Quotes About Subdued

Parties are not my thing; I keep it low-key.

etiolated skin.' Anselm blew smoke.

I don't really shout that much.

I remember that Karl Marx line about religion being the opium of the people—his idea that the elites keep the masses subdued with illusory happiness.

emasculated.

I'm pretty bland. I'm not a big decorator.

undemonstrative in a burly fat-pig style

Empty canvas. In appearance - really empty, silent, indifferent. Stunned, almost. In effect - full of tensions, with thousand subdued voices, heavy with expectations. A little frightened because it may be violated

It was no longer gay

It was the kind of conversation you could only hold in whispers.

My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

Definition of the Word Delicate, Since Defining Delicacy Isn't Enough for Understanding Delicacy 1. Subtle and subdued. A delicate flavor. 2. Showing fragility. Delicate crystal. 3. Requiring sensitive or careful handling. Delicate situation. 4. Characterized by subtle judgment, deftness. Delicate chess maneuvers.

God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness which charms and wins it.

Now, as he reviewed his past, he saw into what a deep rut he had sunk. The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else... There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level, and surveys the long windings of destiny.

But the idealist subdued to vulgar necessities must employ vulgar minds to draw the inferences to which he cannot stoop

I must therefore depend on the Greeks, whose prejudices, in some degree, are subdued by their distress.

Everyone's getting very excited, but in that educated way of not showing it.

I'm quite subdued, believe it or not. I switch it on for the camera.

My nature is subdu'dTo what it works in, like the dyer's hand.

And a Northerner who had just returned from six months in South Carolina and Georgia informed Thaddeus Stevens in February 1866 that "the spirit which actuated the traitors . . . during the late rebellion is only subdued and allows itself to be nourished by leniency.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Outward calm prevailed in the room, subdued voices, the tranquillity of fancy-work, and the peace of albums; yet Anna could not avoid a chilled impression, a feeling as though each person present were distrustful of the others, and more or less on the defensive.

The studies that had fascinated his mind in earlier youth returned with the power that had subdued his mind in boyhood.