Tangible Quotes
There are two things: 1) what things one does in the world, and 2) what family one has. There's the two really tangible things that can stay.
Winning is very tangible, it's very exciting, it's very pleasing, but it's momentary. If you can do things that last, that each generation can build upon, then that's when you're cooking.
Populists and isolationists ignore the tangible benefits that have resulted from our active international role during the past half-century.
Well, I'll say I have an incredible ability to fantasize - I really do. I don't have to have things tangible to be able to see them, and therefore I enjoy so many things, because they're in my mind.
Paradise is the here and now, the actual, tangible, dogmatically real Earth on which we stand. Yes, God bless America, the Earth upon which we stand.
The sorcerer is a Simple Realist: the world is real--but then so must consciousness be real since its effects are so tangible.
Each of us possesses a tangible living soul. The system has no such thing. We must not allow the system to exploit us.
A leader's responsibility is to cause a vision and mission to have tangible results in the real world.
Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable, and finally has come to look and not to buy.
It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit.
She began to be reassured by these pains, tangible symbols of her success in becoming thinner than anyone else. Her only identity was being "the skinniest." She had to feel it.
A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankinds heritage.
I like when a poem ends on its "receipts," meaning it gives me something tactile or tangible to dwell on as I exit the reading experience. So I strive to end my own poems that way as well.
The Prohibition era is so vividly depicted in Lawless. John Hillcoat does a remarkable job of rooting his film in such a tangible reality.
A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom - it's gone.
It is not sufficient that what one paints should be made visible. It must be made tangible.
..the self-knowledge that I am talking about is concrete, verifiable and is tangible like science itself and completely understandable in rational terms.
However, lifestyle intervention requires discipline with a tangible end result that is within reach. It requires personal resolve, a lifelong commitment.
Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither measurable nor tangible and certainly not a way to become rich.
To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future.
The tangible source of exploitation disappears behind the façade of objective rationality.
The atmosphere is different in Congress after September 11. Terrorism is no longer an abstract issue, but a real, tangible threat.
Human spirit, things that aren't tangible, fascinate me, so I'm always researching mind, spirit, soul.
Thoughts and ideas are not phantoms. They are real things. Although intangible and immaterial, they are factors in bringing about changes in the realm of tangible and material things.
I am convinced that words are things, and we simply don't have the machinery to measure what they are. I believe that words are tangible things.
It struck me that what I'd heard about certain celebrities was true: they had It, whatever the hell It was. Star power isn't a myth; it is tangible and forceful.
Presents are the best way to show someone how much you care. It is like this tangible thing that you can point to and say, Hey man, I love you this many dollars-worth.
To affirm that men and women are persons and as persons should be free, and yet to do nothing tangible to make this affirmation a reality, is a farce.
Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one's life.
Wisdom in groups is earned by gathering useful data, exploring diverse perspectives, respecting different viewpoints, and then shaped through critical reflection on behalf of tangible outcomes.
The dreams you craft at the level of your soul are very different from goals, which are tangible, measurable and set the future.
Promises to love without putting those words into action are just empty proposals. It's not tangible until it is actually seen. Love is action.
There is in the blind as in the seeing an Absolute which gives truth to what we know to be true, order to what is orderly, beauty to the beautiful, touchableness to what is tangible.
Don't wait for perfection before you start. Start somewhere so you can have something tangible you can work to perfect.
I'm a kid from New York, so urban life reflected into art and music was around me and accessible and tangible.
The great high of winning Wimbledon lasts for about a week. You go down in the record book, but you don't have anything tangible to hold on to. But having a baby -- there isn't any comparison.
I have big hope for the Canadian government to help Somalia with something concrete and tangible. I haven't seen that.
Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations.
Coloring is very relaxing for one thing. And I think adults like to unplug from technology for awhile and do something tangible with their hands.