Subtly Quotes

85 Subtly quotes by 79 unique authors

You maintain hope for humanity as an infinite skeptic of gossip and slander. In all mankind's desires for entertainment and exaggeration and sensationalism, when it… — Criss Jami
The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a… — Aldous Huxley
In our usual mind state, we are continually activating the process that in Buddhist terminology is known as 'bhava,' which literally means 'becoming.' In this… — Sharon Salzberg
The decentralized nature of online conversations often makes it easier to manipulate public opinion, both domestically and globally. Regimes that once relied on centralized systems… — Evgeny Morozov
All the worse for the undeniable talent which hides the evil so subtly and makes the danger so delightful. — Louisa May Alcott
The ear participates, and helps arrange marriages; the eye has already made love with what it sees. The eye knows pleasure, delights in the body's… — Unknown Author
They were connoisseurs of boredom. They savoured the various bouquets of the subtly differentiated boredoms which rose from the long, wasted hours at the dead… — Angela Carter
Oh, they never lie. They dissemble, evade, prevaricate, confound, confuse, distract, obscure, subtly misrepresent and willfully misunderstand with what often appears to be a positively… — Iain Banks
Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present. — Mario Vargas Llosa
The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul. — E. M. Forster
I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind, Am urged by your propinquity to find Your person… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before… — Arthur Conan Doyle
But why do you want to talk to me?' He is going to say: 'Because you look so kind,' or 'Because you look so beautiful… — Jean Rhys
Most dreams die a slow death. They're conceived in a moment of passion, with the prospect of endless possibility, but often languish and are not… — Dean Karnazes
As women glide from their twenties to thirties, Shazzer argues, the balance of power subtly shifts. Even the most outrageous minxes lose their nerve, wrestling… — Helen Fielding
Laney held up a hand. "I checked it out. He went there on scholarship and paid the rest with student loans. And he's good looking,… — Julie James
It was as if thousands and thousands of little roots and threads of consciousness in him and her had grown together into a tangled mass,… — D. H. Lawrence
Once we're able to see this world as an illusion and a phantasm, then we can see everything that happens to us as a dream,… — Fernando Pessoa
Jones looks like he wants to slug me, which is only subtly different from his usual way of looking at me like I'm a slug. — Holly Black
Wouldn't you be mad if I told you to give up on someone you cared about? Just... hand her over to someone who doesn't even… — Rachel Vincent
Right now, scientists are in exactly the same position as Renaissance painters, commissioned to make the portrait the patron wants done, And if they are… — Michael Crichton
I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all--Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
And just like that, something inside shifted very subtly, so that all the empty spaces in him suddenly disappeared, so that his breath timed to… — Jodi Picoult
She does not want to feel even the faintest temptation to call his mobile number, as she had done obsessively for the first year after… — Jojo Moyes
Revelations are conveyed in a variety of ways, including, for example, dreams, visions, conversations with heavenly messengers, and inspiration. Some revelations are received immediately and… — David A. Bednar

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