Quotes About Subtle

An unheroic and unpublicized scene.

Nought is there in wealth that serves as bulwark 'gainst the subtle stealth Of Destiny and Doom.

There are many things not called poison which can kill a man,

Nice looking young lady, but the ordinary kind, not glamourous, no Hollywood touch about her.

Conversation, my friend. Conversation and again conversation! All the murderers I have ever come across enjoyed talking. In my opinion the strong silent man seldom commits a crime—and if he does it is simple, violent, and perfectly obvious. But our clever subtle murderer—he is so pleased with himself that sooner or later he says something unfortunate and trips himself up.

She is quiet, pretty in a washed-out way. She is, I think, devoted to her husband. She has something that Arlena Marshall did not have." "What is that?" "Brains.

quietly expensive.

America's genius lay in three things that are rather more subtle than invention: making innovations more user friendly; producing companies that can commercialize these innovations; and developing techniques for running these companies successfully.

I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive.

There is no geometry here; or rather there is a secret, infinitely non-Eucledian and subtle geometry, a secret harmony that the mind seizes before the intelligence.

I am very simple and minimalistic when it comes to dressing up in my personal life.

I don't tend to do much with my lips. My lips are naturally very pink, so if I add any more colour, it looks like I've been smacked in the mouth!

I sometimes got distracted easily and allowed my mind to wander when I needed to be focused. It's quite subtle, really, and just being aware of it helps.

Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.

tactile than olfactory—but I could discern nothing else about it.

THE SILENT, SUBTLE BUILDING FORCES OF MIND AND SPIRIT

When the mind that is subtle goes out through the brain and the sense-organs, the gross names and forms appear; when it stays in the Heart, the names and forms disappear.

The body which is matter says not 'I'. Eternal Awareness rises not nor sets. Betwixt the two, bound by the body, rises the thought of 'I'. This is the knot of matter and Awareness. This is bondage, jiva, subtle body, ego. This is samsara, this is the mind.

When I was a little kid, no matter what my parents told me, I would always argue - even if I agreed with them. And I've always been a show-off. As I've gotten older, I've found ways to be more subtle about it, but that's the way I am. I suppose that has something to do with why I write and direct.

People show surprise that I have interests outside my political career. There is subtle surprise, for example, that I would be interested in a recipe.

She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.

Javonen smiled - very slightly. Call it a down payment on a smile.

Slim quiet Negroes

But the real difficulties, the real arts of survival, seem to lie in more subtle realms. There, what's called for is a kind of resilience of the psyche, a readiness to deal with what comes next. These captives lay out in a stark and dramatic way what goes on in every life: the transitions whereby you cease to be who you were.