Top 1200 Delicate Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm quite happy to laugh at Argentina's obsession with ham and cheese, but not, you know, delicate bits of their history.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

These commonplace categories - wife, mother, housewife, teacher - are in fact teleological referents. They gesture to profound states of being that animate, absorb and saturate the subject, like indelible dyes spilled repeatedly over a plain fabric. No matter if the fabric is sturdy or delicate, translucent or opaque, those dyes will stain. They will color the days and years and life.

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

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.

While you make pretty speeches I'm being cut to shreds You feed me to the lions A delicate balance.

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

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

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

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

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

I love you, rotten, Delicious rottenness. ...wonderful are the hellish experiences, Orphic, delicate Dionysos of the Underworld.

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

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

Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement — meaning atoneness, the state of being at one with the object.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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