Subtle Quotes

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I'll never be a poet,' said Amory as he finished. 'I'm not enough of a sensualist really; there are only a few obvious things that… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
In fact there was only one species on the planet more intelligent than dolphins, and they spent a lot of their time in behavioural research… — Douglas Adams
You'd think getting chopped into a million pieces and cast into the darkest part of the Underworld would give him a subtle clue that nobody… — Rick Riordan
I mean, it's very subtle and a little embarrassing to me, but I really believe there are things which nobody would see unless I photographed… — Diane Arbus
. . . if you close your eyes and begin to feel your breath, it will instantly become deeper and slower, and your mind will… — Ilchi Lee
How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year! — John Milton
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you… — Dale Carnegie
I prefer to regard a dessert as I would imagine the perfect woman: subtle, a little bittersweet, not blowsy and extrovert. Delicately made up, not… — Graham Kerr
The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head. — Matthew Arnold
I want people to take thought about their condition and to recognize that the maintainence of a free society is a very difficult and complicated… — Milton Friedman
But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power. — James A. Baldwin
It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem. — Eric Hoffer
You don't have any other society where the educated classes are so effectively indoctrinated and controlled by a subtle propaganda system - a private system… — Noam Chomsky
Without respect, the subtle alchemy that binds an organization or that serves as the impetus for a business transaction would dissolve into mutual suspicion and… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Sahaja Yoga is a very subtle happening within us. It's a very subtle happening. And this subtler happening gives you sensitivity to divine joy. — Nirmala Srivastava
This all-pervading power is the power of divine love. It thinks. It organizes. It plans. It loves. It is the one which is the subtle… — Nirmala Srivastava
When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right.… — Pat Riley
Religions are so subtle, so complicated, so intelligent in many ways that they're not fit to be abandoned to the religious alone; they're for all… — Alain de Botton
With your ego you cannot know. Only in an egolessness, in a deep abyss, in the absence of the ego, does the perception happen -… — Rajneesh
Like many physical diseases, anti-Semitism is highly infectious, and can become endemic in certain localities and societies. Though a disease of the mind, it is… — Paul Johnson

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