Quotes About Subtle

#1. Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer by plain cooks.

W. H. Auden

#2. Betrayal is a more subtle, twisted feeling than terror. It burns and eats, but terror stabs right through.

Wendy Hoffman

#3. Love is such a thing. You have knowledge of what it is, but it defies careful explication."
"Love is a subtle concept," I admitted. "It's elusive, like justice, but it can be defined.

Patrick Rothfuss

#4. I usually control the environment I'm in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.

Michael Caine

#5. Henry Kissinger is possessed of a truly superior intelligence, in addition to which he has two qualities which, unfortunately, many great men lack: he is able to listen and he has a very subtle sense of humour.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

#6. Arthur was not one of those interesting characters whose subtle motives can be dissected. He was only a simple and affectionate man, because Merlyn had believed that love and simplicity were worth having.

T.H. White

#7. she didn't get the subtle nuances of female friendship that other women seemed to have been born knowing. She

Michelle Major

#8. As royalty, celebrities and the rich have always known, a smile is the most subtle and satisfying way of shitting on the inferior.

Michael Foley

#9. He who is not sage and wise, humane and just, cannot use secret agent.s. And he who is not delicate and subtle cannot get the truth out of them.

Sun Tzu

#10. Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft of writing.

Robert Bringhurst

#11. There are a few obvious consequences and perhaps one subtle possibility. One obvious thing is that, to stimulate the economy, President Obama has committed to creating millions of green jobs that will leave a legacy - much as Roosevelt's public works did during the new deal.

Denis Hayes

#12. I do believe babies are born potty-trained. They're born knowing and are able to give subtle signals that become very prominent if you reinforce them.

Mayim Bialik

#13. Who had persuaded me that God preferred four walls and a roof to wide-open spaces? When had I made the subtle switch myself, becoming convinced that church bodies and buildings were the safest and most reliable places to encounter the living God?

Barbara Brown Taylor

#14. I want an intelligent girl whom I can talk about everything. I want her to be my friend, to be partners. I don't like when a girl is rough, but delicate and subtle. I like good manners and not rudeness nor arrogance.

Bill Kaulitz

#15. A werewolf is courting me with a dead rabbit. There's nothing subtle here." "Couldn't

T.J. Klune

#16. When a wall is slowly covered over by earth, the materials it's made from decay and become part of the soils around and above it, sometimes causing vegetation above and next to the wall to grow faster or slower. Satellite imagery helps archaeologists to pick up these subtle changes.

Sarah Parcak

#17. Women's fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It's men's way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they're actually tied up.

David Duchovny

#18. He heard her low accord,
Half prayer and half ditty,
And He felt a subtle quiver,
That was not heavenly love,
Or pity.
This is not writ
In any book.

Wallace Stevens

#19. Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.

Nathan Myhrvold

#20. The human face is the subtle yet visual autobiography of each person,

John O'Donohue

#21. Subtle and literate, The Dance of Intimacy is like a long, revealing conversation with a wise and compassionate friend.

Maggie Scarf

#22. The circus looks abandoned and empty. But you think perhaps you can smell caramel wafting through the evening breeze, beneath the crisp scent of the autumn leaves. A subtle sweetness at the edges of the cold.

Erin Morgenstern

#23. Each successive period of progress is a period more humane and spiritual. The only logical conclusion is that all is Mind and its manifestation, from the rolling of worlds, in the most subtle ether, to a potato-patch.

Mary Baker Eddy

#24. Faith is the subtle chain which binds us to the infinite; the voice of a deep life within, that will remain until we crowd it thence.

Elizabeth Oakes Smith

#25. THERE ARE ANGELS on this earth and they come in subtle forms,

Lance Armstrong

#26. He believed true love was more like an education: it was deep and subtle and never complete. The

Josiah Bancroft

#27. Her smile and voice suggested the kind of excitement that comes when the first words in a long, silent relationship are spoken at last - a subtle excitement secretly incorporating into this one moment everything that has happened until now.

Thomas Mann

#28. Is it not true that your gloominess and bad temper are due to your lack of determination in breaking the subtle snares laid by your own disordered desires? The daily examination of conscience is an indispensible help if we are to follow our Lord with sincerity of heart and integrity of life.

Josemaria Escriva

#29. The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.

Woodrow Wilson

#30. It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

George Eliot

#31. I prefer to regard a dessert as I would imagine the perfect woman: subtle, a little bittersweet, not blowsy and extrovert. Delicately made up, not highly rouged. Holding back, not exposing everything and, of course, with a flavor that lasts.

Graham Kerr

#32. It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.

Eric Hoffer

#33. The book is what we have come to expect from Marion: challenging, subtle and nuanced analyses, dassling formulations, . a provocative and original philosophical genius.

John D. Caputo

#34. We began to see the renovation of our offices as a subtle part of the Nixon war against the press.

Helen Thomas

#35. Suggesting that you do yoga was my subtle way of telling you to go to hell.

Jennifer Echols

#36. A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.

Annie Leibovitz

#37. Really good 'hard' novels - say, Wolf Hall - yield, if you read them carefully, the information you need when you need it, in order to follow their paths. But there is a point at which subtle storytelling maneuvers outmaneuver their own intelligibility.

Daniel Menaker

#38. Verbal slip-ups often occur because we say things without knowledge of the subtle implications they carry. Understanding these implications requires social awareness - the ability to pick up on the emotions and experiences of other people.

Travis Bradberry

#39. He himself, facing a firing squad, would not understand too well the concatenation of the series of subtle but irrevocable accidents that bought him to that point.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#40. Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

Eckhart Tolle

#41. The things that are the hardest are the things that are due the quickest. The more time you have the easier it is to come up with things and navigate. I think the other things that are tough are films that are very, very subtle. Where there are little tiny nuances that make a big difference.

Christopher Lennertz

#42. The overriding sense of Tokyo ... is that it is a city devoted to the new, sped up in a subtle but profound way: a postmodern science-fiction story set ten minutes in the future.

David Rakoff

#43. It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them.

Randy Harrison

#44. The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this.

Albert Einstein

#45. On the internet nobody can hear you being subtle.

Linus Torvalds

#46. The comedy in 'Star Trek' is always very subtle, if it's there at all.

Robert Duncan McNeill

#47. Simplifying our lives does not mean sinking into idleness, but on the contrary, getting rid of the most subtle aspect of laziness: the one which makes us take on thousands of less important activities.

Matthieu Ricard

#48. Spin' is a polite word for deception. Spinners mislead by means that range from subtle omissions to outright lies. Spin paints a false picture of reality by bending facts, mischaracterizing the words of others, ignoring or denying crucial evidence, or just 'spinning a yarn' - by making things up.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson

#49. Confidence is not posting endless selfies, or repeatedly protesting how happy or in love we are, it's a subtle yet noticeable sheen that emanates from our being - our eyes, our words, our body language.

Sam Owen

#50. Reality the iconoclast once more. Heaven will solve our problems, but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions. The notions will all be knocked from under our feet. We shall see that there never was any problem.

C.S. Lewis

#51. I care about Roger Sterling, one of the most subtle and amazing characters in dramatic history [Mad men]. This guys who knows precisely who he is, yet leaves us time after time hoping desperately for him to finally grab control of his life and some responsibility for those around him.

Chris Matthews

#52. Let love be your constant state of being. Do not fear love, do not fear to be owned by love and its subtle madness, for why should you be fearful of that which owns you already.

Maha Khalid

#53. Using the word 'bossy' for girls can be quite harmful. What is that saying - that being focused, being assertive, being the boss has a negative attribute? And I have heard that term associated more with women than with men. 'He's so bossy' - you don't hear that. It's a very subtle thing.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#54. The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.

Alice Munro

#55. I love sight gags and broad stuff, but you can get to such a subtle degree, especially with CG animation.

Peter Sohn

#56. No matter the circumstances, I encourage you to go forward with faith and prayer, calling on the Lord. You may not receive any direct revelation. But you will discover, as the years pass, that there has been a subtle guiding of your footsteps in paths of progress and great purpose.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#57. We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.

George Eliot

#58. Culture feeds on the sap of economics, and a material surplus is necessary, so that culture may grow, develop and become subtle.

Leon Trotsky

#59. Credit is a matter so subtle in its essence, that, as it may be obtained almost without reason, so, without reason, may it be made to melt away.

Anthony Trollope

#60. The more I think about it, the more I believe there has to be a subtle yet satisfying method of revenge.

Ellen Hopkins

#61. It was the earring. Laurent was always so austere. The earring reframed him. It gave the appearance of a sensual side, sophisticated and subtle.

C.S. Pacat

#62. O YOU whom I often and silently come where you are, that I may be with you;
As I walk by your side, or sit near, or remain in the same room with you,
Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing within me.

Walt Whitman

#63. The business of the endgame is maneuvring to control critical squares, advancing or blockading passed pawns, preparing a breakthrough by the king, or exploiting the subtle superiority of one piece over another.

Pal Benko

#64. Our own unresolved authority problems from our youth sometimes get transferred to our youthful patients, because we are still "covert adolescent rebels." In subtle ways, we encourage the adolescent patient to rebel towards parents, school authorities, and society in general.

Virgil Miller Newton

#65. The real difference between Francis and Dominic, which is no discredit to either of them, is that Dominic did happen to be confronted with a huge campaign for the conversion of heretics, while Francis had only the more subtle task of the conversion of human beings.

G.K. Chesterton

#66. Oldboy makes us feel a part of something bigger than ourselves. It's a grand, gritty, indelible experience, the sort of picture that mimics great literature in the way it envelops you in a well-told story while also evoking subtle but strong gradations of emotion.

Stephanie Zacharek

#67. I can't imagine Japanese food without dashi, a broth made with kelp and dried bonito flakes. It has the aroma of the sea, tinged with a subtle smokiness, and adds a very important, distinct flavor.

Nobu Matsuhisa

#68. The degree to which we notice the obvious or the subtle, and the angle of light that we see falling upon it, depends upon how closely we look and the time we spend studying.

Fennel Hudson

#69. Being an artist, it's all a journey, and you learn where the subtle patterns lie.

Graeme Base

#70. Learn to value what is important today in the subtle realm rather than what appears desirable tomorrow in the worldly realm.

Laozi

#71. If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until it's missing.

Jodi Picoult

#72. I am clouded and bruised with the print of minds and faces and things so subtle that they have smell, colour, texture, substance, but no name.

Virginia Woolf

#73. Mind is not your brain, but mind is subtle clothing that is spread over your entire physical body and doesn't limit itself only with the physical part of the brain.

Roshan Sharma

#74. It's a good note for any young hopeful in this business to take: study up and make sure you are informed at all times because knowing how to anticipate someone's subtle nuances in a performance will only elevate your own art!

Tisha Campbell-Martin

#75. I am very subtle; but Man is deeper in his thought than I am. The woman knows that there is no such thing as nothing: the man knows that there is no such day as tomorrow. I do well to worship them.

George Bernard Shaw

#76. Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Gautama Buddha

#77. Actually, however, life begins less by reaching upward, than by turning upon itself. But what a marvelously insidious, subtle image of life a coiling vital principle would be! And how many dreams the leftward oriented shell, or one that did not conform to the rotation of its species, would inspire!

Gaston Bachelard

#78. Negative thinking is subtle and deceptive. It wears many faces and hides behind the mask of excuses. It is important to strip away the mask and discover the real, root emotion.

Robert H. Schuller

#79. In the 50s and 60s, kids were taught how to shake hands. They were taught how to have manners. There needs to be a lot more of that kind of stuff because the autistic mind doesn't pick up social things and subtle cues.

Temple Grandin

#80. Creative ideas make people uncomfortable. It turns out that, at least subconsciously, we can have a hard time recognizing ideas as both new and useful at the same time. This cognitive dissonance between creativity and practicality may actually create a subtle bias against creative ideas.

David Burkus

#81. Love is one of the most subtle blessings that the All-Merciful One has bestowed upon humanity.

Fethullah Gulen

#82. The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#83. [B]y far the larger number of the dreams ... occurred towards dawn; sometimes even, after sunrise, during a "second sleep." A condition of fasting, united, possibly, with some subtle magnetic or other atmospheric state, seems therefore to be that most open to impressions of the kind.

Anna Kingsford

#84. In most cases, strengths and weaknesses are two sides of the same coin. A strength in one situation is a weakness in another, yet often the person can't switch gears. It's a very subtle thing to talk about strengths and weaknesses because almost always they're the same thing.

Steve Jobs

#85. We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.

Henry David Thoreau

#86. That moving carcass does but very inadequately symbolizes you ... a subtle and immortal spirit.

James Branch Cabell

#87. For the things in the chair, perfect to the last, subtle detail of microscopic resemblance - or identity - were the face and hands of Henry Wentworth Akeley.

H.P. Lovecraft

#88. I always find it easier to portray myself as being unlikeable and idiotic; to actually play a character that is likeable and engages the audience is far more difficult. It's a more subtle kind of challenge.

Steve Coogan

#89. The acute attention that ravens pay to our subtle signals underscores the degree to which they can draw conclusions from our body language. They perceive our intentions even though we may not be consciously aware of them.

John M. Marzluff

#90. It is highly dangerous to receive the truths of the Bible with human wisdom, for this is a hidden and subtle method which invariably causes a believer to perfect with his flesh the work of the Holy Spirit.

Watchman Nee

#91. The integrity of the subtle body is totally important. As the subtle body wears, we get sick. That is why, eventually, the body dies - it's because something happens to the subtle body.

Frederick Lenz

#92. The worst evil is that most subtle evil. It is the evil that is merely 'base' which is more evil than evil itself. For it is the one closest to righteousness, the one indistinguishable and doused in virtue.

Criss Jami

#93. The outrageous madonna/whore duality that we mock in Women's Studies 101 has its subtle, and very insidious, expression in the good/bad mother paradigm that we grapple with every day of our lives.

Shannon Drury

#94. Just as thoughts, send out vibrations to which there is a creative and attractive power, gratitude stimulates the field of etheric energy that surrounds you on a subtle level to bring into your life more of what brings you joy.

Genevieve Gerard

#95. In their precise tracings-out and subtle causations, the strongest and fieriest emotions of life defy all analytical insight.

Herman Melville

#96. Sahaja Yoga is a very subtle happening within us. It's a very subtle happening. And this subtler happening gives you sensitivity to divine joy.

Nirmala Srivastava

#97. Stories do not change the world. I've learned that. But perhaps in some secret, subtle way ... I mean it's not the world I want to change.

Carol Emshwiller

#98. I've tried subtle before. I'm not very good at it.

Kasie West

#99. Behind their eyes the hope was sickening and in many, dead. They lived from event to event with a subtle terror of the gap between, filling up their lives with distractions to avoid the emptiness where curiosity should have been.

Clive Barker

#100. A subtle-witted man is like an arrow, which, rending little surface, enters deeply, but they whose minds are dull resemble stones dashing with clumsy force, but never piercing.

Magha