Subtleties Quotes
54 quotes by 52 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The best designs of all are organic, evolving from the subtleties of the ground they inhabit.
— Tom Doak
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.
— William Godwin
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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
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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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