142 Concrete Quotes for You to Enjoy

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money. Arthur Schopenhauer

Happiness Money He Abstract Longer Himself Concrete Human Capable Human Happiness Then Who Utterly Enjoying

There will be days when you feel defeated, exhausted, and plain old beat-up by life's whiplash. People you love will disappoint you - and you will disappoint them. You'll probably struggle with some kind of mortal appetite. Some days it will feel as though the veil between Heaven and Earth is made of reinforced concrete. Sheri L. Dew

Life Love You Struggle People Old Will Made Exhausted Earth Though Kind Some Mortal Disappoint Veil Feel Between Days Concrete Heaven Plain Them Appetite Reinforced Defeated

When we begin to build walls of prejudice, hatred, pride, and self-indulgence around ourselves, we are more surely imprisoned than any prisoner behind concrete walls and iron bars. Mother Angelica

Pride Walls Hatred Build Prisoner Ourselves More Around Surely Concrete Begin Imprisoned Iron Than Any Behind Prejudice Bars

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it. Viktor E. Frankl

Life Opportunity Own Everyone Out Carry Must Vocation He Implement Thus Demands Mission Concrete Repeated His Nor Replaced Task Cannot Fulfillment Unique Therein Specific Assignment

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree's fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down - bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds. Huey Newton

Time You Fruit Walk Organization Plant Down Tree Tell See Seeds Bears Through Delivering Over New Over It Come Concrete As Far As Bury Far Then Chop Grows Program

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking. J. P. Morgan

Problem Simple Thinking Difficulty Changing Solved Some No Problem Until Reduced Concrete Very Essential Form Element Specific Vague

The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Communism Try Crushed Building Down Rubble Striking Ourselves Must Instead Freeing Come Concrete Clock Stopped Being Crashing Reason Save

Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God. Henri Nouwen

God Home Prayer Our Way Most Make Concrete

You say to a brick, 'What do you want, brick?' And brick says to you, 'I like an arch.' And you say to brick, 'Look, I want one, too, but arches are expensive and I can use a concrete lintel.' And then you say: 'What do you think of that, brick?' Brick says: 'I like an arch.' Louis Kahn

You Think Too Say Says Arch Like Look Concrete Expensive Want Then Use Brick

I would never talk just to be social. Now, to sit down with a bunch of engineers and talk about the latest concrete forming systems, that's really interesting. Talking with animal behaviorists or with someone who likes to sail, that's interesting. Information is interesting to me. But talking for the sake of talking, I find that quite boring. Temple Grandin

Me Animal Sail Sit Down Latest Systems Would Find Boring About Someone Never Talk Likes Talking Concrete Sake Bunch Quite Just Information Forming Interesting Social Really Engineers Who Now

If you're a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in Buddhism. Thich Nhat Hanh

You Communication Politician Back Way Negotiation Reconciliation Restoring Clear Buddhism Buddhist Learn Concrete Want Might Bringing

Reinforced concrete buildings are by nature skeletal buildings. No noodles nor armoured turrets. A construction of girders that carry the weight, and walls that carry no weight. That is to say, buildings consisting of skin and bones. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Nature Construction Walls Skin Say Consisting Carry Weight Buildings Concrete Noodles Nor Reinforced Bones

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

Art Feelings Our Most Concrete Representation Subtle

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete. Jean-Paul Sartre

Evil Ability Abstract Make Concrete Which Product Humans

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

City Clearly Concrete Jungle Human Then Zoo

I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice. Fidel Castro

Justice Facts Always Concrete Fought

I love the ambiguous kind of endings. I think, oftentimes, that's what life really is - there's no concrete path for you to take. It's always kind of a jumble of variables. Behind this door could be a beautiful woman, and behind the same door could be a tiger, you know? You don't know. Joe Carnahan

Life Love Beautiful You Woman Path Beautiful Woman Think Kind Variables Could Take Know Tiger Always Concrete Ambiguous Jumble Same Endings Oftentimes Behind Door Really

The sight of people sleeping on the streets hits us hardest around Christmas and New Year. We see them camped out alone on the freezing concrete, and we think, with a rush of guilt, about heading home to our families and our soft beds. John Niven

Christmas Alone Home People Guilt Year Think Sleeping Our Sight Out See Rush About Heading New Freezing Around Concrete Beds Families Hits New Year Them Us Hardest Streets Soft

The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality. Paul Cezanne

Gives Individuality Makes Concrete Artist Them Things

Churchill strikes a note in my life because my father worked on Mulberry Harbour, which was the code name for the temporary concrete harbours which were towed across the Channel to make the D-day landings in France possible. Ridley Scott

Historically, mass demonstrations have worked best at shifting public opinion and pressuring the powers-that-be when organizers highlighted one concrete demand: 'Bring Our Boys Home from Vietnam'; 'End Segregation Now'; 'Support Women's Right to Choose.' Stephanie Coontz

Best Home Women Shifting Our Segregation Support Demand Mass Opinion Boy Concrete Demonstrations End Historically Public Worked Vietnam Choose Public Opinion Now Right Bring

In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside. Tadao Ando

God Try Church Building Religious Inside Object Attempt Renaissance Make Always Material Concrete Been West Celebration Stone Whether Eternal Eternally Meant Brick Chosen Medieval Preserve

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

Weather Bad Color Bad Weather Concrete Essentially

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