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Subtle Quotes

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

Authors on Subtle Quotes: Mahatma Gandhi Carl Sagan Francois de La Rochefoucauld Herman Melville Albert Einstein George Eliot Louis Pasteur Quincy Jones Tim Hawkins Jim Hodges Andre Gide Harvey Dunn Elizabeth Lowell Swami Vivekananda Michael Schudson Tanith Lee Les Brown Chloe Sevigny Kathie Lee Gifford Paul Mazursky Steve Morse Jorge Luis Borges W. E. B. Du Bois George Leonard Dennis L. McKiernan Marc Guggenheim Natalie Clifford Barney D. H. Lawrence Tony Dungy Jim Rohn Annie Leibovitz Daniel Day-Lewis Elizabeth Oakes Smith
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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.
Dan Winters

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

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Sexual harassment is complex, subtle, and highly subjective.
Kathie Lee Gifford

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The matter of international relations is very subtle and exquisite.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky

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

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

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There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.
Woodrow Wilson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.
Annie Leibovitz

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Associations are both subtle and powerful.
Jim Rohn

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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

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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?
Carl Sagan

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

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

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

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

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

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Faith is the subtle chain Which binds us to the infinite.
Elizabeth Oakes Smith

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

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

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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.
Carl Jung

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Physics is simple, but subtle.
Paul Ehrenfest

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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.
Paul Mazursky

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

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

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Look slowly and hard at something subtle and small.
Philip Pearlstein

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

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

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

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Nature's far too subtle to repeat herself.
Paul Muni

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When he grew old, Aristotle, who is not generally considered a tightrope dancer, liked to lose himself in the most labyrinthine and subtle of discourses […]. ‘The more solitary and isolated I become, the more I come to like stories,’ he said.
Michel de Certeau

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One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin.
Virginia Woolf

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Kant's position is extremely subtle - so subtle, indeed, that no commentator seems to agree with any other as to what it is.
Roger Scruton

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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

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The force of nonviolence is infinitely more wonderful and subtle than the material forces of nature, like electricity.
Mahatma Gandhi