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 have not been able to give a concrete answer to the question of how the nations of Asia can create their own unique liberal arts traditions that are not simply the importation of a Western model. The question is a critical one and the answer must come from Asian universities themselves.
Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth.
The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat.
Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.
There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily.
America's great talent, I think, is to generate desires that would never have occurred, natively,. . . and to make those desires so painfully real that money becomes a fiction, an imaginary means to some concrete end.
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.
Birth Control which has been criticized as negative and destructive, is really the greatest and most truly eugenic method, and its adoption as part of the program of Eugenics would immediately give a concrete and realistic power to that science. . . as the most constructive and necessary of the means to racial health.
Joseph Conrad and Heart of Darkness loom huge in my development as a writer. I think I'm always trying to write Heart of Darkness - trying to explode an abstraction in concrete terms, although I am aware that Conrad's story has a bit of baggage that I'd rather avoid in my work.
Understanding people's difficulties and-just as crucial-helping people understand their own difficulties and teaching them concrete ways to help themselves will help them better deal with their own lives and, in turn, ours.
I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns.
There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.
(. . . philosophy is more often the systematization of the prejudices of philosophers than the systematization of nature. ) Distrust all generalizations: stick to the concrete.
Peaceful circulation has been interupted by barbed wire and concrete blocks. For a city or a people to be truly free, they must have the secure right, without economic, political or police pressure, to make their own choices and live their own lives.
Lofty words cannot construct an alliance or maintain it; only concrete deeds can do that.
The abstract way we think is really grounded in the concrete, bodily world much more than we thought.
Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is.
As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.