Quotes About Subtle

The difference, as they say, is in the details—the often subtle details of your daily interactions.

Unfortunately, Da Vinci was a prankster who often amused himself by quietly gnawing at the hand that fed him. He incorporated in may of his Christian paintings hidden symbolism that was anything but Christian - tributes to his own beliefs and a subtle thumbing of his nose at the Church.

him to shoot anyone who even looked cross-eyed at him. "Web English is such a subtle tongue," he said. "That phrase is older than the Web," I said. "Just do it.

The biological influence passing from person to person suggests a new dimension of a life well lived: conducting ourselves in ways that are beneficial even at this subtle level for those with whom we connect.

The subtle sauce of malice is often indulged in by maidens of uncertain age, over their tea.

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

He was looking at her from behind the smiling that wasn't smiling but was something you were not supposed to see beyond.

Armitage smiled, a smile that meant as much as the twitch of some insect's antenna.

thin and elegant as a mantis

It's an ingenious tactic. What the therapist is trying to demonstrate, in a subtle way, is that the client is capable of solving her own problem.

The linkages between emotion and behavior can be more subtle, though. For instance, a secondary effect of being angry, which was recently discovered by researchers, is that we become more certain of our judgments. When we're angry, we know we're right, as anyone who has been in a relationship can attest.

The Principle of Internal Conductivity states that the conductivity of the body and the subtle bodies depends on the psychological attitude of the person receiving the projected energy. Super internal conductivity is called faith.

he never crossed any lines. He was a subtle and old-fashioned sexist; he didn't know how to take women seriously but they continued to delight him. And

There was a brass water pitcher set up in the center of the table, and a couple of times I found myself smiling at my reflection in the side of it, but stopped just before anyone caught me. The smile was a chinchilla fur kind of smile. Look what I got you, it seemed to say. And I can get you more.

when I heard whispering. It was as soft as snowfall, but it took over all my hearing.

Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.

Culture feeds on the sap of economics, and a material surplus is necessary, so that culture may grow, develop and become subtle.

Here the destruction is subtle, and there the body is torn. Here the breaking is perceived, and there the dead unaware carry their putrid remains. All trade in filth, carry their filth one to another, all walk the streets as though the ground did not recoil, all stretch their necks to bite the air, as though the breath had not withdrawn. The seed bursts without a blessing, and the harvest is gathered as if it were food.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Quentin did a magic trick. Nobody noticed.

Labyrinths were old sorcery, and subtle: good for recharging one's magical resources when they were running low.

Most of the travelers, liars, thieves, and shameless personalities of the twentieth century are not tricksters at all, then. Their disruptions are not subtle enough, or pitched at a high enough level. Trickster isn't a run-of-themill liar and thief. When he lies and steals, it isn't so much to get away with something or get rich as to disturb the established categories of truth and property and, by so doing, open the road to possible new worlds.

Hell of simulation, which is no longer one of torture, but of subtle, maleficent, elusive twisting of meaning...

The sudden cancellation of a planned event or of some decision or other is one of those subtle pleasures with which chance occasionally blesses us.