Quotes About Intangible

The contrast between earthly and spiritual is not a contrast between the tangible and the intangible; it is between the transitory and the eternal. Earthly is temporary, spiritual is everlasting. [Ed Welch, Running Scared, 127]

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

What speaks to the soul, escapes our measurements.

There are many things that you can't measure. But the great fun of what I do for a living is figuring out ways to measure things that people previously considered intangible.

What lies inside a cage of flames? The truth, the heart, but burned up before you can see it. Only traces remain in the ashes, a pattern you guess at or invent, an intangible thing that might leave a mark, but could just as easily blow away.

Ideas are intangible forces, but they have more power than the physical brains that give birth to them. They have the power to live on, after the brain that creates them has returned to dust.

No strings attached, your love is so WiFi.

You should know that there is little you can seek in this world, that there is no need for you to be so greedy, in the end all you can achieve are memories, hazy, intangible, dreamlike memories which are impossible to articulate. When you try to relate them, there are only sentences, the dregs left from the filter of linguistic structures.

In the end all you can achieve are memories, hazy, intangible, dreamlike memories which are impossible to articulate. When you try to relate them, there are only sentences, the dregs left from the filter of linguistic structures.

Your art is so abstract that I can only see it through my mind's eye and touch it through my heart.

The richest gifts we can bestow are the least marketable. We hate the kindness which we understand.

Rather a tremor on the air than an audible sound.

I don't find it, I don't think it is to be found. It's like passionate love for a ghost

you are so bodiless, so barely there

What was the one moment we lost our way? Or was it a series of moments that snowballed into something larger, something intangible, something careeining forward with too much acceleration for us to stop it now?

Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.

With cooking, there's always the tangible and the intangible: that which is in the domain of sentiment, of the individual.

Hosting the Olympic Games of course guarantees the world's attention, but there is more to it than simply bathing in the global spotlight. Most importantly, host cities can use the opportunity to create a positive and lasting legacy, resulting in both tangible and intangible returns to local communities.

I believe when it comes to love, there's something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don't think I have a pattern.

That is because the most subtle and delicate wishes of evil are not for a physical wound but for a spiritual.

Di sanalah misteri cinta, bukan? Ketika hati dapat menjangkau kualitas-kualitas yang tidak tertangkap mata.

Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature, and you will find that, behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in fact, religious.

When our poor, faultily sensitive vision can perceive a thing, we say that it is visible. When the nerves of touch can feel it, we say that it is tangible. Yet I tell you there are beings intangible to our physical sense, yet whose presence is felt by the spirit

Things...oh! you can't imagine what they were like! Things that get you here, somehow, at the back of your head, like a woman breathing down your neck...Not like a kiss...No, more insubstantial that that,,,a breath, a soft, faint breath. Oh! it's like...like feeling your soul going out of your body! (71)