Quotes About Subtle

No decision or action is made without a thought, and a thought , no matter how subtle, is generated out of the past. All thoughts and actions arise out of predisposing influences of myriad sorts; and the self is manufactured out of thoughts.

Beauty exists where you least expect to find it.

Be subtle! be subtle! and use your spies for every kind of business.

Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious. What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business.

You must have a visual sense if you want to be a photographer. It is a very subtle thing, this visual business.

They say tedium is a sickness that afflicts the inert, or only attacks those who have nothing to do. However, this affliction of the soul is subtles than that: it attacks those with a predisposition towards it and is less lenient on those who work or pretend to work (which comes to the same thing anyway) than on the truely inert.

Spirits have more possibilities for nearly everything than do bodies—for example, more pleasures and pains, and more subtle and profound pleasures and pains, than bodies.

You could of heard a spider sip a breath.

La serpiente era más sutil que cualquier animal del campo creado por Dios. Génesis

and coming from the walls all around was a slight humming sound, almost too low to hear, the sort of sound you had to get used to or go mad.

The overriding sense of Tokyo...is that it is a city devoted to the new, sped up in a subtle but profound way: a postmodern science-fiction story set ten minutes in the future.

in the subtle way of the best bullies Judy and Aimee strove to freeze me out of all important decisions while simultaneously ensuring that nothing they said or did could be explicitly interpreted as punishment or retribution.

I work through the actors, and the more successful I am, the less my work is apparent.

The widow employed her woman's malice to devise a system of covert persecution.

Overuse at best is needless clutter; at worst, it creates the impression that the characters are overacting, emoting like silent film stars. Still, an adverb can be exactly what a sentence needs. They can add important intonation to dialogue, or subtly convey information.

There came a point when if a conspiracy was that powerful and subtle it became pointless to worry about it.

There's an insult buried in there somewhere, but I can't quite see it.

Perhaps we have been dependent too long on language and thought, and need to reawaken our inherent sense of the subtle vibration of Energy-Consciousness. All you have to do is unblock the blocked parts and awaken the sleeping parts of your being to access it.

As for her perfume, it was the kind you only noticed after she'd left a room, not while she was still in it. Even then you didn't realize it was perfume, you only wondered what had made you think of her just then.

How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that marks a turning point.

The difference between force and persuation is a subtile one not to be drawn by formulas, by force, by science, or textbooks but by men skilled in the art of ruling

To achieve excellence, we must also consider and work with what is not apparent, with what cannot be seen. We must journey into the complex world of subtle energies.

That was *not* a joke, she said in mock disapproval. So you have no business to laugh. It is very sad when people don't see your jokes - and lots of people can't, for the life of them, see mine. My jokes are either very subtle or very poor - I can't think which it can be.

It was nothing, really; just a straw in the wind! But a straw in the wind shows which way the wind is blowing