Subtly Quotes

85 quotes by 79 authors

Somewhere along the way we have subtly and tragically taken the costly command of Christ to go, baptize, and teach all nations and mutated it… — David Platt
Strive each day to make your life purer, richer, and more luminous. You will subtly and imperceptibly lead all of creation heavenward. — Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
I'll cry anywhere because I can do it quite subtly. Walking, that's a good time to have a cry. — Sharon Horgan
When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it. — Willie Morris
The language itself, whether you speak it or not, whether you love it or hate it, is like some bewitchment or seduction from the past,… — Jan Morris
I know, indeed, of nothing more subtly satisfying and cheering than a knowledge of the real good will and appreciation of others. Such happiness does… — William Dean Howells
Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world. — Ben Okri
Waiting for Godot . . . has achieved a theoretical impossibilityâ€”a play in which nothing happens, that yet keeps the audience glued to their seats.… — Vivian Mercier
Perfume puts the finishing touch to elegance - a detail that subtly underscores the look, an invisible extra that completes a man and a woman's… — Gianni Versace
Walking on the land or digging in the fine soil I am intensely aware that time quivers slightly, changes occurring in imperceptible and minute ways,… — Annie Proulx
Mom is losing, no doubt, because our vegetables have come to lack two features of interest: nutrition and flavor. Storage and transport take predictable tolls… — Barbara Kingsolver
A detective novel should contain no long descriptive passages, no literary dallying with side-issues, no subtly worked-out character analyses, no 'atmospheric' preoccupations. Such matters have… — S. S. Van Dine
and how we are all preparing for that abrupt waking, and that calling, and that moment we have to say yes, except it will not… — David Whyte
Grace is not a strange, magic substance which is subtly filtered into our souls to act as a kind of spiritual penicillin. Grace is unity,… — Thomas Merton
It is easy to forget how mysterious and mighty stories are. They do their work in silence, invisibly. They work with all the internal materials… — Ben Okri
In Vineyard Haven, on Martha's Vineyard, mostly I love the soft collision here of harbor and shore, the subtly haunting briny quality that all small… — William Styron
Lying damages others. Lying subtly permits us to destroy ourselves as we are caught in the snare and shatter our own self-image and credibility. Freedom… — Marvin J. Ashton
The human mind moves always forward, alters its viewpoint and enlarges its thought substance, and the effect of these changes is to render past systems… — Sri Aurobindo
When the masters of industry pay such sums for a newspaper, they buy not merely the building and the presses and the name; they buy… — Upton Sinclair
Sweetly and subtly perfumed...so soft it is best eaten with a spoon, a tenderness more appealing to gourmets than to those who have to pick,… — Waverley Root

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