Top 1200 Delicate Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

Food's delicate. You have to handle it with finesse. You can't just be a big ogre.

A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.

Fall the deep curtains, delicate the weave, fair the thread.

Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.

Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

A woman's character is as delicate as her eye; it can bear no flaw.

It was the tenderness mingled with melancholy which we bring to a time that belongs irrevocably to the past, when a pale, delicate shadow rises from it bearing the lilies of the dead, and in it we find a forgotten likeness to ourselves. And that faint, wistful shadow, that pale scent, seemed to vanish away into a wide, full, warm stream - the life that now lay open before him.

The delicate sweetness of just-picked vegetables is always worth savoring.

... love is too delicate a flower to rise again when one has trampled it under foot.

The transition from the defensive to the offensive is one of the most delicate operations in war.

Clare Henderson creates the most beautiful delicate prints and paintings.

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

In the case of women, it is of the living and unpublished blood that the violent world has professed to be delicate and ashamed. See the curious history of the political rights of woman under the Revolution. On the scaffold she enjoyed an ungrudged share in the fortunes of party. Political life might be denied her, but that seems a trifle when you consider how generously she was permitted political death.

You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living.

'Planet Caravan' by Black Sabbath is such a delicate song from such a surprising place.

Whoever declares a child to be "delicate" thereby crowns and anoints a tyrant.

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

My first memories of my mother are of a delicate lady with a kind voice.

My complexion is delicate, so I have to use things that won't irritate it. I switch moisturisers often.

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

We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.

Men are very delicate. They don't like being rejected.

Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty, of honor, grace, courtesy, delicate feeling. Where imponderables, are things of first importance, there is the height of civilization, and, if at the same time, the power of art exists unimpaired, human life has reached a level seldom attained and very seldom surpassed.

A restructuring of an organisation is always a difficult time and delicate.

I'm quite obsessed with the idea of nailing the girl friendship. It's such an art, so delicate.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom!

The curse of marriage That we can call these delicate creatures ours And not their appetites!

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

It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.

To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.

The office of the lawyer ... is too delicate, personal and confident to be occupied by a corporation.

Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck.

My dad makes food with very few delicate flavours.

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

We're not talking about a few rooms here with delicate personal matters involved.

Writing is the delicate, difficult, and dangerous means of succeeding in avowing the unavowable.

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

To read is to let someone else work for you - the most delicate form of exploitation.

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

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

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

I was so overprotected, I used to think I was as delicate as people said I was.

Friendship is far more delicate than love.

It is a kiss that, once begun, never really ends. Interrupted, yes. Paused, certainly. But from that very moment onward, Vera sees the whole of her life as only a breath away from kissing him again. On that night in the park, they begin the delicate task of binding their souls together, creating a whole comprising their separate halves.

People take the mickey out of mental health, but it is very delicate.

Swinging on delicate hinges the autumn leaf almost off the stem.

Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.

People pay attention to lyrics, and the race matter was delicate.

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

Cultural differences can be delicate situations we have to work within the respectful boundaries of.

You can't mass produce somebody's heart and soul. It's a very delicate thing.

It is contrary to the will of God to eat delicate food hastily.

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.

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

Fall in love fast, make sure I handle it delicate

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

America is a really delicate flower that needs a lot of attention.

Often in normal life I'm just constricted to what I see, maybe, and hear. But when I climb and when I'm out in the wild, other senses come to me and Delicate Arch was a free solo climb, which means I didn't have any protection and often, when I put myself in these situations, it brings out this heightened awareness which I crave so much.