Subtlety Quotes - Page 6

• Unfortunately, public debates do not have much room for subtlety. The audience wants a quick thrust at your opponent, not a slow and convoluted series of moves. Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.

  Alan Lightman

  Moving, Issues, Rooms

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• I do not deal with subtleties; I am only a lawyer.

  F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead

  Lawyer, Deals

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• She that would raise a noble love must find Ways to beget a passion for her mind; She must be that which she to the world would seem, For all true love is grounded on esteem: Plainness and truth gain more a generous heart Than all the crooked subtleties of art.

  Theresa Villiers

  Art, Passion, Love Is

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• Art is the lens through which I experience the world. Art is the medium to present the human condition... love, fear, bewilderment, pleasure, distaste, brotherhood and all the subtleties that we all know.

  Alton Tobey

  Art, Brotherhood, Lenses

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• Parents are led to believe that they must be consistent, that is, always respond to the same issue the same way. Consistency is good up to a point but your child also needs to understand context and subtlety . . . much of adult life is governed by context: what is appropriate in one setting is not appropriate in another; the way something is said may be more important than what is said. . . .

  Stanley Greenspan

  Children, Believe, Issues

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• Work/Loaf Ratio”...I have spent fourteen years perfecting... I won't bore you with a long-winded explanation of the “W/LR” save to say that it is an algebraic formula of such complex numeric subtlety that it can be understood only by mathematicians and hobos.

  Gary Reilly

  Years, Bores You, Long

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• As for those wingy mysteries in divinity, and airy subtleties in religion, which have unhinged the brains of better heads, they never stretched the pia mater of mine; methinks there be not impossibilities enough in Religion for an active faith.

  Thomas Browne

  Brain, Atheism, Divinity

  'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 1, sect. 9

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• Part of my aspiration as a film actor is to bring subtlety to everything I do - honesty but subtlety.

  Benjamin Bratt

  Honesty, Actors, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• Mrs. Lammle's manner changed under the poor silly girl's embraces, and she turned extremely pale: directing one appealing look, first to Mrs. Boffin, and then to Mr. Boffin. Both understood her instantly, with a more delicate subtlety than much better educated people, whose perception came less directly from the heart, could have brought to bear upon the case.

  Charles Dickens

  Girl, Silly, Heart

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.856, Charles Dickens

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• The audience can feel the subtleties of the characters.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Character, Feels, Audience

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Some audiences can shake and bang their heads on the stage to riffs all night long, but subtlety is an art that must be mastered if you're going to be remembered.

  Robert Plant

  Art, Night, Long

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• Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being. ... the universal gravity of bodies, ... is merely the reverse or shadow of that which really moves nature. Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Moving, Heart, Shadow

  "The Phenomenon of Man". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1955.

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• If there is a class war - and there is - it is important that it should be handled with subtlety and skill. ... it is not freedom that Conservatives want; what they want is the sort of freedom that will maintain existing inequalities or restore lost ones.

  Maurice Cowling

  War, Lost Ones, Class

  "Conservative Essays" by M. Cowling, Cassell, ("The Present Position"), 1978.

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• The long words are not the hard words, it is the short words that are hard. There is much more metaphysical subtlety in the word "damn" than in the word "degeneration."

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Long, Metaphysical, Damn

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• With Dawn I was afraid people would just think it's a B-movie and I didn't know what I was doing. That's really what I was afraid of. Like the subtlety of the movie they would miss. If the movie succeeds, it's that people understand the subtlety. That they're able to see past the conventions of what they think a movie is and go a teeny bit deeper and let it be both.

  Zack Snyder

  Past, Thinking, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A small garden, accordingly, gives its owner a far greater opportunity to express himself ... in a garden any man may be an artist, may experiment with all the subtleties or simplicities of line, mass, color, and composition, and taste the god-like joys of the creator.

  Harrison Gray Otis Dwight

  Men, Garden, Artist

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• It is not only important how long your breath is. What is more important is how smooth and subtle it is. For length of breath without the accompanying subtlety is fruitless.

  T. K. V. Desikachar

  Long, Important, Smooth

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• I like whimsy and satire, and that's what Americans like so much about Brits. We bring subtlety and sense of humor that you sometimes lack. We have a very long history of importing Brits like Christopher Hitchens who are better at it than Americans are.

  Milo Yiannopoulos

  Long, Whimsy, Sense Of Humor

  Source: thestagblog.com

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• If you want to appeal to people of different languages and cultures, you have to move toward tropes that are universally recognized. Games, references, subtleties that only work in your language are hardly useful.

  Tim Parks

  Moving, Games, People

  Source: theuntranslated.wordpress.com

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• For me, the subtlety of black and white inspires the imagination of the individual viewer to complete the picture in the mind's eye. It doesn't attempt to compete with the outside world. I believe it is calmer and gentler than colour, and persists longer in our visual memory.

  Michael Kenna

  Memories, Believe, Eye

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• To me, poetry is a recreation, a renewal of language... The subtlety of what words mean and the fact that you write something and all of a sudden you'll realize that "yes, it reaches out. It meant that, too." Then all of a sudden you'll get a rhyme and the rhyme will throw up a whole new way of looking at things. It's this relationship that you never dreamed of.

  Mary Ann Hoberman

  Writing, Mean, Way

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I firstly don't think of myself as an activist, I never have. I always say that, I think this word "activist" is relatively recent one. I don't remember when people started being called that or what it means. It reduces both writers and activists, it makes it seem as though a writer's job is to just keep people entertained with best-selling books and the activist's job to keep on repeating the same thing without a great deal of subtlety and intelligence. I don't think either is the case.

  Arundhati Roy

  Jobs, Book, Mean

  Source: www.pakistantoday.com.pk

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• The language of cinema as it has evolved has also excluded vast swathes of human experience. The forms we find in the process of making a film can start to redress this balance and venture into uncharted territory. This is not just about unsung identities but about the subtleties and nuances of contemplation, the drifting spaces in which the worlds of the very small and the very large collide. Camerawork is a part of that.

  Sally Potter

  Space, Balance, Identity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Sometimes differences arise partly from incomplete information. We are finite. And we should admit that there are cases of uncertainty. But often the differences become exacerbated because of sinful inclinations underneath the surface, which incline us to prefer our own ideas and not to submit to what is less comfortable. We must be cautious about accusing anyone else of sin. We don't know people's hearts. But we must also avoid being naïve about the subtlety of sin and the corrupting effects of sin on the mind - our own minds, not only the mind of the other fellow.

  Vern Poythress

  Heart, Mind, Sometimes

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I share this view, that Hillary Clinton did not get a fair chance with both media perspectives and the subtleties on the gender discrimination. I think there was in the media particularly there's a zone of protection around Senator Obama on race where none existed on gender.

  Maria Echaveste

  Thinking, Perspective, Chance

  Source: www.pbs.org

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