Subtle Quotes - Page 18

• Auguries are oft subtle...and dangerous - thou may deem they mean one thing when they mean something else altogether.

  Dennis L. McKiernan

  Mean, May, Dangerous

  Dennis L. McKiernan (1993). “The Eye of the Hunter”, Roc

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• Honestly, I don't aspire to be a huge movie star. I really just fell in love with acting... Everything I do on-screen is very subtle.

  Dave Bautista

  Stars, Acting, Movie Star

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I believe that the medium of photography prevails entirely as an act of faith in the souls of those who love and practice it. And so every photograph becomes another subtle variation on the theme of the medium itself.

  Ralph Gibson

  Photography, Believe, Practice

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• What scares me most about the media is that so many of them don't realize that by presenting and highlighting certain issues, opinions, and perspectives over others, they can manipulate and control people's beliefs in subtle ways.

  Oliver Stone

  Issues, Media, Perspective

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• Our common stock of words embodies all the distinctions men have found worth drawing, and the connexions they have found worth marketing, in the lifetimes of many generation; these surely are likely to be more numerous, more sound, since they have stood up to the long test of thee survival of the fittest, and more subtle, at least in all ordinary and reasonably practical matters, than any that you or I are likely to think up in our arm-chairs of an afternoon-the most favoured alternative method.

  J. L. Austin

  Men, Thinking, Drawing

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• As subtle and universally pervasive as gravity, love touches everything, and enhances everything it touches.

  Elizabeth Lowell

  Gravity

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• In very subtle ways, how we regard ourselves and others continually changes us into something new.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Way, Something New, Regard

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• We can set no limit to human potentialities; all that is best in man can be bettered; it is not a question of producing a highly efficient machine, ... but of quickening all the distinctly human features, all that is best in man, all the different qualities, some obvious, some infinitely subtle, which we recognize as humanly excellent.

  Ronald Fisher

  Men, Quality, Different

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• There is onslaught is the accelerating momentum of technologies and instrumental mentalities that are exterminating spontaneity, undermining love and common decency. It's a thief of time and includes all the palpable and subtle violations of body, mind, and spirit done in the name of science, government, enterprise, progress, and profit.

  Stephanie Mills

  Technology, Government, Names

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• If you want money more than anything, you'll be bought and sold. If you have a greed for food, you'll be a loaf of bread. This is a subtle truth: Whatever you love, you are.

  Rumi

  Love You, Greed, Want

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• The rope connecting two men on a mountain is more than nylon protection; it is an organic thing that transmits subtle messages of intent and disposition from man to man; it is an extension of the tactile senses, a psychological bond, a wire along which currents of communication flow.

  Trevanian

  Communication, Men, Two

  Trevanian (2005). “The Eiger Sanction: A Novel”, p.255, Crown

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• But precisely this illusion that everything is "clear" is what is blinding us all. It is a serious temptation, and it is a subtle form of pride and worldly love of power and revenge.

  Thomas Merton

  Revenge, Pride, Temptation

  Thomas Merton (1995). “Witness to Freedom: The Letters of Thomas Merton in Times of Crisis”, p.183, Macmillan

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• There is a subtle but inescapable connection between the "sacred" attitude and the acceptance of one's in most self.

  Thomas Merton

  Attitude, Acceptance, Self

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• My suggestion for a fast style upgrade would be to embrace a pop of color or pattern. Try layering a bright, pullover knit on top of a dress shirt with a subtle or bold pattern.

  Cam Newton

  Color, Style, Trying

  "Cam Newton Wants to Teach You How to Wear a Sweater". Interview with Nic Screws, www.bloomberg.com. December 29, 2015.

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• There are a few obvious consequences and perhaps one subtle possibility. One obvious thing is that, to stimulate the economy, President Obama has committed to creating millions of green jobs that will leave a legacy - much as Roosevelt's public works did during the new deal.

  Denis Hayes

  Jobs, Obvious Things, Creating

  "The Rumpus Interview with Earth Day organiser Denis Hayes". Interview with Melissa Price, therumpus.net. April 22, 2009.

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• The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological atmosphere or climate favorable to the life of certain modes of belief, unfavorable, and even fatal, to the life of others.

  Arthur Balfour

  Atmosphere, Climate, Belief

  Arthur James Balfour (1895). “The Foundations of Belief: Being Notes Introductory to the Study of Theology”

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• Raffiniert ist der Herr Gott, aber boshaft ist er nicht. God is subtle, but he is not malicious.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Mathematical, Malicious

  Remark made at Princeton University, c.9 May 1921, in R. W. Clark 'Einstein' (1973) ch. 14

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• It is possible for a mathematician to be "too strong" for a given occasion. He forces through, where another might be driven to a different, and possible more fruitful, approach. (So a rock climber might force a dreadful crack, instead of finding a subtle and delicate route.)

  John Edensor Littlewood

  Strong, Rocks, Different

  John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.144, Cambridge University Press

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• No corporeal substance can be so subtle and swift as this.

  William of Conches

  Light, Substance

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• There is something so great about film and television where you can convey an emotion in
  the blink of an eye which you would perhaps not be able to do to the back row of a theatre, like
  over 1000 seats, and there is something so subtle and beautiful about that too.

  Anna Camp

  Beautiful, Eye, Theatre

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• Rarely is any good done without difficulty; the devil is too subtle and the world too corrupt not to attempt to nip such a good work in the bud

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Devil, Bud

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”

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• A typical mathematician does not actively try to be useful. Individual mathematicians are motivated primarily by a subtle mixture of ambition and intellectual curiosity, and not by a wish to benefit society, nevertheless, mathematics as a whole does benefit society.

  Timothy Gowers

  Ambition, Math, Curiosity

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• While the Lord will magnify us in both subtle and dramatic ways, he can only guide our footsteps when we move our feet.

  Marion G. Romney

  Moving, Feet, Way

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• When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads.

  Ann Patchett

  Country, Stories, Movement

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• 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.

  Alice Bailey

  Healing, Expression, Understanding

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