In America, to be ID'd - sorted, tagged, and permanently filed - is to lose a bit of one's soul. To die… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity; it is a state of being, a profound emotional balance struck by a subtle… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Stand-up comedy is a lot about amplifying emotions and situations; movie acting has a lot to do with mellowing things down and… — Vir Das Copy Share Image
In their precise tracings-out and subtle causations, the strongest and fieriest emotions of life defy all analytical insight. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The cause which is blocking all progress today is the subtle scepticism which whispers in a million ears that things are not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Gross and subtle, pure and mixed, simple and complex - in the end that there is no place where God is not.… — Vinoba Bhave Copy Share Image
Dalai Lama is taking a subtle and nuanced view of politics and he is thinking in terms of events well beyond our… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in… — Edward Witten Copy Share Image
You don't have any other society where the educated classes are so effectively indoctrinated and controlled by a subtle propaganda system -… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Writers who get written about become self-conscious. They develop a regrettable habit of looking at themselves through the eyes of other people.… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Again and again we need to appreciate the subtle workings of the teachings and the practice, and even when there is no… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men; As hounds, and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves, are 'clept All… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I was tired of everyone saying that when you write about race in America, it has to be nuanced, it has to… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Language is not subtle enough, tender enough, to express all that we feel; and when language fails, the highest and deepest longings… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
These are very subtle things, of course, and I don't expect everyone to pick them up consciously, but I think that there… — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
You see so many beautiful things happening in this world, and you see so many things that make you want to cry… — Willow Smith Copy Share Image
Imperialism is a system of exploitation that occurs not only in the brutal form of those who come with guns to conquer… — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
Joy is a subtle elf; I think one's happiest when he forgets himself. — Cyril Tourneur Copy Share Image
An up-close portrait of middle-class Nigeria exploring the boundaries of morals and public decorum. Pitched between humor and despair, with stripped-down, evocative… — Nii Parkes Copy Share Image
Creating the world we want is a much more subtle but more powerful mode of operation than destroying the one we don't… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Walking the spiritual path properly is a very subtle process; it is not something to jump into naively. There are numerous sidetracks… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publication, the free press as we know… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Stories do not change the world. I've learned that. But perhaps in some secret, subtle way... I mean it's not the world… — Carol Emshwiller Copy Share Image
Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable. — Francis Beaumont Copy Share Image
Ordinary parties, he thought, were subtle games of sexual and social badminton... — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
