Subtle Quotes

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O YOU whom I often and silently come where you are, that I may be with you; As I walk by your side, or sit… — Walt Whitman
Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic… — Oscar Wilde
Harshness vanished. A sudden softness has replaced the meadows' wintry grey. Little rivulets of water changed their singing accents. Tendernesses, hesitantly, reach toward the earth… — Rainer Maria Rilke
I said, I know why youâ€™re afraid to fight with me.â€ "And why is that?â€ If he flexed again, Iâ€™d have to implement emergency measures.… — Ilona Andrews
One thing I know is that it is a bad idea to marry someone who had bad parents. If they hated their mother, if they… — Ellen Gilchrist
That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything… — Albert Einstein
Men like women who know how to be subtle. — Nicholas Sparks
He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to… — Oscar Wilde
Have you ever happened, reader, to feel that subtle sorrow of parting with an unloved abode? The heart does not break, as it does in… — Vladimir Nabokov
There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and… — Oscar Wilde
The universe danced towards life. Life was a remarkably common commodity. Anything sufficiently complicated seemed to get cut in for some, in the same way… — Terry Pratchett
There was a warmth of fury in his last phrases. He meant she loved him more than he her. Perhaps he could not love her.… — D. H. Lawrence
We need to look at the subtle, the hidden, and the unspoken. — Malcolm Gladwell
Subtle is the Lord. Malicious, He is not. — Albert Einstein
What? she said once to herself, and then once aloud, What? She felt a total displacement, like a spinning globe brought to a sudden halt… — Jonathan Safran Foer
The one test of the really weird (story) is simply this--whether or not there be excited in the reader a profound sense of dread, and… — H P Lovecraft
We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our… — George Eliot
The more I think about it, the more I believe there has to be a subtle yet satisfying method of revenge. — Ellen Hopkins
All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn… — Herman Melville
What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in… — Robert E. Howard

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