(64 quotes found)
“When 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.”
Winston Churchill
“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.”
Sun Tzu
“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
“Joy is a subtle elf; I think one's happiest when he forgets himself.”
Cyril Tourneur
“Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.”
Daniel Bell
“We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described”
Henry David Thoreau
“Subtle, clever brain, wiser than I am,by what devious means do you contriveto remain idle? Teach me, O master.”
William Carlos Williams
“You wouldn't know a subtle plan if it painted itself purple and danced naked on top of a harpsichord singing 'Subtle Plans Are Here Again.'”
Blackadder
“There's a subtle undertow here about buy America, ... This bill has picked up a little bit of steam because of that.”
Cliff Stearns
“The dismissing of other viewpoints happens so quickly and is so subtle that it is very tough to address as a leader.”
Sean O'Keefe
