Quotes About Subtle

Who abdicated ambush And went the way of dusk, And now, against his subtle name, There stands an asterisk As confident of him as we; Impregnable we are – The whole of Immortality Secreted in a star.

By far the larger number of the dreams occurred towards dawn; sometimes even, after sunrise, during a "second sleep." A condition of fasting, united, possibly, with some subtle magnetic or other atmospheric state, seems therefore to be that most open to impressions of the kind.

The subtle and deadly change of heart that might occur in you would be involved with the realization that a civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked, but only that they be spineless.

there is no end to the cancerous seeds of treason that well-placed movie Reds could plant—subtle satires and attacks on America, subliminally planted so that the public and right-thinking movie people would have no idea they were being brainwashed.

While problems in a film are fairly easy to identify, the sources of those problems are often extraordinarily difficult to assess. A mystifying plot twist or a less-than-credible change of heart in our main character is often caused by subtle underlying issues elsewhere in the story.

The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.

It's not easy to write an understated score over a loud one.

I'm understated in my approach.

I don't believe in being loud. I find that stupid. Understated things work much better.

Human intelligence is a marvelous, subtle, and poorly understood phenomenon. There is no danger of duplicating it anytime soon.

With so many delicious varieties and flavors ranging from subtle to bold, Keebler and Carr's crackers are an unexpectedly genius way to celebrate leftovers and serve up one-of-a-kind recipes.

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

The deepest of powers are often the most subtle. Something that most fail to realize... ?

I'm an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.

Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad.

The mind can cook up very subtle syndromes to throw at our bodies.

Thou only givest these gifts to man, and thou hast the keys of Paradise, O just, subtle, and mighty opium!

Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!

I'm nearly see-through. Like a jellyfish.

I like the idea of trying to influence society by taking a brief, then maybe subtly changing it or looking at it in a new way to see what interesting things can emerge.

there was no power like a sharp and subtle mind weaving others' hopes and fears and hungers into a dream they wanted to hear. Always know what they want to hear—not just what everyone knew they wanted to hear but what they didn't even dare name to themselves. Show them the pattern. Give them permission to do what they wanted all along

As I review the events of my past life I realize how subtle are the influences that shape our destinies.

A soft light's got its own appeal.

What the devil's wrong with devious? Devious gets the job done, doesn't it?