Subtle Quotes

Untouchability is a many-headed monster and forms, some of them so subtle as not to be easily detected.

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

One’s visual language is not something that manifests overnight. It develops organically over a life-time. The shifts can be so subtle as to be virtually imperceptible and, at times, will come to fruition so rapidly, and with such force, that the profundity is all-consuming. That is life’s work.

Sexual harassment is complex, subtle, and highly subjective.

Some people are more expressive in worship. Some people more subtle and it's all good

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

The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.

Train yourself to be in awe of the subtle, and you will live in a world of beauty and ease.

The devil is so subtle that he dominates man and persuades him at the same time that he is not being dominated.

Fear is the most subtle and destructive of all human diseases.

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

Miss not the occasion; by the forelock take that subtle power, the never-halting time.

It's not subtle or restrained. It's not any of the things you like to think apply to your acting.

The matter of international relations is very subtle and exquisite.

Archetypes are universal, and, in subtle or extravagant ways, interchangeable.

In very subtle ways, how we regard ourselves and others continually changes us into something new.

There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.

No life is well-rounded without the subtle inspiration of beauty.

Ma petite is not a subtle woman. Unless you say it, she will not understand it.

Nondistraction means not being lost in subtle undercurrents of delusion or indifferent stupor.

Make all visual distinctions as subtle as possible, but still clear and effective.

Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.

It is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realise the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.

Fear is the most subtle and destructive of all hueman diseases. Fear kills dreams!

A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.

Associations are both subtle and powerful.

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.

How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?

Faith is the subtle chain Which binds us to the infinite.

We need to look at the subtle, the hidden, and the unspoken.

So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.

Subtle astral colors... are hidden in everything around you. Could you but see, you would be amazed at their beauty.

But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.

Raffiniert ist der Herr Gott, aber boshaft ist er nicht. God is subtle, but he is not malicious.

I'm an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.

The way brainwashing works is subtle and takes a long time.

Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it.

Physics is simple, but subtle.

Even when I begin with a situation that's basically funny or sad, I like to keep poking around in it. I like to get into the middle of a relationship, to explore the subtle places.

From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media.

The most subtle flattery that a woman can receive is by actions, not by words.

The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.

Procrastination is also a subtle act of corruption – it corrupts valuable time

Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death

Women are complex and subtle. Men are simple and direct.

Science proceeds by successive answers to questions more and more subtle, coming nearer and nearer to the very essence of phenomena.

Look slowly and hard at something subtle and small.

The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is.

The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.

The mathematical sciences wield their particular language made of digits and signs, no less subtle than any other.