“ There is space within sisterhood for likeness and difference, for the subtle differences that challenge and delight; there is space for disappointment and surprise. ”
- Christine Downing- Copy
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“ I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows. ”
- Emily Carr- Copy
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“ We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh just, subtle, and mighty opium! ”
- Thomas De Quincey- Copy
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“ Then I thought of reading — the nice and subtle happiness of reading … this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication. ”
- Logan Pearsall Smith- Copy
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“ The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder. ”
- Jim Morrison- Copy
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“ Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour. ”
- Mike Myers- Copy
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“ Love makes a subtle man out of a crude one, it gives eloquence to the mute, it gives courage the cowardly and makes the idle quick and sharp. ”
- Juan Ruiz- Copy
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“ It is very difficult to conceive of a hoaxer, so subtle, so knowledgeable - so sick - who would deliberately fake a footprint of this nature. ”
- John Napier- Copy
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“ Tall, bald, and pouch-eyed, with a velvet voice, a droll wit and the face of a cunning bloodhound a performer who made audiences twitter and roar with subtle ease. ”
- Robert D. McFadden- Copy
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“ Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it. He must always be a stranger to the place he loves, and its people. ”
- Willie Morris- Copy
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“ Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor's speech into sorcery. ”
- T. E. Kalem- Copy
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“ There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to continually analyze why they write, where it all comes from, where it's going to. ”
- Kazuo Ishiguro- Copy
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“ But to make a holiday record that involves favorite American songs and then also get to sing about Jesus birth, it just seemed like a real easy, subtle way to combine a couple of things that I love. ”
- Amy Grant- Copy
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“ It did not feel like something that was going to take over my life and destroy it. It felt like a subtle flower instead of a manipulative demon. That's the mystery of heroin. ”
- Corey Feldman- Copy
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“ How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year! ”
- John Milton- Copy
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“ Honesty without compassion and understanding is not honesty, but subtle hostility. ”
- Rose N. Franzblau- Copy
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“ Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ Faith is the subtle chain which binds us to the infinite. ”
- Elizabeth Elton Smith- Copy
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“ Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and not with the Master. ”
- Oswald Chambers- Copy
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“ Command by instinct is swifter, subtler, deeper, more accurate, more in touch with reality than command by conscious mind. The discovery takes one's breath away. ”
- Michael Novak- Copy
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“ But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power. ”
- James Baldwin- Copy
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