Subtly Quotes
85 quotes by 79 authors
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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
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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
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I'll cry anywhere because I can do it quite subtly. Walking, that's a good time to have a cry.
— Sharon Horgan
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When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.
— Willie Morris
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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
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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
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Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.
— Ben Okri
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Waiting for Godot . . . has achieved a theoretical impossibility—a play in which nothing happens, that yet keeps the audience glued to their seats.…
— Vivian Mercier
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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