatist was gone, replaced by the poet and mystic. — Geraldine Brooks

I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s. — Luc Ferrari

Some roses grow through concrete. Remember that. — Brandi L. Bates

Perfect? How can you define a word without concrete meaning? — Ellen Hopkins

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings. — Agnes Martin

There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space. — Oscar Niemeyer

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

Rather than giving people an inflated view of themselves, we need to give them concrete reasons to feel good about themselves. — Martin Seligman

To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality. — Bell Hooks

There is not substantial data that AZT stops the transmission of HIV from mother to child. There is too much conflicting data to make concrete policy. — Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal. — Max Weber

When the electric dog finally stopped shocking him, Mack Sullivan lay outstretched on the cold concrete, pretending he was unable to move. — Hugo Krait

From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies. — Pablo Picasso

Dreams come true when desire transforms into concrete actions. — Napoleon Hill

Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena. — Albert Einstein

Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. — Desmond Morris

Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all. — Arthur Schopenhauer

The century's most radical vice ... the notion that human beings can be shoveled around like concrete. — Paul Johnson

Romy Madley Croft from the xx. Number two: Alison Moyet from Yaz. And number three: Johnette Napolitanos from Concrete Blonde. — Kim Holden

Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose. — Simone Weil

basement concrete — Nicholson Baker

Sisterhood cannot be assumed on the basis of gender; it must be forged in concrete historical and political practice and analysis — Chandra Talpade Mohanty

I'm quite lucky, because I've got a small, decorative concrete pig. — Bill Bailey

God has purpose for every man to fulfill certain tasks and attain concrete goals — Sunday Adelaja

To maximize your chances of success, you should deploy small, concrete experiments that return concrete feedback. — Cal Newport

Every spiritual action manifests itself in the physical world by bringing concrete changes — Sunday Adelaja

He self-knowledge that I am talking about is concrete, verifiable and is tangible like science itself and completely understandable in rational terms. — Nirmala Srivastava

If flowers want to grow right out of concrete sidewalk cracks I'm going to bend down and smell them. — David Ignatow

Be roses that grow in the concrete — Angie Thomas

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

Pouring concrete on land you don't own is called a calculated risk, if you don't pour you loose millions. — Eddie Perez

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf — Lewis Mumford