Quotes About Subtle

Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will.

The snow lay thin and apologetic over the world.

What makes a controlling parent so insidious is that the domination usually comes in the guise of concern.

observations about every client, but to remind yourself that, first of all, a good clinician is a good observer. Behind that statement lies a premise that nothing is irrelevant in understanding a client, especially at the beginning. With each successive meeting you will alter or enhance your understanding of the importance of some aspect of your first observations, but for now your radar should be scanning all the time, picking up the most obvious and the most subtle visual cues.

One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing.

One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing.

I think there is a compliment there somewhere, but it is very well disguised

a phenomenon that gave rise to my first critical insight into the subtle ruse of power: the prevailing law threatened one with trouble, all to keep one out of trouble. Hence, I concluded that trouble is inevitable and the task, how best to make it, what best way to be in it.

Anthony knew he was being fanciful, but when he gazed upon her face, he could not help thinking of the new dawn, of that exact moment when the sun was creeping over the horizon, painting the sky with its subtle palette of peaches and pinks.

The best director is the one you don't see.

I'm a whisper in water.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

As much as people like to get visited at home by strangers who tell them they're most likely going to Hell, we prefer less intrusive means of missionary work. Our ways are subtle.

All in all, Varya felt much the same as she had in the restaurant of the Hotel Royale when the men had caught the scent of blood and run wild, entirely forgetting that she even existed - yet another proof that by his very nature man was closer to the animal world than woman, that the feral principle was more pronounced in man, and therefore the true variety of Homo Sapiens was indeed woman, the more advanced, subtle and complex being.

This is the house of freedom and it should constantly remind us how subtle and sensitive the barrier is between freedom and its opposite, totalitarianism."3

Kumiko and I felt something for each other from the beginning. It was not one of those strong, impulsive feelings that can hit two people like an electric shock when they first meet, but something quieter and gentler, like two tiny lights traveling in tandem through a vast darkness and drawing imperceptibly closer to each other as they go. As our meetings grew more frequent, I felt not so much that I had met someone new as that I had chanced upon a dear old friend.

Besides being the world the kind of sadness that can not be expressed in tears. You can not explain it to anyone. Unable to take any shape, settles quietly in the bottom of the heart as snow during the windless night.

A smile like a small wisp of smoke drifting quietly skyward on a windless day.

I was born an outcast in an ancient and subtle way; I was conceived out of some grief or darkness and would be made to pay a price for it.

Tarjei Vesaas has written the best Norwegian novel ever, 'The Birds' - it is absolutely wonderful: the prose is so simple and so subtle, and the story is so moving that it would have been counted amongst the great classics from the last century if it had been written in one of the major languages.

Our films have to entertain without the viewer being guided to a humdrum set of do's and don't's. At the same time, as a filmmaker, my films should evoke some feelings, some thoughts in their minds. That's the purpose of cinema. It has to be a learning experience without advocating rights or wrongs in a subtle manner.

Yeah, you know, you like it to come on like gangbusters, but you get into passages that are very interesting and subtle, and sometimes your original intent changes quite a bit.

Stand-up comedy is a lot about amplifying emotions and situations; movie acting has a lot to do with mellowing things down and making them subtle. The transition was almost terrifying because of the magnitude of change.

consciousness, at its subtlest level, continues without the body and goes through the series of states called "bardos.