Short Subtle Quotes

#1. The murder that is depicted as a horrible crime is repeated in cold blood, remorselessly.

Cesare Beccaria

#2. The man who had died looked nakedly on life, and saw a vast resoluteness everywhere flinging itself up in stormy or subtle wave-crests ... always the man who had died saw not the bird alone, but the short, sharp wave of life of which the bird was the crest.

D.H. Lawrence

#3. A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself.

Francis Ward Weller

#4. Intricacy that counts is mainly intricacy at eye level, change in the rise of ground, groupings of trees, openings leading to various focal points - in short, subtle expressions of difference. The subtle differences in setting are then exaggerated by the differences in use that grow up among them.

Jane Jacobs

#5. Bilderberger Meeting: The world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government ...

David Rockefeller

#6. I just called to say, 'I love you.

Stevie Wonder

#7. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.

Simone Weil

#8. Not all readers become leaders, but all leaders must be readers.

Harry Truman

#9. Thou shalt not believe something just because you can explain it.

Arthur Kornberg

#10. I thought if I was going to live a life in this land I was accidentally born on, I must people it; I must have a history ... I'm looking for these people inside me, wherever they may be; that is my form of research.

Sebastian Barry

#11. His brows were lowered in concentration. Thick, sooty lashes hid his eyes.
They lifted and his lips spread into a grin.
I was in so much trouble.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#12. Be good to yourself.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.

Rabindranath Tagore

#14. I engage in subtle stalking. That's entirely different and perfectly socially acceptable.

Siobhan Davis

#15. What is it we recognize? The soul is a mysterious thing. It's no less mysterious for me, though I've seen my own and others' refracted through hundreds of bodies over time.

Ann Brashares

#16. Time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible, then one must try to wriggle through by subtle manoeuvres.

Franz Kafka

#17. When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads.

Ann Patchett

#18. Ruhe gibt es nicht, bis zum Schluss. Und dann? Auch am Schluss steht noch ein Fragezeichen.
(There is no peace until the end and even then there would still be a question mark.)

Klaus Mann

#19. In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.

Donna Tartt