Subtle Quotes - Page 39

• Artists may here have a more subtle scent: they know only too well that it is precisely when they cease to act 'voluntarily' and do everything of necessity that their feeling of freedom, subtlety, fullness of power, creative placing, disposing, shaping reaches its height - in short, that necessity and 'freedom of will' are then one in them.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Artist, Creative, Feelings

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1973). “Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future”, Penguin Classics

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• I remember thinking cocaine was subtle until I noticed I'd been awake for three weeks and didn't know any of the naked people passed out around me.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Thinking, People, Naked

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.366, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

  George Eliot

  Mind, Well Known, Conviction

  GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.300

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• Subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

  George Eliot

  Coarse, Impression, Mediums

  GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.300

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• Perfect definition of atheist dogma. Your mind has been subjected to subtle mental conditioning year after year. Now the atheist lie has become the truth to you. A lie that can be blown away with the real truth. It just takes time to unwind the atheist mental conditioning. The truth is out there. Outside of atheist dogma lies the truth!

  Vladimir Lenin

  Atheist, Real, Lying

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• The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit. It is inimical to the dictates of a sound policy. It is in violation of the traditions of America.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Spiritual, Moral Fiber, Welfare Programs

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• I like bringing little subtle complexities to a character. It's all about the subtext. No one can really describe or fully know another human being, even if they get a hook on them. It's more about instinctively knowing whether you like somebody or not.

  Ray Stevenson

  Character, Knowing, Hook

  Source: collider.com

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• Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle.

  Russell Kirk

  Civilization, Intellectual, Together

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• It is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realise the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.

  Herman Melville

  Whales, Silent, Caught

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.268

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• The devil is so subtle that he dominates man and persuades him at the same time that he is not being dominated.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Men, Devil

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• I think in my twenties I tended to think of all people as sort of more or less alike. In now think that people are really different in all these subtle ways that are very important.

  Peter Thiel

  Thinking, People, Important

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• Walden - all his books, indeed - are packed with subtle, conflicting, and very fruitful discoveries. They are not written to prove something in the end. They are written as the Indians turn down twigs to mark their path through the forest. He cuts his way through life as if no one had ever taken that road before, leaving these signs for those who come after, should they care to see which way he went.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Taken, Cutting

  Virginia Woolf, Andrew McNeillie (1986). “The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1912-1918”, Harcourt

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• There is an age-old proverb that really does hold true in every area of life - in relations between nations and right down to the most subtle and sophisticated or must unstable and unsophisticated relations between lovers - and it is this: they took "kindness" for "weakness."

  Sylvester Stallone

  Kindness, Age, Weakness

  "New Again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1985.

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• No one's life is totally morbid. Even on a subtle scale there's little flashes of enlightenment and of happiness and joy.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Joy, Enlightenment, Littles

  "New again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 2, 2015.

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• I've always loved subtle acting, and that's what I got to do.

  Kay Panabaker

  Acting

  Source: collider.com

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• The women are very important too, we can't have a revolution that doesn't involve and liberate women. It's so subtle the way you're taught male superiority.

  John Lennon

  Important, Males, Way

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• As we build systems that are more and more complex, we make more and more subtle but very high-impact mistakes. As we use computers for more things and as we build more complex systems, this problem of unreliability and insecurity is actually getting worse, with no real sign of abating anytime soon.

  Matt Blaze

  Real, Mistake, Impact

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Clipper took a relatively simple problem, encryption between two phones, and turned it into a much more complex problem, encryption between two phones but that can be decrypted by the government under certain conditions and, by making the problem that complicated, that made it very easy for subtle flaws to slip by unnoticed. I think it demonstrated that this problem is not just a tough public policy problem, but it's also a tough technical problem.

  Matt Blaze

  Simple, Thinking, Phones

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Vengeful as nature herself, she loves her children only in order to devour them better and if she herself rips her own veils of self-deceit, Mother perceives in herself untold abysses of cruelty as subtle as it is refined.

  Angela Carter

  Mother, Children, Rip

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• Facebook, when it began, like Google, was very resistant to advertising. They knew, like all - Mark Zuckerberg, like all good engineers, knew that advertising makes the product worse. But, you know, over time, they've been forced to increase the advertising load more and more and more. And the way they advertise is they - it's subtle but they know everything, you know, about everybody on the site.

  Tim Wu

  Zuckerberg, Google, Way

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I love doing meta-humor, as long as it doesn't become too distracting and it's subtle.

  Marc Guggenheim

  Long, Doing Me

  Source: collider.com

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• My people have very subtle slang, inflections and ways of saying things that has little to do with words. If you're from the same place, you'll feel the jargon and know exactly what's happening. Same with any neighborhood cat. What he sees and hears and feels and lives makes him what he is. That's what blues is.

  Nina Simone

  Cat, People, Jargon

  Source: boscarol.com

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• It makes me think about how you hear these young people say, "I see you, man." Or even if you go and watch some basketball game over the summer and the announcer goes, "I see you," and you see that player smile. You know what I mean? That thing of just being recognized, especially when you do a little subtle thing. I don't know.

  Paul Beatty

  Basketball, Summer, Mean

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In the age of the camera phone it's a bit weird when you're sitting having dinner in a restaurant and people think they're being very subtle taking a photo while in fact they're being very obvious. When you're in a middle of a mouthful with friends or family and people come up asking for a photograph, that's when you want to say, 'Actually, I'm going to say no; I'd like to finish my meal. This is my time.'

  Hugh Bonneville

  Thinking, Phones, People

  Source: www.flavourmag.co.uk

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• Something happens in the middle when women are in their 30s, and we can start with an array of things that happen, whether it is - you hope this doesn't exist any longer - but overt discrimination; whether it's subtle gender discrimination, which absolutely does exist among men and women; whether it's the fact that it gets hard to juggle at that point children, housework, etc. But people still have to go home and cook the dinner and clean the dishes and get the beds made and so on. And so, for a whole bunch of reasons, women tend to fall out in their 30s still today.

  Sallie Krawcheck

  Children, Fall, Home

  Source: www.pbs.org

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