Quotes of Subtle - somelinesforyou

“ Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then we can depend on someone to make them subtle. ”

- D. J. Enright

“ There is space within sisterhood for likeness and difference, for the subtle differences that challenge and delight; there is space for disappointment and surprise. ”

- Christine Downing

“ I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows. ”

- Emily Carr

“ We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Time is the subtle thief of youth. ”

- John Milton

“ Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh just, subtle, and mighty opium! ”

- Thomas De Quincey

“ There is one subtle but important difference between genius and stupidity and that is that genius has its limits. You'll see yourself clearest in the eyes of your friends. ”

- Unknown

“ Then I thought of reading — the nice and subtle happiness of reading … this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication. ”

- Logan Pearsall Smith

“ The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder. ”

- Jim Morrison

“ The mind is very subtle, difficult to perceive, and restless. The wise person should guard it, since a guarded mind is conducive to joyfulness. ”

- Buddha

“ Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour. ”

- Mike Myers

“ Love makes a subtle man out of a crude one, it gives eloquence to the mute, it gives courage the cowardly and makes the idle quick and sharp. ”

- Juan Ruiz

“ It is very difficult to conceive of a hoaxer, so subtle, so knowledgeable - so sick - who would deliberately fake a footprint of this nature. ”

- John Napier

“ Tall, bald, and pouch-eyed, with a velvet voice, a droll wit and the face of a cunning bloodhound a performer who made audiences twitter and roar with subtle ease. ”

- Robert D. McFadden

“ Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it. He must always be a stranger to the place he loves, and its people. ”

- Willie Morris

“ Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor's speech into sorcery. ”

- T. E. Kalem

“ There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to continually analyze why they write, where it all comes from, where it's going to. ”

- Kazuo Ishiguro

“ But to make a holiday record that involves favorite American songs and then also get to sing about Jesus birth, it just seemed like a real easy, subtle way to combine a couple of things that I love. ”

- Amy Grant

“ It did not feel like something that was going to take over my life and destroy it. It felt like a subtle flower instead of a manipulative demon. That's the mystery of heroin. ”

- Corey Feldman

“ Be extremely subtle, to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate. ”

- Sun tzu

“ How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year! ”

- John Milton

“ Honesty without compassion and understanding is not honesty, but subtle hostility. ”

- Rose N. Franzblau

“ Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ God is subtle, but He is not malicious. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Faith is the subtle chain which binds us to the infinite. ”

- Elizabeth Elton Smith

“ Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and not with the Master. ”

- Oswald Chambers

“ Command by instinct is swifter, subtler, deeper, more accurate, more in touch with reality than command by conscious mind. The discovery takes one's breath away. ”

- Michael Novak

“ But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power. ”

- James Baldwin
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