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" Quotes and Sayings About subtle

“If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time-a tremendous whack.”

Important Point Clever Driver
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Nought is there in wealth that serves as bulwark 'gainst the subtle stealth Of Destiny and Doom.

Wealth Subtle Doom Destiny
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I feel a lot of personal responsibility to undo the negative stereotypes. I know that it's not coming from a bad place. It's coming from an ignorant place. I can sort of be an ambassador in a subtle way to say,

Struggle Responsibility Living Ignorant
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Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

Acceptance Looks Passive State
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For me, a woman who is absorbed in her work, who does not care about gaining one’s favour, strong yet subtle at the same time, is essentially more seductive. The more she hides and abandons her femininity, the more it emerges from the very heart of her existence.

Woman Work Absorbed Gaining
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It meant something to me – the idea of a coat guarding and hiding a woman’s body. For me, a woman who is absorbed in her work, who does not care about gaining one’s favor, strong yet subtle at the same time, is essentially more seductive. The more she hides and abandons her femininity, the more it emerges from the very heart of her existence.

Meant Coat Hiding Body
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In most cases, strengths and weaknesses are two sides of the same coin. A strength in one situation is a weakness in another, yet often the person can’t switch gears. It’s a very subtle thing to talk about strengths and weaknesses because almost always they’re the same thing.

Weakness Strength Subtle Situation
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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Subtlety Nature Sense Greater
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.

Effects Other Subtle Travel
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Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.
Deceive Integrity May Never
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Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.

Director Even Extremely Fate
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I'm here today to warn you: I want you to watch out for the adversary. Guard yourself from any spirit of entitlement. Restrain any and all subtle temptation to gain attention or to find ways to promote yourself.

Adversary Attention Entitlement Gain
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Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

Anything Detect Fold Heart
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Negative thinking is subtle and deceptive. It wears many faces and hides behind the mask of excuses. It is important to strip away the mask and discover the real, root emotion.

Away Behind Deceptive Discover
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I am a novelist. I traffic in subtleties, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing what to think. A good novel shouldn't have a point.

Am Knowing Leave Knowing
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Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

Atoms Characteristics Incumbent Know
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I was the most subtle person in the world.

Most Person Subtle World
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Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

Affairs Anger Meddle Quick
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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.

Love Direct Marked Element
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Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of.

Because IWrite Inside Lot
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We need to recognize that racism has never been subtle, though it has gone underreported.

Need Recognize Racism
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It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

Pays Obvious Reputation Subtlety
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For me, there's a subtlety in focusing on the right shape of T-shirt and pant. I recognise that it's boring, but the idea is to catch people off-guard and reward them in some valuable way.

Boring Catch Focusing Idea
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I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?

Anyone Anyone Else Branches Breathe
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Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.

Forgiveness Thread Love Friendship
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Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

About Condition Control Cultivating
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.

So subtle Atmosphere Opinion Words
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Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.

Human madness Cunning Think
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Women's fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It's men's way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they're actually tied up.

Actually Binding Bondage Clothes
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I have yet to hear God's audible voice, although I have often felt led by God in more subtle ways.

Have Hear God Audible voice Subtle ways
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Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.

Too clever An audience Obvious The subtleties
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Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning, the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides.

Cities Advantages Hostile Liberal
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I think we need to recover the depth, the subtlety, the generosity of imagination, the respect for wisdom that so marked Islam in its great ages.

I think We need Recover The depth
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Don't stress your confidence in subtleties 'Cause no better half can satisfy A wasted alibi

Stress Your confidence Better half Stress
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How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

Time Thief Youth Year
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For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

Subtlest Folly Proceeds Wisdom
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Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.

Questions Mind's Answers Subtlety
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.

Brave Heart Subtle Head
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