Top 915 Delicate Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on November 17, 2024.
The colors of the underwater rock [are] as pale and delicate as those in the wardrobe of an 18th-century marchioness.
Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.
When I think of you it's with tears, because no one else has such delicate hands that can reach into my soul and calm my fears.
Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkable difficult to kill.
When you're dealing with killing people and things that are upsetting, that can be a delicate place to occupy yourself for a day.
Brass has a very distinctive sound. It's delicate but powerful, but it's also melancholic and plaintive.
I am very strong & robust & not of the delicate sex nor of the fair but of the deficent in look.
We should remember that it is quite as much a part of friendship to be delicate in its demands as to be ample in its performances.
To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero.
It is no secret to anyone that we are going to rule in the most delicate circumstances Spain has faced in 30 years.
It is delicate being my age and trying to do all the regular teenager stuff, and then having that in the spotlight.
Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy.
There is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation.
Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.
It is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be in the grasp of superficially educated people.
During my childhood, I had a long, dangerous spell of illness, and my health has always been delicate.
Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement — meaning atoneness, the state of being at one with the object.
I love you, rotten, Delicious rottenness. ...wonderful are the hellish experiences, Orphic, delicate Dionysos of the Underworld.
I've worked opposite so many male actors whose egos have been so delicate that it was just so hard to do the work.
Life is hard to bear: but do not affect to be so delicate! We are all of us fine sumpter asses and assesses.
Faith is not a delicate flower which would wither away under the slightest stormy weather.
The movie [Chicken with Plums] is very delicate, and you need to have people around you that understand what you're doing, otherwise it doesn't work.
Actually caffeine is too hard on my system. I'm a delicate boy from Plano, Texas.
Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.
The more delicate and ambitious the soul, the further do dreams estrange it from possible things.
There is always a very delicate interplay between individual actions and institutional conditions.
We have the resources the world needs. We can build a path for them to get there. That's that delicate balance that we find.
I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
How delicate her feet who shuns the ground, Stepping a-tiptoe on the heads of men.
The line is very delicate and fine between being what one might call sane or insane, well or unwell.
Curiosity is a delicate little plant that, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom.
My hands are delicate and elegant, thank you very much. They're well-kept; my nails are clean.
Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?
As delicate as 'Guy and Madeline' was, it was important that 'Whiplash' come off as more of a fever dream.
The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.
The human heart is so delicate and sensitive that it always needs some tangible encouragement to prevent it from faltering in its labour.
Giorgio Agamben is possibly the most delicate and probing thinker since Walter Benjamin.
Of all the items on the menu, soup is that which exacts the most delicate perfection and the strictest attention.
The clamours of spring are the same old delicate noises, The earth renews its magical youth at a breath.
You have to work to keep love alive; you have to protect it and maintain it, just like you would a delicate flower.
Simplicity, a delicate silence about oneself, increases their worth and makes one love those whom one admires.
Women are delicate creatures. Fragile. Gentle. Made by God to be sheltered from the harshness of this world.. Morgan MacDonnell
But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
You have to be delicate with how you can portray characters other people are having a worship over.
Young girls are told you have to be the delicate princess. Hermione taught them that you can be the warrior.
Film is a living, breathing thing. It's very delicate, and you have to listen and watch for what it tells you.
There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
Every green herb, from the lotus to the darnel, is rich with delicate aids to help incurious man.
I'm quite happy to laugh at Argentina's obsession with ham and cheese, but not, you know, delicate bits of their history.
I think that my sensibilities are becoming slightly less delicate and I'm venturing out in a storytelling world.
In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops.
The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.
In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness
I love the feel of good quality Italian black lace that feels delicate and really feminine.
The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
Although emotionally delicate and eminently bruisable, teenagers are short on empathy. That comes later in life, if it comes at all.
'Affinity' is beautiful and intense, with no laughs. It's a rather delicate and emotional love story, with a spooky element.
One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.
Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride.
