Subtle Quotes

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In a city like New York, any night can be completely different, even in a subtle way. — Nate Ruess
I can't help but admire the structural linguists who have carved out forthemselves a linguistic discipline based on the deterioration of writtencommunication. Another case of… — Daniel Keyes
The air they breathe, being a living element with both physical and psychical properties, carries a subtle vital energy. This in India is named by… — Frank Waters
It is always the individual who thinks. Society does not think any more than it eats or drinks. The evolution of human reasoning from the… — Ludwig von Mises
It is this subtle dimension of understanding that marks the southwestern Indian peoples from other religions and separates tribal peoples from the world's religions. Somewhere… — Vine Deloria, Jr.
What I learned about them, I liked. But it also seemed that the liberal line was not entirely correct, for it was obvious that racial… — David Duke
There is a power in names. Olakunde told us of ashe-the power which runs through all things, subtle and flexible, which find its most potent… — Matthew Tobin Anderson
Broadway has the most savvy audience anywhere. They see everything and they know their theater. As sophisticated and subtle as you think you can be,… — Richard Griffiths
When once you have got hold of a vulgar joke, you may be certain that you have got hold of a subtle and spiritual idea. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
[B]y far the larger number of the dreams... occurred towards dawn; sometimes even, after sunrise, during a "second sleep." A condition of fasting, united, possibly,… — Anna Kingsford
[T]hey stretch you on a table. Then they bid you close your eyelids, And they mask you with a napkin, And the anÃ¦sthetic reaches Hot… — William Ernest Henley
There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality. — Woodrow Wilson
There were sins that were too subtle to be explained, and there were others that were too terrible to be clearly mentioned. For example, there… — George Orwell
Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader. — Julian Barnes
The truth is that you cannot attain God if you have even a trace of desire. Subtle is the way of dharma. If you are… — Ramakrishna
Yeah, you know, you like it to come on like gangbusters, but you get into passages that are very interesting and subtle, and sometimes your… — Roy Lichtenstein
It's always obvious to me when someone is looking at me with an idea of who I am and hoping that that's the person I'm… — Judith Guest
In the best travel books the word alone is implied on every exciting page, as subtle and ineradicable as a watermark. — Paul Theroux
I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years,… — Mary MacLane
The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes… — Carl Jung

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