F. Scott Fitzgerald
Novelist
"Don't say 'wife.' I'm your mistress. Wife's such an ugly word. Your 'permanent mistress' is so much more tangible and desirable… ."
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Tangible
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Rebecca St. James
Singer
"Faith wouldn't be faith without having to trust what is unseen. That's difficult sometimes, and it's almost easier to put our trust in what is tangible. But God wants us to put one foot in front of the other and just step out on faith."
Umberto Boccioni
Artist
"We must now learn to draw inspiration from the tangible miracles that surround us."
Bruce Lee
Martial Artist, Actor, Director
"The intangible represents the real power of the universe. It is the seed of the tangible."
Orhan Pamuk
Novelist, Screenwriter
"Sometimes I would see them not as mementos of the blissful hours but as the tangible precious debris of the storm raging in my soul."
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"I don't think I'm tangible to myself."
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"What is magical and mystifying to me about style is not that by seeing we can believe. It is that eventually, we can believe, because we can see we can embrace change the more we can make it tangible."
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"Each of us possesses a tangible living soul. The system has no such thing. We must not allow the system to exploit us."
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"Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths."
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"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."
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"Every now and then she looked around for tangible evidence of his having ever been there. Where were the butterflies? the blueberries? the whistling reed? She could find nothing, for he had left nothing but his stunning absence."
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"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."
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"I grew up around books. When I first held the book and it was a substantive, tangible thing, and I thought of all the work that went into it, not just my work but everybody else's and the research and so forth, there's a sense of really have done something worthwhile."
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"An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist."
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"I could isolate, consciously, little. Everything seemed blurred, yellow-clouded, yielding nothing tangible. Her inept acrostics, maudlin evasions, theopathies - every recollection formed ripples of mysterious meaning. Everything seemed yellowly blurred, illusive, lost."
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"Where will you go to seek Brahman? He is immanent in all beings. Here, here is the visible Brahman! Shame on those who, neglecting the visible Brahman, set their minds on other things! Here is the visible Brahman before you as tangible as a fruit in one's hand! Can't you see? Here - here - is Brahman!"
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"When you're in office, there are tangible moments when you can see tangible successes."
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"The Democrats promised equalizing outcomes through unlimited federal assistance while Republicans offered something that seemed less tangible - the promise of equalizing opportunity through free markets."
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"I wanted something that was really well-made but also still hitting a price point that's tangible and logical for average people - that's who I want to cater to."
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"We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract."
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"I enjoy wording. Words for me are tangible bodies, visible sirens, incarnate sensualities."
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"I think in most companies you're surrounded by the past. You may have a Web site or archives or a lobby that sort of shows off your work of the past. The future is not as tangible."
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"Money is time made tangible - the time invested in the earning of it. Taxation is the confiscation of the earner's time. Although some taxation is necessary, all taxation diminishes freedom."
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"... A power of obtaining veracity in the representation of material and tangible things, which, within certain limits and conditions, is unimpeachable, has now been placed in the hands of all men, almost without labour. (1853)"
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"Solitude becomes a sort of tangible enemy, the more dangerous, because it dwells within the citadel itself."
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