#concrete

I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns. ↗

— Jeff Bingaman

#concerns #concrete #contributions #criteria #economic

Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects? ↗

— Sergei Eisenstein

#arise #cinema #combination #concepts #concrete

We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building up Iraqi security forces, and handing over Iraq to the Iraqi people. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#clear #concrete #defeating #forces #handing

The ABC of our profession is to avoid these large abstract terms in order to try to discover behind them the only concrete realities, which are human beings. ↗

— Marc Bloch

#abstract #avoid #behind #beings #concrete

So we in Congress have a very clear choice. We can take largely symbolic action and sit back and fiddle while Americans burn more gasoline. Or we can pass concrete, effective legislation that will save consumers money while significantly reducing U.S. oil consumption. ↗

— Sherwood Boehlert

#back #burn #choice #clear #concrete

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#art #concrete #individual #platonic

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

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#becomes #concrete #obscure #thought #unconscious

I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.' ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#concrete #cyclic #each #entire #form

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

#capable #concrete #devotes #enjoying #happiness

We believe the currently one cannot speak of a revolutionary situation, just as there is no concrete possibilities of an immediate and comprehensive assumption of power by the people. ↗

— Joe Slovo

#believe #by the people #cannot #comprehensive #concrete