Subtle Quotes

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Men always want to be a womanâ€™s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What… — Oscar Wilde
The spectacular landscape circling the fortress supplies an essential backdrop, inspiring dreamers to wander its ruins for the sake of it; North American tourists, bound… — Che Guevara
So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words. — Harriet Beecher Stowe
It (trying to keep the law) grants you the power to judge others and feel superior to them. You believe you are living to a… — William P. Young
Behind their eyes the hope was sickening and in many, dead. They lived from event to event with a subtle terror of the gap between,… — Clive Barker
If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until it's missing. — Jodi Picoult
Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the… — Woodrow Wilson
Contemplation in the age of Auschwitz and Dachau, Solovky and Karaganda is something darker and more fearsome than contemplation in the age of the Church… — Thomas Merton
Cast me into a dungeon;, burn me at the state, crown me king of kings, I can 'pursue happiness' as long as my brain lives… — Robert A. Heinlein
The reader's ear must adjust down from loud life to the subtle, imaginary sounds of the written word. An ordinary reader picking up a book… — Annie Dillard
The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is. — Mahatma Gandhi
Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. You may fancy… — Oscar Wilde
A man wants his virility regarded. A woman wants her femininity appreciated, however indirect and subtle the indications of regard and appreciation. [Here] one is… — Ursula K. Le Guin
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. The two processes complement each other, creating… — Haruki Murakami
This is the most immediate fruit of exile, of uprooting: the prevalence of the unreal over the real. Everyone dreamed past and future dreams, of… — Primo Levi
What makes the voice pathetic is that it doesn't know what kind of people it's reaching. Us. No one hears it, except us. This Age… — Tony Kushner
Milo refreshed Rae's drink and said, Talk to her. You need to get it off your chest." Then Milo turned to me and said, "Why… — Lisa Lutz
With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die.… — Oscar Wilde
And all meet in singing, which braids together the different knowings into a wide and subtle music, the music of living. — Alison Croggon
A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater one's awareness… — Henry Hazlitt

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