Quotes About Subtle

The funny thing about Hell is that we assume it's obvious. Fire, brimstone. We'll be plunged into it by some horrific event in our lives. But the truth is, Hell can be as subtle as Heaven. He looked around. Sometimes we don't recognize we've wandered into Hell until it's too late.

How intimating became intimidating. It was subtle, and all the more powerful for it.

if you were quiet and blended into the background, you were less likely to make waves

True horror is all the more potent for being implicit.

Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.

Resistance is the subtlest form of attachment.

I'm not big on lip color, but I like to have a little something.

I'm just not a loud person. I don't like to showboat. I'm not rowdy.

I am a quiet person, not too loud or dramatic.

I'm much more low-key than the characters I've played.

I'm very low-key.

I'm hardly macho. I present myself as very unnoticeable.

I always keep my makeup really simple.

endings that are muted, but which echo longer in the memory than louder, more explosive denouements.

There is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't like truth at all because it carries responsibility.

In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way. I

I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.

But where Dr. Whittaker gave his words and phrases special emphasis and personal coloring, as though they were matters which required argument and persuasion, Father Jackson spoke almost wholly without emphasis and with only the subtlest coloring, as if the personal emotion, the coloring, were cast against the words from a distance, like echoes.

Self is ingenious, crooked, and, governed by subtle and snaky desire, admits of endless turnings and qualifications, and the deluded worshippers of self vainly imagine that they can gratify every worldly desire, and at the same time possess the Truth

Primo Levi added that the critical point can be reached "not just through the terror of police intimidation, but by denying and distorting information, by undermining systems of justice, by paralyzing the education system, and by spreading in a myriad subtle ways nostalgia for a world where order reigned.

It was a sound like someone trying not to make a sound.

The air is all softness.

tacit way in which feeling becomes stronger than thought

The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.