Top 1200 Delicate Balance Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

My hands are delicate and elegant, thank you very much. They're well-kept; my nails are clean.

I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone.

I’ll have you know that the most delicate flowers often produce the strongest scent when crushed.

Giorgio Agamben is possibly the most delicate and probing thinker since Walter Benjamin.

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

Everybody wants to make some money, but they really love what they do. You got others who are just "money, money, money," and fast life and women and everything. They go a whole other route. That's a fight of good vs. evil. A balance. It seems that more of these stations are pushing a negative side instead of keeping a balance, and to me, that's a conspiracy that's going on all over the planet.

How delicate her feet who shuns the ground, Stepping a-tiptoe on the heads of men.

There is always a very delicate interplay between individual actions and institutional conditions.

When you're dealing with killing people and things that are upsetting, that can be a delicate place to occupy yourself for a day.

Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.

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.

The days when a princess was too delicate to sleep on a mattress with a pea under it are long gone.

I am very strong & robust & not of the delicate sex nor of the fair but of the deficent in look.

I take two walks up hills each day, and bike ride each morning. I also have an exercise bike to increase my heart rate. My wife and I have been going to a personal trainer for weights and balance twice a week for 10 years. My balance has improved tremendously and the weights decrease my age. I only feel 52, not 82.

The colors of the underwater rock [are] as pale and delicate as those in the wardrobe of an 18th-century marchioness.

Actually caffeine is too hard on my system. I'm a delicate boy from Plano, Texas.

It is delicate being my age and trying to do all the regular teenager stuff, and then having that in the spotlight.

Life is hard to bear: but do not affect to be so delicate! We are all of us fine sumpter asses and assesses.

It is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be in the grasp of superficially educated people.

The Swedish language combines the strong manhood of the German with the delicate beauty of the Italian.

Of all the items on the menu, soup is that which exacts the most delicate perfection and the strictest attention.

It is no secret to anyone that we are going to rule in the most delicate circumstances Spain has faced in 30 years.

If people get their feelings hurt from jokes, then they are too delicate to be in society.

You have to be delicate with how you can portray characters other people are having a worship over.

Film is a living, breathing thing. It's very delicate, and you have to listen and watch for what it tells you.

Do you know what a balance wheel is?” She shook her head slightly. “There’s one in every clock or watch. It rotates back and forth without stopping. It’s what makes the ticking sound...what makes the hands move forward to mark the minutes. Without it, the watch wouldn’t work. You’re my balance wheel, Poppy.” -Harry Rutledge

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.

The flowers were so beautiful, so delicate and unthreatening, but they choked everything around them.

An opening statement is like a guide or a road map. It's a very delicate thing.

Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?

Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.

The more delicate and ambitious the soul, the further do dreams estrange it from possible things.

I think that my sensibilities are becoming slightly less delicate and I'm venturing out in a storytelling world.

You can say I'm a hater. But I would argue I'm a lover. I'm a lover of traditional families and of the right of children to have a mother and father... I would argue that the future of America hangs in the balance, because the future of the family hangs in the balance. Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?

There is always an element of realpolitik that has to be present in the conduct of any nation's national security affairs. At the same time, we have to also have a balance between realpolitik and Wilsonian principles of freedom and democracy and human rights. And maintaining that balance is the greatest challenge that we in the West, including the Federal Republic of Germany, have to face because it's many times a very difficult decision-making process.

Our whole evolution up to this point shows that human groups spontaneously evolve patterns of behavior, as well as patterns of training people for that behavior, which tend on balance to lead people to create rather than destroy. Humans are, on net balance, builders rather than destroyers.

During my childhood, I had a long, dangerous spell of illness, and my health has always been delicate.

Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy.

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.

Faith is not a delicate flower which would wither away under the slightest stormy weather.

You can live a wonderful life, you can love God with all your heart, and you can love your husband or wife very passionately and have a balance in your life. I live by balance.

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 what we need is a balance between men and women. I don't believe in the value of the matriarchy as a model for human organizations any more than I believe in the value of patriarchy as a successful model. I think that what we need is a balance of male and female, the yin and the yang, the tantric union of god and goddess, enlightenment of the individual.

[The] weakness of biological balance studies has aptly been illustrated by comparison with the working of a slot machine. A penny brings forth one package of chewing gum; two pennies bring forth two. Interpreted according to the reasoning of balance physiology, the first observation is an indication of the conversion of copper into gum; the second constitutes proof.

Men as well as women, must strive for a balance of experience. Masculinity, defined as requiring the ability to act physically or mentally but excluding anything too emotional or nurturing, currently denies men this balance. Their ability to care is seen as inappropriate for everyday use, and a lack of desire for power or promotion are seen as signs of inadequacy.

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.

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness

The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.

As delicate as 'Guy and Madeline' was, it was important that 'Whiplash' come off as more of a fever dream.

The delicate droop of the petals standing out in relief, is like the eyelid of a child.

I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.

There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.

Although emotionally delicate and eminently bruisable, teenagers are short on empathy. That comes later in life, if it comes at all.

A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable. A visionary company doesn't simply balance between preserving a tightly held core ideology and stimulating vigorous change and movement; it does both to an extreme.

Curiosity is a delicate little plant that, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom.

Atoms have a nucleus, made of protons and neutrons bound together. Around this nucleus shells of electrons spin, and each shell is either full or trying to get full, to balance with the number of protons-to balance the number of positive and negative charges. An atom is like a human heart, you see.

Young girls are told you have to be the delicate princess. Hermione taught them that you can be the warrior.

Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkable difficult to kill.

Brass has a very distinctive sound. It's delicate but powerful, but it's also melancholic and plaintive.

In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.