Subtle Quotes - Page 12

• My approach to parenting is that everything is open - everything. I'm not very good at covert, or subtle, and I've had to learn timing. I do blunder in a bit.

  Dawn French

  Timing, Blunders, Very Good

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• Falling in love is a subtle process, a connection sparked by attraction, tested by compatibility, and forged by memory.

  Jay Bell

  Falling In Love, Memories, Love Is

  Jay Bell (2017). “Something Like Summer: School Edition”, p.217, Jay Bell

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• Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with Highway, there was something very subtle, yet something very influential. I intended Highway to be the first film that I ever made. Didnt happen.

  Imtiaz Ali

  Firsts, Stories, Influential

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• Sensations of peace, joy, and love will enter into you. They will be very subtle at first. Then they will grow stronger.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Chakra Meditation, Joy

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• Your heart chakra is not in your physical body. It is in your subtle physical body, but it comes in contact with your physical body in this location.

  Frederick Lenz

  Heart, Buddhism, Chakra Meditation

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• The kundalini is raised or brought down. It can be done in several different ways, and as it moves to the different chakras or energy centers in the subtle physical body, it endows one with various powers.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Chakra Meditation

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• And just as I begin to believe that all is well, there is some subtle change in the light. The room takes its true shape. I fight to go back to that blissful ignorance, but it is too late. The dull pain of truth weights my soul, pulling it under. I am left hopelessly awake.

  Libba Bray

  Pain, Believe, Ignorance

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.515, Simon and Schuster

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• People show surprise that I have interests outside my political career. There is subtle surprise, for example, that I would be interested in a recipe.

  Lucille Roybal-Allard

  Careers, People, Political

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• What you are is the most subtle delicacy of being.

  John de Ruiter

  Delicacy

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• Colors do not exist separately and independently within nature; they are constantly shifting in response to subtle gradations of light. It is language that, magnificently, gives them clear shape.

  Kenya Hara

  Light, Color, Giving

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• Reading is the subtle and thorough sharing of the ideas and feelings by underhanded means. It is a gross invasion of Privacy and a direct violation of the Constitutions of the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Age. The Teaching of Reading is equally a crime against Privacy and Personhood. One to five years on each count.

  Walter Tevis

  Teaching, Reading, Mean

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• Physics is simple, but subtle.

  Paul Ehrenfest

  Simple, Physics

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• An extended stay in the wilderness inevitably directs one's attention outward as much as inward, and it is impossible to live off the land without developing both a subtle understanding of, and a strong emotional bond with, that land and all it holds.

  Jon Krakauer

  Strong, Emotional, Land

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into the Wild”, p.182, Pan Macmillan

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• Fox News never calls up Bobby Seale to articulate a stance in opposition to right-wing conservatives. To me, giving the New Black Panthers a platform on Fox is a subtle tactic to scare people.

  Bobby Seale

  Wings, People, Giving

  "Bobby Seale, Still Revolutionary". Black Star News Interview, www.blackstarnews.com. July 20, 2008.

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• Over the years, he [Everett Dirksen] developed a style of infinitely subtle fustian, whose effect can still be remotely approximated by sipping twelve-year-old bourbon, straight, while reading Dickens aloud, in a sort of sepulchral purr.

  Lance Morrow

  Reading, Government, Years

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• Feminists are forever discovering subtle new forms of sexism and then beating men around the head and shoulders with it. It is left to the rest of us to suffer the inevitable backlash this provokes among men. Besides, the feminists have the Federal Government behind them.

  Mona Charen

  Sex, Men, Feminist

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• The mathematical sciences wield their particular language made of digits and signs, no less subtle than any other.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Language, Mathematics, Made

  Jorge Luis Borges (1999). “Selected Non-Fictions”, Penguin Group USA

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• I think the best kind of comedy is the least self conscious. I think if you just sort of let the comedy happen without the elbow nudge, did you get it, did you get it. I love straight face comedy or subtle - relatively subtle comedy.

  Betty White

  Thinking, Self, Elbows

  Source: www.lenalamoray.com

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• For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a liberal arts education works in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life.

  Derek Bok

  Art, College, May

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• I think the success around any product is really about subtle insights. You need a great product and a bigger vision to execute against, but its really those small things that make the big difference.

  Chad Hurley

  Thinking, Differences, Vision

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• Film noir is not a genre. It is not defined, as are the western and gangster genres, by conventions of setting and conflict, but rather by the more subtle qualities of tone and mood. It is a film 'noir', as opposed to the possible variants of film gray or film off-white.

  Paul Schrader

  White, Quality, Noir

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• We are not merely tempered and schooled by failure but compelled, in however subtle a fashion, to become something other than we were.

  Anthony Lane

  Fashion, Schooled, Compelled

  "French Election: Hollandaise" by Anthony Lane, www.newyorker.com. May 7, 2012.

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• I’m honored that PBteen has seen me as someone who can help a broader audience understand the need to use recycled, repurposed and organic materials. Global conservation is a focal point of the capsule collection and it falls right in line with the change and direction I’m working towards, on a professional and personal basis. In collaborating with PBteen, we are creating a subtle and natural feel with this collection - something that has an authentic appeal for teens and their parents alike.

  Kelly Slater

  Fall, Creating, Parent

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• I think that Mary Poppins needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.

  P. L. Travers

  Thinking, Needs, Film

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• The book is what we have come to expect from Marion: challenging, subtle and nuanced analyses, dassling formulations, . . a provocative and original philosophical genius.

  John D. Caputo

  Book, Philosophical, Challenges

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