Browsing Topic Best Subtle Quotes

None of us got to where we are alone. Whether the assistance we received was obvious or subtle, acknowledging someone’s help is a big part of understanding the importance of saying thank you.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Women are complex and subtle. Men are simple and direct.

The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.

Men like women who know how to be subtle.

It is a wonderful advantage to a man, in every pursuite or avocation, to secure an adviser in a sensible woman. In woman there is at once a subtle delicacy of tact, and a plain soundness of judgement, which are rarely combined to an equal degree in man. A woman, if she be really your friend, will have a sensitive regard for your character, honor, repute. She will seldom counsel you to do a shabby thing: for a woman friend always desires to be proud of you.

Your very success is what’s going to destroy you. The survival mechanism that you’ve developed is the very thing which will cause the downfall of your subtle physical body.

Healing does not come through intense affirmation of divinity, or by simply pouring out love and the expression of a vague mysticism.It comes through mastering an exact science of contact, impression, of invocation plus an understanding of the subtle apparatus of the etheric vehicle.

The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It’s subtle and hard to perceive. It’s like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can’t tell others.

Credit is a matter so subtle in its essence, that, as it may be obtained almost without reason, so, without reason, may it be made to melt away.

How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.

You have to be taught to be second class; you’re not born that way. But the slanting process is so subtle that you frequently don’t realize how you’re being slanted until very late in the game.

On the internet nobody can hear you being subtle.

If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it’s a dead standard, you are going to play very differently. It depends on the music.

The subtle performances of the leads, the remarkable Irrfan Khan and the engaging Nimrat Kaur, make ‘The Lunchbox’ a pleasure to watch.

Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena.

A history that should pursue all the subtle threads from end to end might be eminently valuable, but not as a tribute to peace and conciliation.

Science proceeds by successive answers to questions more and more subtle, coming nearer and nearer to the very essence of phenomena.

If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes later.

Nought is there in wealth That serves as bulwark ‘gainst the subtle stealth Of Destiny and Doom.

The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

I talk about Breaking Bad being the most brilliant show ever, and even minor characters have subtle nuances and are fully drawn.

I set myself up for a lot of trouble by wanting to tell a story that is fairly earnest and emotional and expressive, but to do it in the most subtle, realistic way.

Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.

I was the most subtle person in the world.

Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle – more like music and less like sculpture – and above all it promises color. If only it keeps this promise.

Nothing is harder to see into thanpeoples nature. The sage looks at subtle phenomena and listens tosmall voices. This harmonizes the outside with the inside and the inside with the outside.

General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise.

Fear is the most subtle and destructive of all human diseases.

Little by little, in subtle ways, you get programmed. You create beliefs that get cemented in your personality. You don’t realize you are doing this, but you are. Your core, foundational beliefs about relationships, money, and success will all be programmed into you by the time you are 10 years old.

Dalai Lama is taking a subtle and nuanced view of politics and he is thinking in terms of events well beyond our lifetime.

It’s a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them.

Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than of lust.

Broadway has the most savvy audience anywhere. They see everything and they know their theater. As sophisticated and subtle as you think you can be, the houses you get here will want something finer.