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Quotes About Subtle

Nature is subtle and complex.
~ Marlene van Niekerk
I used a light hand with my makeup because I wanted to look good without looking like a good time.
~ Unknown
I was unimpressed, having heard ART's "villain of a long-running mythic adventure serial" voice before, but all the humans got quiet. Amena shifted uncertainly and looked at me. Then Ratthi whispered, "Was that a subtle threat?" I said, "No. It wasn't subtle.
~ Martha Wells
it is (often) the quiet gesture which carries the most significance - the one which suddenly directs the symphony.
~ Mary Anne Radmacher
Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance, 'Tis kept by art.
~ John Donne
A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.
~ Heraclitus of Ephesus
Everything had a subdued and neutral tint; life at its best was calm and colourless, like a grey sunless day in early autumn, serene but joyless.
~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Now love is so very subtle an essence, such an indefinable metaphysical marvel, that its due force, though very cruelly felt by the sufferer himself, is never clearly understood by those who look on at his torments and wonder why he takes the common fever so badly.
~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Taste like pillows.
~ Unknown
When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.
~ Matt Groening
Maybe life is part of a greater series of interconnections, subtlely guided by an underlying transtemporal panpsychic awareness. Stranger still, we may be just scintillating illusions, extrapolated from deeper realities.
~ Unknown
After defeating the Axis powers in the Second World War with its military and industrial might, the United States then set about waging and winning a far more subtle war against the whole world: a war of cultural superiority.
~ Matthew Reilly
Power is of the order of the tacit.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
A discovery is like falling in love and reaching the top of a mountain after a hard climb all in one, an ecstasy not induced by drugs but by the revelation of a face of nature that no one has seen before and that often turns out to be more subtle and wonderful than anyone had imagined.
~ Max F. Perutz
The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again
~ Maxine Hong Kingston
Tota novel·la és convencional. La gràcia consisteix a fer que no ho sembli.
~ Unknown
Out of character to be so obvious. You need to be more subtle. Locate a partially blocked artery in his brain, then just pinch it off. Bang, he's down and it's over." - Mara Jade Skywalker
~ Michael A. Stackpole
The most subtle bugs that we can inject are bugs related to inheritance.
~ Unknown
They will presume that you are like so many others, an academic infected with just the right amount of subtle ambition and a mild disaffection for orthodoxy—without falling outright into heresy. A
~ Unknown
Knight felt his chest clench with melancholy. How had his life come to this? He occasionally missed his family. 'I suppose a more subtle answer would be, I missed some of my family to a certain degree,' he allowed.
~ Michael Finkel
One recalls the literary writer who, after grasping a story of a Mars voyage as a metaphor for isolation and the precariousness of relationships, realized that at a deeper, more subtle level it might even be a story about an actual trip to Mars!
~ Michael Flynn
use a grater to add my daily quarter inch into whatever I may be cooking (or right onto a cooked sweet potato), or I throw a raw slice into a smoothie. You probably won't even taste it. Fresh turmeric has a much more subtle flavor than dried, so it may be an especially good option for those who don't like turmeric's taste.
~ Michael Greger
L'intelligence, cette vertu sublime que définit l'art de lier ce qui, a priori, et pour la plupart, passe pour délié.
~ Michel Onfray
No vision can grasp Him, but His Grasp is over all vision. He is the Most Subtle and Courteous, Well-Acquainted with all things.
~ Unknown