Quotes About Subtlety

The brains are stained with ink The doctors dispute in a den of thieves The businessmen fast hands slow thoughts officiate in the graveyard The dialecticians exalt the subtlety of the rope

KusursuzluÄŸu küçük ÅŸeyler oluÅŸturur; ama kusursuzluk küçük bir ÅŸey deÄŸildir.

Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; morals grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What (women) like is to be a man's last romance.

With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and the sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

Raramente o mal se mostra de imediato. A princípio, é pouco mais que um sussurro. Um olhar. Uma traição. Mas logo cresce e cria raízes, mesmo que imperceptível, despercebido.

I find nothing in the Gospel of Thomas that contradicts any of Jesus's teachings in the canonical gospels. Rather, it rounds them out metaphysically and creates a newfound sense of awe as we see just how original and subtle his understanding really is. He is the first truly integral teacher to appear on this planet. As we take a fresh look at these teachings at once familiar and strange, we're catapulted forward again along a path that rings with the power of truth.

White isn't just a neutral color. It is so pure and quiet. Bold and conspicuous and yet so inconspicuous as well.

Among them was a calligraphy class that appealed to him after he saw posters on campus that were beautifully drawn. "I learned about serif and sans serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

Quiet cunning bested boastful brawn

The Tao advises making yourself as invisible as possible if you truly wish to be an effective leader.

There is as much meaning in a wink as a word.

To say more is to say less.

Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.

Jess falls asleep with her head against Darcy's shoulder, and I see Mr. Hawthorne waggle his eyebrows at Mrs. Hawthorne, who smiles over at Mrs. Delaney. I guess I'm not the only one who's noticed what's going on.

El mayor poder es el que consigue que se haga lo que pretende sin que nadie se dé cuenta.

This needed to be handled with finesse, but you have all the finesse of the Hulk on meth.

The first principle concerns the power and subtlety of situational influences. The second involves the importance of people's subjective interpretations of the situation. The third speaks to the necessity of understanding both individual psyches and social groups as tension systems or energy "fields" characterized by an equilibrium between impelling and restraining forces.

Announcing your death should be like announcing that you are a lunar moth: It must be done quietly or it will not be believed.

A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Sus modales eran refinados y su comportamiento ni excesivamente tímido ni afectadamente franco, con lo cual resultaba alegre, bonita y atractiva, sin llamar la atención de cuantos hombres la miraban y (mi parte favorita) sin hacer vehementes demostraciones de contrariedad o de placer cada vez que se presentaba la ocasión de manifestar cualquiera de estos sentimientos. Porque qué lindo es cuando una mujer no es sobreactuada.

He then went away, and Miss Bingley was left to all the satisfaction of having forced him to say what gave no one any pain but herself.

Ya see, Marty, sometimes love comes sorta stealin' up on ya gradual like, not shoutin' bold words or wavin' bright flags. Ya ain't even aware it's a growin' an' growin' an' gettin' stronger

Nobody pays attention to the way a person's shirt folds around his shoulder when they sit down, but if that shirt folded in an unusual way, you'd notice it.