Top 1200 Delicate Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background.

Do we seek delicate phraseology in politics or other forms of public life? We do not.

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

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

A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof. The throwing out [of] malicious imputations against any character leaves a stain, which no after-refutation can wipe out. To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said. The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.

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

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

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

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

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

The point of life is to find the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

In the end, science as we know it has two basic types of practitioners. One is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a snail's eye or within the light that impinges on that delicate organ. The second kind of observer is the extreme reductionist who is so busy stripping things apart that the tremendous mystery has been reduced to a trifle, to intangibles not worth troubling one's head about.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes. The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.

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

My dad makes food with very few delicate flavours.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Clare Henderson creates the most beautiful delicate prints and paintings.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fall in love fast, make sure I handle it delicate

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

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

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

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved. The soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of Divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for until the cord be broken, the bird cannot fly.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, English has reached the Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay.

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

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

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

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