Top 1200 Delicate Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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

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

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

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

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

Sometimes things fall in your lap and sometimes you really carve them out. I've found that songs I really like can happen both ways. I've also been trying to learn when to step away and take a break and when to keep pushing through. For me it's a delicate balance of staying inspired and staying consistent, and I'm still trying to figure it out.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

True love is delicate and kind, full of gentle perception and understanding, full of beauty and grace, full of joy unutterable. There should be some flavor of this in all our love for others. We are all one. We are one flesh in the Mystical Body as man and woman are said to be one flesh in marriage. With such a love one would see all things new; we would begin to see people as they really are, as God sees them.

I think I'm an optimistic person. Ultimately I believe in people. I believe they can be robust. When my collection Delicate Edible Birds came out there were one or two people who read the title as being a commentary on the characters within the pages, the women in the book, meaning that they were these fragile girls meant for male consumption. But I had meant the opposite - these people are tough. Dark things happen to them but they get on with life as best they can.

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

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

Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.

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

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

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

And is an ending always bad? it asked. Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?"There is no need to hasten that end," Vin said. "No reason to force it."All things are subject to their own nature, Vin, Ruin said, seeming to flow around her. She could feel its touch upon her - wet and delicate, like mist. You cannot blame me for being what I am. Without me, nothing would end. Nothing could end. And therefore, nothing could grow. I am life. Would you fight life itself?

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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