Subtleness Antonym Quotes & Sayings

Since governmental quotas expand bureaucratic power, provoke a backlash and are unfair to individuals, we need to find a better way to increase minority opportunities. — Marvin Olasky

Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline. — Barbara Tuchman

Man's home is nature; his purposes and aims are dependent for execution upon natural conditions. Separated from such conditions they become empty dreams and idle indulgences of fancy. — John Dewey

There is a good saying to the effect that when a new book appears one should read an old one. — Winston S. Churchill

But when you kill someone you love, the hard part is never over. It just gets easier to distract yourself from what you've done. — Veronica Roth

The problem Christians have isn't our belief in what God could do, but on what God should do. — Todd Stocker

What is writing, after all, except fumbling in darkness endeavoring to light a candle? — Peggy Toney Horton

How long he stood he did not know, but there was a foolish and yet delicious sense of knowing himself as an animal come from the forest, drawn by the fire. He was a thing of brush and liquid eye, of fur and muzzle and hoof, he was a thing of horn and blood that would smell like autumn if you bled it out on the ground. He stood a long time, listening to the warm crackle of the flames. — Ray Bradbury

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. — Calvin Coolidge

None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The phrase "the violent bear it away" fascinated the 20th century Irish-American storyteller Flannery O'Connor, who used it as the title of one of her novels. O'Connor's surname connects her to an Irish royal family descended from Conchobor (pronounced "Connor"), the prehistoric king of Ulster who was foster father to Cuchulainn and "husband" of the unwilling Derdriu. In the western world, the antiquity of Irish lineages is exceeded only by that of the Jews. — Thomas Cahill

But no one was prouder of me or happier for me than Branwell, and I think he would not have been prouder or happier if he had won himself. And I don't know anyone anywhere who has a friend like that. — E.L. Konigsburg

Never forget that what becomes timeless was once truly new. — Nicolas Ghesquiere