Subtle Quotes

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Diplomacy, of course, is a subtle and nuanced craft, so much so that it's said that when the most wily diplomat of the nineteenth-century passed… — Ronald Reagan
The government and the church are two different realms of service, and those in political office have to face a subtle but important difference between… — Jimmy Carter
The British often shy away from any cinematic interpretation of real sex. They sometimes have what I call "subtle sex," which is really introspective and… — Steve Coogan
Somebody must be up and somebody must be down. Trouble is, campaigns are messy, subtle creatures that don't follow convenient narratives. — Ron Fournier
It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of… — Henry Louis Gates
But to make a holiday record that involves favorite American songs and then also get to sing about Jesus birth, it just seemed like a… — Amy Grant
Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is… — Alan Greenspan
The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
For kind of sophisticated art I'm interested in, the larger structural rebuke has to be so subtle that it has to be distributed at an… — Junot Diaz
Women's fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It's men's way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them… — David Duchovny
God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean. — Albert Einstein
My dad turned me onto Peter Sellers as a kid. I loved the fact that he was a unique combination of being extremely subtle and… — Will Ferrell
There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime… — Conrad Hall
The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate. — Daisaku Ikeda
I was the most subtle person in the world. — Quincy Jones
A very subtle difference can make the picture or not. — Annie Leibovitz
If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air. — Doris Lessing
As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and… — Daniel Day-Lewis
None of us got to where we are alone. Whether the assistance we received was obvious or subtle, acknowledging someone's help is a big part… — Harvey Mackay
Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings. — Agnes Martin

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