Subtle Quotes - Page 15

The desert has a subtle and a cruel charm. She destroys while she enthralls.

Rosita Forbes

Desert, Charm

Rosita Forbes (1921). “The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara”

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Everything is subtle. Everything has a million sides. Everything is a manifestation of god. Everything is light. All beings are infinite. All things are perfect, in their own way.

Frederick Lenz

Philosophy, Light, Perfect

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What you are is the most subtle delicacy of being.

John de Ruiter

Delicacy

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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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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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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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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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Physics is simple, but subtle.

Paul Ehrenfest

Simple, Physics

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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 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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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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To love one maiden only, cleave to her, And worship her by years of noble deeds, Until they won her; for indeed I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thought, and aimable words And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes man.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Passion, Men, Years

'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'Guinevere' (1859) l. 472

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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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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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Design bugs are often subtle and occur by evolution with early assumptions being forgotten as new features or uses are added to systems.

Fernando J. Corbato

Design, Use, Bugs

"On Building Systems That Will Fail". Communications of the ACM, Volume 34 Issue 9, dl.acm.org. September 1991.

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Value gives the artist the means of showing subtle changes in a form's surface-state, and it helps clarify the relative distance between forms.

Nathan Goldstein

Distance, Mean, Artist

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To exist as an advertisement of her husband's income, or her father's generosity, has become a second nature to many a woman who must have undergone, one would say, some long and subtle process of degradation before she sunk [sic] so low, or grovelled so serenely.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Fashion, Husband, Father

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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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These are the technicalities. The jetes and pirouettes.. but the music of the dance lies in the subtle signals between the steps: the fish's delivery of them, the fisherman's read of and response to them, which, if she's good, must be near telepathic. That's what takes a death-grip on your concentration. That's why your mind empties of all trivia, which, when playing a fish, includes just about everything else you could possible think of. That is what anglers live for.

Jessica Maxwell

Lying, Thinking, Lakes

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The subtle physical body protects the body's physical health. It is the radiant life force that is you. When you get sick, it is because there is a problem with your subtle physical body.

Frederick Lenz

Sick, Body, Problem

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Classical music is far from boring - it has all the blood, energy, the sinister dark side, rhythm that rock music has, and all the refined, subtle sensuality that one can ask for

Yuja Wang

Music, Dark, Blood

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The sort of morality which the priests inculcate is a very subtle policy, far finer than the politicians', and the world is very successfully ruled by them as the policemen.

Henry David Thoreau

Power, World, Morality

Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.96, Penguin

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Affected simplicity is a subtle imposture.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Simplicity, Affected

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Indifference pretends to create peace, but it is based on not caring, a silent resignation. It is a movement away, a separation fed by a subtle fear of the heart. We pull back, believing that what happens to others is not our concern. Our courage leaves us. Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.

Jack Kornfield

Believe, Heart, Caring

Jack Kornfield (2010). “The Art Of Forgiveness, Loving Kindness And Peace”, p.137, Random House

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But the devil is a subtle worm; he does not give up at one defeat, for he knows human nature, and the strength of the forces which battle for him.

Upton Sinclair

Giving Up, Battle, Devil

Upton Sinclair (2014). “The Profits of Religion”, p.262, Trajectory Inc

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