Quotes About Subtle

the devil had long nimble fingers.

DAWN UNLOCKED THE MORNING IN INCREMENTS OF GRAY.

no one can resist what they can't detect".

It's an invasion a-and I resent It.' 'A strange remark from a woman,' there was a caustic sting in his voice. 'It is my experience that your sex likes this invasion, as you call it. It is a subtle intrusion they can allow without risking their reputations.

The inner life has its soft and gentle beauty; an abstract formlessness as well as a subtle charm. I often consider myself as a figure in a foggy painting: faltering lines, insecure distances, and a merging of greys and blacks. An emotion or a mood—a mere wisp of color—is shaded off and made to spread until it becomes one with all that surrounds it.

la novela es como una telaraña ligada muy sutilmente, pero al fin y al cabo ligada a la vida por los cuatro costados.

A thread of subtle pain, Tugged at by playful death, released again But always present, ran through me.

The spirit of the valley never dies.It is called the subtle and profound female.The gate of the subtle and profound femaleIs the root of Heaven and Earth.It is continuous, and seems to be always existing.Use it and you will never wear it out.

We look at it [Tao] and do not see it;Its name is The Invisible.We listen to it and do not hear it;Its name is The Inaudible.We touch it and do not find it;Its name is The Subtle [formless].

He had a colorless translucence about him that made him seem as if he were in the earliest stages of progressive invisibility.

Not once has the instructor talked about parenting after the baby is born. Instead, we fetishize labor. We focus on it to the exclusion of each other, our children, our futures. Is this because it can be taught, and parenting can't? Because, Americans to the bitter end, we love a sport, grow bored by things more subtle?

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

There is no time like the very early morning for subtle and mysterious deeds.

Bobby Kennedy chose the members of the squad himself. He gave the squad a very limited job to do and gave the squad a very subtle name: "The Get Hoffa Squad." Everything, and I mean everything, came as a result of that.

Trifles make the sum of life.

Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

Nudge, nudge, wink, wink. Know what I mean?

I prefer to regard a dessert as I would imagine the perfect woman: subtle, a little bittersweet, not blowsy and extrovert. Delicately made up, not highly rouged. Holding back, not exposing everything and, of course, with a flavor that lasts.

That's the thing about being a janitor, or maid, any type of custodian. You glide unseen, like a fish underwater.

though they didn't exactly draw their skirts aside they managed to convey their message.

He was, and he knew it, very quietly in love with the little Manchu. His love demanded nothing, not even reply; it was a tribute of the mind, to which his senses added only a flavor.

skinny as horsehair in a glass of milk

We are at war - undeclared and of such a subtle nature that few have noticed - but war nevertheless. It is a cyberwar on many fronts, in which it is difficult to identify who is friend and who is foe. I will predict now, as unintelligible as it may seem, that Anonymous will turn out to be more friend than foe.