Subdued Quotes

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn?

Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all those nuclear weapons the Soviets have aimed at it simply through the shipping routes and raw materials they control.

The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued.

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.

Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.

Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

Some Kentucky fans are a little more subdued.

And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.

We look our best in subdued colors, sophisticated cuts, and a general air of sleek understatement.