Subtle Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

The matter of international relations is very subtle and exquisite.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

When values are contrasting, use subtle color. When values are subtle, use contrasting color.

What fetched me instantly (and thousands of other newcomers with me) was the subtle but unmistakable sense of escape from the United States.

The great paintings are the ones with the most subtle value relationships. The closer you could bring your values and still distinguish between them, the stronger you were as a painter.

The challenge was that it was harder to be subtle than strident.

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.