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“Affected simplicity is a subtle imposture.”

“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.”

Way Believe Heart Happens Movement Concern Silent Caring Separation Indifference Subtle Feds Resignation Misguided Not Caring

Book:The Art Of Forgiveness, Loving Kindness And Peace

Source: The Art Of Forgiveness, Loving Kindness And Peace

“Colorblind racism is the new racial music most people dance to, the 'new racism' is subtle, institutionalized and seemingly nonracial.”

People Music Racism Subtle

Author:Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

“In almost every professional field, in business and in the arts and sciences, women are still treated as second-class citizens. It would be a great service to tell girls who plan to work in society to expect this subtle, uncomfortable discrimination-tell them not to be quiet, and hope it will go away, but fight it. A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination.”

“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.”

Knows Giving Humans Doe Force Human Nature Battle Giving Up Devil Defeat Subtle Worms Not Giving Up

Book:The Profits of Religion

Source: The Profits of Religion

“God created the world to be praised on the subtle nature of his existence.”

World Nature Existence Subtle

Author:Kedar Joshi

“Pain is subtle. He has cold grey fingers. His voice is horse from crying & screaming... When people try to avoid him, he follows them silently & turns upas the bartender, or the bus driver... Pain has an elaborate filing system for keeping track of everyone... Pain respects people who are willing to take risks. If you... face him directly, he will give you a special ointment so your wounds don't fester.”

People Ifs Giving Trying Pain Faces Turns Voice Risk Special Cry Willing Cold Horse Fingers Track Wounds Subtle Drivers Bus Grey Bartender Filing Respect People Bus Driver

Author:J. Ruth Gendler

“A narrative thread gives people permission to think about other things whilst being carried by its flow. It does not mean that one has to compromise one's vision, or question formal concerns. It's just being more subtle and clever by having one accessible thread.”

People Thinking Giving Mean Doe Vision Concern Flow Clever Compromise Narrative Subtle Thread Just Being Permission Formal

Author:Sally Potter

“The things that are the hardest are the things that are due the quickest. The more time you have the easier it is to come up with things and navigate. I think the other things that are tough are films that are very, very subtle. Where there are little tiny nuances that make a big difference.”

Thinking Littles Bigs Film Differences Easier Tough Come Up Dues Tiny Hardest Subtle More Time Nuance Navigate

Author:Christopher Lennertz

“Movie acting is harder than doing a play. You have to be entertaining but completely natural, like Jimmy Stewart and Cary Grant. They weren't doing anything. Do you have any idea how hard that is? That's how good they were. It's crazy hard to be convincing and real. It's the most subtle, hardest thing there is.”

Ideas Real Hard Play Natural Acting Crazy Harder Hardest Subtle Grants Entertaining Hardest Thing Convincing Jimmy Jimmy Stewart

Author:Jon Lovitz

“I believe a novel must first of all be a good story. My hope is that the spiritual message is woven in so well, is such a part of the fabric of the story and of the characters' lives, that it is subtle but meaningful. This is difficult to do well and is something I constantly endeavor to improve.”

Firsts Believe Wells Character Stories Spiritual I Believe Difficult Novel Messages Meaningful Subtle Endeavor Fabric Good Story Woven

Author:Julie Klassen

“I love straight-face comedy or relatively subtle comedy. And then I turn around and I find myself doing very broad comedy but it's all fun and you have to keep your sense of humor and not take yourself seriously.”

Faces Turns Fun Comedy Subtle Broads Sense Of Humor Straight Face

Author:Betty White

“I think all senior politicians tend to be rather more subtle then the commentators would have it. It is a natural tendency for human beings to try to classify. We all have this classification urge - so and so is such and such, that person is in that camp - but look, most sophisticated people defy stereotype.”

People Thinking Trying Humans Looks Persons Natural Human Beings Politician Tendencies Subtle Urges Camps Sophisticated Senior Stereotype Commentators Classification

Author:Tony Abbott

“It would appear that the traditional parliamentary democracies can offer no fundamental opposition to that automatism of technological civilization and the industrial-consumer society, for they too are being dragged helplessly along by it. People are manipulated in ways that are infinitely more subtle and refined than the brutal methods used in post-totalitarian societies.”

Source: The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe

“The woman has circumvented man in a variety of ways in her unconsciously subtle ways, as the man has vainly and equally consciously struggled to thwart the woman in gaining ascendancy over him.”

Men Way Mankind He Man Variety Subtle Ascendancy

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“The force of nonviolence is infinitely more wonderful and subtle than the material forces of nature, like electricity.”

Force Wonderful Materials Subtle Nonviolence Electricity Forces Of Nature

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.”

Way Littles Whole Silent Subtle Nonviolence Unseen

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

“Gross and subtle, pure and mixed, simple and complex - in the end that there is no place where God is not. In every atom, He alone is present. From the ant to the universe, He spreads. The Lord who cares equally for all, the compassionate one who is all knowledge, tenderness, skill, holiness and beauty - He stands on all sides everywhere.”

Ends God Care Universe Sides Simple Lord Pure Skills Complexes Spread Holiness Subtle Compassionate Atoms Tenderness Who Cares Gross Ants Simple And Complex

Author:Vinoba Bhave

“Untouchability is a many-headed monster and forms, some of them so subtle as not to be easily detected.”

Form Monsters Subtle Untouchability

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than the habit of physical violence.”

Difficult Violence Dangerous Type Habit Truth Is Subtle Coward Cowardice Physical Violence

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Though we are politically free, we are hardly free from the subtle domination of the West.”

Freedom West Subtle Domination

Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams

“Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all it promises color. If only it keeps this promise.”

Ifs Art Color Painting Promise Subtle Sculpture

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

“There are two types of wine essentially, and everybody knows this. There's the one where you drink it and go, "Mmmm, well that's ok, can we get 8 of those please, give us 8 of those." There's the other one, you know, where you go "Ga... bt... Jesus, WHAT is that?" Very, very occasionally I concede you will hit a subtle one. You know, where you go "Ga... ba... ah, actually that's not that bad, that is. It's quite nice."”

Knows Giving Wells Two Humor Funny Jesus Nice Type Drink Please Wine Subtle

Author:Dylan Moran

“If you use language that divides people and makes people who agree with you really stoked and people who disagree with you disengaged then you're preaching to a choir, and you've lost any kind of relativity across the spectrum. So it's important to be subtle and understand that there's a lot more you can learn.”

People Ifs Kind Important Use Lost Language Agree Subtle Divides Disagree Preaching Spectrum Relativity Choir

Author:Dan Mangan

“I think there is a very subtle shift from the metal I grew up on to Weezer. I think the big shift was from a minor key to a major key. That made a huge difference in how it was perceived.”

Thinking Made Bigs Differences Huge Keys Grew Majors Grew Up Subtle Metals Minors

Author:Rivers Cuomo

“In terms of political things, I think it's important to be more direct in terms of political statements. I think in terms of philosophical and things that you plant things and see them grow lyrically or musically, it's okay to be subtle.”

Thinking Important Political Grows Term Direct Okay Philosophical Plant Statements Subtle

Author:Serj Tankian

“One accurate way to describe abortion is subtle infanticide. That is: child-killing done in a way that the people don't recognize it as child-killing. That reality is why the word abortion exists. Some words are created to cloak reality the same way procedures are created to cloak reality. "Abortion" is cloaked child-killing”

People Way Children Done Reality Killing Abortion Subtle Accurate Procedures Cloaks Infanticide

Author:John Piper

“Everything I write is personal, really. Even when I'm sarcastic, it's quite personal. And on this record, from the production to the singing to the performances, I got it really honest. To the modern ear, it seems soft. When you hear it against other things, it seems vulnerable. Lyrically and musically, though, this is more subtle. And, yes, it's asking a lot of someone who's used to being hit over the head with bright neon to listen to this.”

Writing Seems Used Records Modern Honest Singing Performances Ears Asking Productions Vulnerable Subtle Sarcastic Neon

Author:Ben Folds

“Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.”

People Way Feels Persons Feelings Parent Born Freedom Birth Refuse Surrender Destroyed Subtle Daring Imprisonment True Feelings

Author:Jim Morrison

“Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.”

Spirit Language Subtle Poetry Is Pouring

Book:The Poems of Edmund Waller

Source: The Poems of Edmund Waller

“Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.”

Home America Land Europe Philosophical Discussion Subtle Legends Pragmatism

Book:The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties : with

Source: The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties : with

“In my own pursuit of God, I often became preoccupied with ME! It was easy to think that being constantly aware of my faults and weakness was humility. It’s not! If I’m the main subject, talking incessantly about my weaknesses, I have entered into the most subtle form of pride.”

Ifs Thinking Form Easy My Own Talking Subjects Humility Pride Weakness Faults Pursuit Subtle Incessantly

Book:When Heaven Invades Earth

Source: When Heaven Invades Earth

“The absolute negative, the ultimate saying of no to the world, when it is just too late. And always the subtle conviction that if you had said No a moment earlier, it would none of it have happened. But the saying of no comes too late by a little. You are always a little too late in saying it.”

Ifs World Littles Said Moments Happened Late Negative Ultimate Absolutes Conviction Too Late Subtle

Book:Trask: A Novel

Source: Trask: A Novel

“The Aly loafer is our modern take on the penny loafer with a subtle slit across the top. I wear loafers with everything these days- skinny jeans, long skirts and dresses.”

Long Modern Dresses These Days Subtle Jeans Skinny Pennies Skirts Slits Loafers Skinny Jeans Long Skirts

Author:Ashley Olsen

“Fear is the most subtle and destructive of all hueman diseases. Fear kills dreams!”

Dream Disease Destructive Subtle

Author:Les Brown

“Freedom is not simply the circumstances that allow you to do whatever you want. Freedom is not only the opportunity to choose. Freedom is the strength of character to choose and to do what is right. With that in mind, our age is not an age of freedom, but an age of slavery. It is subtle, but it is real. The foundation of freedom is not power or choice. Freedom is upheld not by men and women in government, but by people who govern themselves.”

People Men Want Mind Real Character Government Age Choices Opportunity Freedom Circumstances Men And Women Foundation Slavery Subtle Strength Of Character Do Whatever You Want

Author:Matthew Kelly

“The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes.”

Lying Found Discovery Essence Satisfaction Endless Familiar Boredom Theme Subtle Repetition Novelty Variation Richness Obsessive

Book:Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment

Source: Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment

“Corruption is subtle, just like the Bible said. Many young poets have come to me and asked, How am I gonna make it? They feel, and often with considerable justice, that they are being overlooked while others with less talent are out there making careers for themselves. I always give the same advice. I say, Do it the hard way, and you’ll always feel good about yourself. You write because you have to, and you get this unbelievable satisfaction from doing it well. Try to live on that as long as you’re able.”

Way Giving Feels Writing Trying Wells Long Said Hard Able Young Justice Careers Advice Talent Poet Satisfaction Corruption Feel Good Subtle About Yourself Unbelievable Overlooked Hard Way

Author:Philip Levine

“Ah! what is human life? How, like the dial's tardy-moving shade, Day after day slides from us unperceiv'd! The cunning fugitive is swift by stealth; Too subtle is the movement to be seen; Yet soon the hour is up--and we are gone.”

Life Humans Moving Hours Gone Movement Human Life Subtle Shade Cunning Slides Fugitive Stealth

Book:The dramatic works of Edward Young

Source: The dramatic works of Edward Young

“I've had some wonderful ideas for getting the dominating going. I've got some extremely subtle advertising slogans that should get the public behind us. Things like "Vote for EL Wisty and lovely nude ladies will come and dance with you." It's a complete lie, of course, but you can't afford to be too scrupulous if you're going to dominate the world.”

Ifs World Should Ideas Lying Courses Behinds Wonderful Vote Lovely Advertising Subtle Slogans Dominating

Author:Peter Cook

“The subtle dance of the body joins us to the world.”

World Body Subtle

Book:The Silent Pulse

Source: The Silent Pulse

“I love sight gags and broad stuff, but you can get to such a subtle degree, especially with CG animation.”

Stuff Degrees Sight Subtle Broads Animation Gags

Author:Peter Sohn

“A character like Wonder Woman is so iconic and yet, over the course of her history, there have been lots of subtle changes. We couldn't stray too far from the comic book look, but you do have a certain amount of leeway in terms of how you interpret those elements for animation.”

Looks Has Beens Book Character Certain Courses Term Wonder Amount Elements Comic Subtle Comic Book Animation Iconic Wonder Woman

Author:Bruce Timm

“As an actor, if you step to the side and you look at [Thornton's performance] technically, and you try to imagine doing what he was doing, most people would panic. Most people would be on the set, and they would be panicking, going, "I'm not doing anything!" All the ham instincts in you would be screaming, "You've got to indicate something here." And it's beautiful, in a way. And so I appreciate, even as an audience member, the courage that it takes to be... frankly, to be subtle.”

People Ifs Way Trying Looks Would Be Beautiful Actors Sides Steps Audience Imagine Members Appreciate Performances Instinct Subtle Panic Ham

Author:Edward Norton

“A problem that I have with everything fictional is that writers are always having to come up with sudden artillery explosions in the middle of whatever is going on. The characters are having interesting, subtle interactions, or jealousies, or whatever it is, and suddenly some gigantic angry eruption has to happen, a giant gasp where everyone has to scramble around. That's the point where I'm turned off. I want the dynamic range to be a little smaller. I don't like the big false bangs.”

Want Littles Character Problem Bigs Happens Interesting Middle Angry Come Up Range Giants Subtle Interaction Bangs Explosions Artillery Turned Off Eruption

Author:Nicholson Baker

“What I like to do is take something from a man's wardrobe and re-proportion it slightly. We've got another jacket in this collection with a smaller shoulder. It's the idea of subtle feminization, to make the clothes more delicate.”

Men Ideas Clothes Shoulders Proportion Collections Subtle Delicate Jackets Wardrobe

Author:Christophe Lemaitre

“Sometimes I'm considered, I guess, a subtle actor. Maybe I'm less of a showman and more just trying to tell the story. I don't know what the perception is. I just want to tell the story so the story as a whole works as opposed to just making sure that I work.”

Knows Want Trying Sometimes Whole Stories Actors Perception Subtle

Author:Kelli O'Hara

“I communicate much better with cats, usually. I know them and their body language - as my own cats know mine very well. Cats are adept at reading subtle signals.”

Knows Wells Body Reading Language My Own Mines Cat Communicate Subtle Signals Body Language Adept

Author:Marge Piercy

“Music possesses much richer means of expression and it is a more subtle medium for translating the 1000 shifting moments of the feelings of the soul.”

Mean Soul Moments Feelings Expression Mediums Subtle Translate Shifting

Author:Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

“People talk so much to me about the beauty of confidence. They seem to entirely ignore the much more subtle beauty of doubt. To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. The Apostle Thomas was artistic up to a certain point. He appreciated the value of shadows in a picture. To be on the alert is to live. To be lulled into security is to die.”

People Believe Seems Certain Values Dies Doubt Security Shadow Artistic Dull Subtle Appreciated Apostles

Author:Robert Smythe Hichens

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