Subtle Quotes

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It can be difficult to be subtle and not cartoony in prosthetics. But when you see characters like Bubbles and Desiree from 'Little Britain' on… — David Walliams
I have to admit that one of the saddest things I see in ministry is a woman who belittles her husband. Even if he has… — Stu Weber
Yes, I think I use the term radical rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as atheist some people will say, Don't you… — Douglas Adams
In practice, you realise that most attempts to feed your baby in a public space will be met with subtle but palpable resistance. Older chaps… — Rowan Pelling
Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as that of science;… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail. — Stephen Gardiner
If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to play very differently.… — Lee Ritenour
If your virtue is especially radiant, it can be possible to open a pathway to the subtle realm and receive these celestial teachings directly from… — Laozi
My character Lena is somebody who responds to people in a very simple way. I didn't have to take myself off to a darkened room… — Emily Watson
Oxigen [oxygen], as you well know, is my hero as well as my foe, and being not only strong but inexhaustible in strategies and full… — Christian Friedrich Schonbein
The way of being with another person which is termed empathic...means temporarily living in their life, moving abut in it delicately without making judgment... to… — Carl Rogers
If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways, I keep and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Try vegetarianism and you will be surprised: meditation becomes far easier. Love becomes more subtle, loses its grossness - becomes more sensitive but less sensuous,… — Rajneesh
Sexual harassment is complex, subtle, and highly subjective. — Kathie Lee Gifford
The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological atmosphere or climate favorable to the life of certain… — Arthur Balfour
Raffiniert ist der Herr Gott, aber boshaft ist er nicht. God is subtle, but he is not malicious. — Albert Einstein
It is possible for a mathematician to be "too strong" for a given occasion. He forces through, where another might be driven to a different,… — John Edensor Littlewood
Rarely is any good done without difficulty; the devil is too subtle and the world too corrupt not to attempt to nip such a good… — Vincent de Paul
A typical mathematician does not actively try to be useful. Individual mathematicians are motivated primarily by a subtle mixture of ambition and intellectual curiosity, and… — Timothy Gowers
Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the last three centuries.… — John Harvey Kellogg

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