Subtleties Quotes

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I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of… — Kate Chopin
The average player would rather play than watch. Those who don't play can't possibly appreciate the subtleties of the game. Trying to get their attention… — Bob Toski
Spiritual wisdom consists in finding out the subtleties, policies, and depths of any indwelling sin... to trace this serpent in all its turnings and windings;… — John Owen
Someone once said that middle age is like rereading a book that you haven't read since you were a callow youth. The first time around… — Eda LeShan
The bully mind is not capable of loving or respecting others nor can it love or respect itself. Life's subtleties and the means of survival… — Rick Stein
If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences, they would learn as thoroughly… — Christine de Pizan
Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or for the exercise… — Joseph Story
Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to… — Thomas Jefferson
We must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties, which we assume only accessorize our days are in fact here for… — Emma Thompson
Can't stand it. Too many amps, too much volume, it's just flat-out ear assault. Speedy guitars leave me not feeling detached but physically upset. When… — Jeff Beck
Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets. — Constantin Stanislavski
The best designs of all are organic, evolving from the subtleties of the ground they inhabit. — Tom Doak
If it were customary to send little girls to school and teach them the same subjects as are taught to boys, they would learn just… — Christine de Pizan
I still don't know how to express the really delicate personal stuff. People think that Plastic Ono is very personal, but there are some subtleties… — John Lennon
There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious. — C.S. Lewis
My audience has developed so that they come to listen and are quiet, Thus I can work in a limited volume range and explore all… — Kenny Burrell
Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of… — Charles Caleb Colton
The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic. — William Godwin
His musical inspiration operates in a world uncluttered by conventional bar lines, conventional chord changes, and conventional ways of blowing or fingering a saxophone. Such… — Gunther Schuller
As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and… — Shelley Berman

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