Subtle Quotes

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Everyone comes here for pleasure. Even if they think they don't. Embracing it is harder for some and they go mad before they truly accept… — Marianne de Pierres
...Tunstell was not what one could describe as call subtle. His flaming red hair bobbed up with each pointed and articulated footstep as though he… — Gail Carriger
I have yet to hear God's audible voice, although I have often felt led by God in more subtle ways. — Tony Dungy
What a subtle, treacherous thing it was to let yourself go that way! Because once you've started it was terribly difficult to stop; soon you… — Richard Yates
It didn't escape Karou's notice that he found subtle ways of touching her. — Laini Taylor
The sea can bind us to her many moods, whispering to us by the subtle token of a shadow or a gleam upon the waves,… — H P Lovecraft
The most often repeated commandment in the Bible is 'Do not fear.' It's in there over two hundred times. That means a couple of things,… — Donald Miller
If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes… — Abraham Maslow
Who can tell what metals the gods use in forging the subtle bond which we call sympathy, which we might as well call love. — Kate Chopin
Don't do it, Eleanor told the little girl; insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you… — Shirley Jackson
As an example of wealth, good taste, and subtle intimidation, it took first prize. — Nalini Singh
I looked from one to the other, and realized that Barrons and my dad were having one of those wordless conversations he and I have… — Karen Marie Moning
A real flame of love is a subtle thing. It burns as a will-o'-the-wisp, dancing onward to fairy lands of delight. It roars as a… — Theodore Dreiser
History reminds us that revolutions are not events, so much that theyâ€™re processes â€“ that for tens of thousands of years, people have been making… — John Green
The trouble with deep belief is that it costs something And there is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't… — Donald Miller
The kitten was six weeks old. It was enchanting, a delicate fairy-tale cat, whose Siamese genes showed in the shape of the face, ears, tail,… — Doris Lessing
In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way. — Donna Tartt
The only indication of the passage of time lies in the heavens, the subtle shift of the moon. So Peeta begins pointing it out to… — Suzanne Collins
Mirroring behavior. When a mark takes a drink from his water glass, so should you. When he smiles, so should you. Keep it subtle, rather… — Holly Black
I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such refined and subtle… — George Orwell

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