Top 1200 Delicate Balance Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison.

But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.

'Affinity' is beautiful and intense, with no laughs. It's a rather delicate and emotional love story, with a spooky element.

Women are delicate creatures. Fragile. Gentle. Made by God to be sheltered from the harshness of this world.. Morgan MacDonnell

This planet is not terra firma. It is a delicate flower and it must be cared for. It's lonely. It's small. It's isolated, and there is no resupply. And we are mistreating it.

Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride.

Work-life balance for founders doesn't look like work-life balance for everyone else. Starting a company isn't a nine-to-six job - or a nine-to-nine job, or a nine-to-midnight job.

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.

[Beauty is] a delicate bait with a deadly hook; a sweet panther with a devouring paunch, a sour poison in a silver pot.

There are forces at work you do not perceive. I weave a delicate strategy which rash actions could rend. Patience , please.

Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements that made the city operational.

In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops.

All those little congruences and arabesques you prepared with such delicate anticipatory pleasure are gobbled up as if by pigs at a pastry cart.

The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.

Ling cod is a mild-flavored and somewhat delicate fish that takes well to poaching, braising and pan-roasting.

People of delicate health, selfish dispositions, and coarse minds, can always bear the sufferings of others placidly.

Thou ever young, fresh, lov'd, and delicate wooer, whose blush doth thaw the consecrated snow

Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet's work, but never yea to his hope.

Chana dal are skinless dried split chickpeas used in Indian cooking. They have a great texture and delicate flavour.

Balance. It was all about balance. That had been one of the first things that she had learned: the centre of the seesaw has neither up nor down, but upness and downness flow through it while it remains unmoved. You had to be the centre of the seesaw so the pain flowed through you, not into you. It was very hard. But she could do it!

Balance is a tricky thing. I love my work and that helps. And I work a lot. So I spend a fair amount of time trying to make sure I'm taking time off, exercising, meditating and things like that. I also have a powerful support team (including my partner, Kelley) to keep me grounded. I don't always feel like I have the balance I want, but I have awareness about it, which I think is key.

Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells...Easy to crush.

The clamours of spring are the same old delicate noises, The earth renews its magical youth at a breath.

There is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation.

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.

Whether you either passionately think we should stay in, or on balance think we should stay in, or on a balance of risks think we should stay in - for heaven's sake get out and vote in, because you might wake up and find out you're out.

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.

When a human body is out of balance we call that disease, which indicates dis-ease of the body. Likewise, when the body of Christ becomes unbalanced, disease occurs... Health will occur only when everything is brought back into balance. The task of church leadership is to discover and remove growth-restricting diseases and barriers so that natural, normal growth can occur.

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

The human heart is so delicate and sensitive that it always needs some tangible encouragement to prevent it from faltering in its labour.

I've worked opposite so many male actors whose egos have been so delicate that it was just so hard to do the work.

Relish the fresh landscape of my wound, break rushes and delicate rivulets, drink blood poured on honeyed thigh.

Simplicity, a delicate silence about oneself, increases their worth and makes one love those whom one admires.

The line is very delicate and fine between being what one might call sane or insane, well or unwell.

What appears in the pictures was the subject's decision, not mine. I took what they presented - delicate moments - unadorned and unglamorous, yet tender and exquisite.

Sometimes it seemed to him that his life was delicate as a dandelion. One little puff from any direction, and it was blown to bits.

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation.

Everybody thinks I'm this delicate little girl. But you can't tell a book by it's cover.' To which she added a momentary smile.

Moscow and Washington have evolved a delicate process for 'de-confliction' in the tight Syrian airspace, where accidents or miscommunication could be disastrous.

I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them.

A parliamentary democracy that has developed its delicate balances over hundreds of years will not give up its sovereign rights.

Every green herb, from the lotus to the darnel, is rich with delicate aids to help incurious man.

You have to work to keep love alive; you have to protect it and maintain it, just like you would a delicate flower.

I love the feel of good quality Italian black lace that feels delicate and really feminine.

Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.

Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.

I work within the limits of what I have and know, simplicity and low impact, natural materials and processes, leaving a delicate footprint.

I think we should balance the federal budget tomorrow. I'm optimistic. I think Americans are optimistic. We went to the moon; we can balance the federal budget.

Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked.

The eye that directs a needle in the delicate meshes of embroidery will equally well bisect a star with the spiderweb of the micrometer.

In this life, we are in a constant search for inner peace. We long for it in all aspects of our lives, both personally and professionally. The truth is that we cannot have inner peace without balance. It seems that having too much or too little of anything completely throws off our balance, therefore limiting our inner peace.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.

Topography displays no favorites; North's as near as West. More delicate than the historians' are the map-makers' colors.

To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero.

There's no automatic mechanism in a market system that reconciles the desire to save and the desire to invest. And therefore, the government has to sort of do something or the Federal Reserve, the Fed, or the Central Bank, or whatever, it has to intervene. It has to create enough investment for the economy not to suffer from a fall in aggregate demand. So, if you don't have a balance within the market system itself, then you need an external balance and that's what I think Keynes believed.

Without silence, there cannot be any real appreciation in life, which is as delicate in its inner fabric as a closed rosebud.

One of the beauties of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is the very delicate and strange relationship between the two main characters.

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.