But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.
Chocolate, I am sure, is the concrete manifestation of love.
For me, there's no difference between what's temporary and what's definitive. I built the church in Kobe, which was supposed to be temporary, and people liked it so much that there's a version of it still there today - unlike some concrete buildings that were just built for money and that can be destroyed from one day to the next. Concrete can be very fragile during earthquakes.
History makes one wise, but not competent to solve concrete problems.
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.
We thought that if we can highlight it, it will impact policy-makers and politicians and encourage them to take some concrete action.
I do think it's fascinating to see a play where everybody's sort of, in various ways, uprooted, and you see the older generation, the parents, whose faith has been something concrete that has guided them through a specific set of hurdles and circumstances.
Some people speak and sing and walk and sit and sleep and silence their homesickness, for a long time, and to no avail. Some say that over time homesickness loses its specific content, that it starts to smolder and only then becomes all-consuming, because it’s no longer focused on a concrete home. I am one of the people who say that.
It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.
I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns.
Adolescence has been recognised as a stage of human development since medieval times--long, long before the industrial revolution--and, as it is now, has long been seen as a phase which centers on the fusion of sexual and social maturity. Indeed, adolescence as a concept has as long a history as that of puberty, which is sometimes considered more concrete, and hence much easier to name and to recognize.
I try to make concrete that which is abstract.
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.
I'm not the type of person that just needs to feel concrete and like nothing's going to change. I revel in the change.
I can not evolve any concrete theory about painting.
A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds.
Indeed, the human mind appeared to suffer from a crippling need to fabricate in the absence of concrete proof.
Stop watering things that were never meant to grow in your life. Water what works, what's good, what's right. Stop playing around with those dead bones and stuff you can't fix, its over. . . leave it alone! You're coming into a season of greatness. If you water what's alive and divine, you will see harvest like you've never seen before. Stop wasting water on dead issues, dead relationships, dead people, a dead past. No matter how much you water concrete, you can't grow a garden.
The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal.