Quotes about Delicate

True strength is delicate. Votes: 4

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses. Votes: 4

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate. Votes: 4

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints. Votes: 3

I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone. Votes: 3

Today I will find something beautiful.Delicate pink blossoms on a cherry tree.The dove resting near the lemon buds.Sunbeams smiling from sky to earth.Smiling on me."Creating" in BREATHE IN Votes: 3

Delicate footprints circled around and around in a softly traced maze. I breathed in the scent of the deep crimson rose petals before me, and a glimpse of a thought suddenly surrounded them." Votes: 3

The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form? Votes: 3

Delicate, gracious, and eloquent, John Brandi's poems reveal that he remains an extraordinary profound poet of prayer and praise. His is the most honorable and heroic of ambitions - to dress our broken world in the clothes of language, trust, and hope. Votes: 3

Jasmine is just the most delicate and beautiful scent. Votes: 2

The balance between freedom and security is a delicate one. Votes: 2

You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, & you believe you are living. Votes: 2

Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. Votes: 2

When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background. Votes: 2

The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate. Votes: 2

I was so overprotected, I used to think I was as delicate as people said I was. Votes: 2

There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths. Votes: 2

Chefs are nutters. They're all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them. Votes: 2

Young girls are told you have to be the delicate princess. Hermione taught them that you can be the warrior. Votes: 2

Metallica is a very complicated, fragile thing. On the outside, it's all metal, but on the inside it's very delicate. Votes: 2

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from.' Votes: 2

I have a career, which is important, but my family is the priority. First family, and then career. It's a delicate balance. Votes: 2

Without silence, there cannot be any real appreciation in life, which is as delicate in its inner fabric as a closed rosebud. Votes: 2

The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves. Votes: 2

Eye , gazelle, delicate wanderer, Drinker of horizon's fluid line; Ear that suspends on a chord The spirit drinking timelessness; Touch, love, all senses... Votes: 2

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself. Votes: 2

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper. Votes: 2

The pigeon here is a beautiful bird, of a delicate bronze colour, tinged with pink about the neck, and the wings marked with green and purple. Votes: 2

An honorable human relationship ... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other. Votes: 2

Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures. Votes: 2

The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well. Votes: 2

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words. Votes: 2

How can we keep the government we create from becoming a Frankenstein that will destroy the very freedom we establish it to protect? Freedom is a rare and delicate plan. Votes: 2

I used the stormy gray and heather brown shadows from the Lilac Rose Eye Palette to create a soft smokey eye for Veronica Beard's Spring 2013 show. The look was dramatic but delicate. Votes: 2

All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories, emotions and that ultimate souvenir, the self. Votes: 2

The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion: the balance between my brain and my soul and my body is as wild and delicate as the skin of a Ming vase. Votes: 2

I was anorexic in the '60s and '70s, although it wasn't called anorexia then. I thought people would be nicer to me if I looked very small and delicate, so food wasn't high on my agenda. But it is now. Votes: 2

God maintains a delicate balance between keeping his existence sufficiently evident so people will know he's there and yet hiding his presence enough so that people who want to choose to ignore him can do it. This way, their choice of destiny is really free. Votes: 2

We will not play with inflation. We are living a delicate moment. President Obama spoke to me today about the high unemployment affecting the United States. In this crisis period, when the developed nations are not recovering, it's prudent to maintain the established inflation target. Votes: 2

What I might do is watch Mrs Doubtfire. Or Dead Poets Society or Good Will Hunting and I might be nice to people, mindful today how fragile we all are, how delicate we are, even when fizzing with divine madness that seems like it will never expire. Votes: 2

I like the collarbone, a very clean collarbone. I think there's something also very delicate and balletic about that part of a woman's body, and I'm not really a cleavage person, but I do like a back or a shoulder; I think there's something very alluring about backless dresses. Votes: 2

The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I defended myself against him by alleging the trials which Christ endured, and that it was not much for me to suffer something for His sake; besides, He would help me to bear it. Votes: 2

Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands. Votes: 2

Hunger is never delicate. Votes: 0

Hope is delicate suffering. Votes: 0

Simplicity is a delicate imposition. Votes: 0

I'm feeling a little delicate. Votes: 0

It isn't ever delicate to live. Votes: 0

I do have a delicate side. Votes: 0

Actors have these delicate appendages called Egos. Votes: 0

Refinement is the delicate aroma of Christianity. Votes: 0

Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions. Votes: 0

Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures. Votes: 0

Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep! Votes: 0

The delicate sensitivity of a frightened rattlesnake. Votes: 0

You know men. We have delicate egos. Votes: 0

When the mind's free, The Body's delicate. Votes: 0

Modesty is the delicate form of hypocrisy. Votes: 0

Friendship is far more delicate than love. Votes: 0

I don't like seeing her this delicate. Votes: 0

Gloves make you so much more delicate. Votes: 0

Psychic beings are childlike, delicate and easily destroyed. Votes: 0

The flavor of wine is like delicate poetry. Votes: 0

Meditation is the delicate art of doing nothing. Votes: 0

Taste is nothing but a delicate good sense. Votes: 0

You're not hurt, are you?" "Only my delicate sensibilities. Votes: 0

Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize. Votes: 0

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. Votes: 0

Men are very delicate. They don't like being rejected. Votes: 0

Competition is a tough weed, not a delicate flower. Votes: 0

Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts Votes: 0

There is no room in war for delicate machinery. Votes: 0

A hero's love is as delicate as a maiden's. Votes: 0

A delicate thought is a flower of the mind. Votes: 0

Fall in love fast, make sure I handle it delicate Votes: 0

Oatcakes are a delicate relish when eaten warm with ale. Votes: 0

Judgment is a delicate thing and does not come overnight. Votes: 0

True hospitality is a delicate balance of warmth and form. Votes: 0

Fall the deep curtains, delicate the weave, fair the thread. Votes: 0

We have buried so much of the delicate magic of life. Votes: 0

Fine and delicate taste is the fruit of education and experience. Votes: 0

People pay attention to lyrics, and the race matter was delicate. Votes: 0

Swinging on delicate hinges the autumn leaf almost off the stem. Votes: 0

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages. Votes: 0

America is a really delicate flower that needs a lot of attention. Votes: 0

I think it's funny to be delicate with subjects that are explosive. Votes: 0

The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit itself. Votes: 0

I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically. Votes: 0

There is always a very delicate interplay between individual actions and institutional conditions. Votes: 0

Giorgio Agamben is possibly the most delicate and probing thinker since Walter Benjamin. Votes: 0

Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise. Votes: 0

We're not talking about a few rooms here with delicate personal matters involved. Votes: 0

To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment. Votes: 0

Whoever declares a child to be "delicate" thereby crowns and anoints a tyrant. Votes: 0

To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment Votes: 0

My task is becoming more and more delicate, while the difficulties increase constantly. Votes: 0

Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain. Votes: 0

People take the mickey out of mental health, but it is very delicate. Votes: 0

Mind is a most delicate evidence. Not a soul has seen it yet. Votes: 0

It is contrary to the will of God to eat delicate food hastily. Votes: 0

The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it. Votes: 0

Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken. Votes: 0

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom! Votes: 0

The point of life is to find the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality. Votes: 0

That most sensitive, most delicate of instruments -- the mind of a little child! Votes: 0

Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy. Votes: 0

I've been a bad, bad girl - I've been careless with a delicate man. Votes: 0

Writing is the delicate, difficult, and dangerous means of succeeding in avowing the unavowable. Votes: 0

Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail. Votes: 0

A woman's character is as delicate as her eye; it can bear no flaw. Votes: 0

There is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation. Votes: 0

Faith is not a delicate flower which would wither away under the slightest stormy weather. Votes: 0

The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful. Votes: 0

Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkable difficult to kill. Votes: 0

Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck. Votes: 0

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute. Votes: 0

Thou ever young, fresh, lov'd, and delicate wooer, whose blush doth thaw the consecrated snow Votes: 0

How delicate her feet who shuns the ground, Stepping a-tiptoe on the heads of men. Votes: 0

The flowers were so beautiful, so delicate and unthreatening, but they choked everything around them. Votes: 0

Actually caffeine is too hard on my system. I'm a delicate boy from Plano, Texas. Votes: 0

Your strength is soft, indirect, delicate, tender, womanly. But it is strength just the same. Votes: 0

The more delicate and ambitious the soul, the further do dreams estrange it from possible things. Votes: 0

I'll have you know that the most delicate flowers often produce the strongest scent when crushed. Votes: 0

Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride. Votes: 0

The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others. Votes: 0

In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops. Votes: 0

Why do You thus devise Evil against her?' 'For that She is beautiful, delicate; Therefore. Votes: 0

Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge. Votes: 0

I love the feel of good quality Italian black lace that feels delicate and really feminine. Votes: 0

An opening statement is like a guide or a road map. It's a very delicate thing. Votes: 0

Food's delicate. You have to handle it with finesse. You can't just be a big ogre. Votes: 0

We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves. Votes: 0

... love is too delicate a flower to rise again when one has trampled it under foot. Votes: 0

Success is the result of a delicate balance between making things happen and letting things happen. Votes: 0

A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. Votes: 0

On the inside, the copycats of the ruffians are more delicate than the copycats of prudes. Votes: 0

Curiosity is a delicate little plant that, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Votes: 0

People of delicate health, selfish dispositions, and coarse minds, can always bear the sufferings of others placidly. Votes: 0

I love you, rotten, Delicious rottenness. ...wonderful are the hellish experiences, Orphic, delicate Dionysos of the Underworld. Votes: 0

The Swedish language combines the strong manhood of the German with the delicate beauty of the Italian. Votes: 0

The line between being a nurturing parent and an over-bearing, damaging parent is one that's very delicate. Votes: 0

The office of the lawyer ... is too delicate, personal and confident to be occupied by a corporation. Votes: 0

Ling cod is a mild-flavored and somewhat delicate fish that takes well to poaching, braising and pan-roasting. Votes: 0

Black and white are absolute...expressing the most delicate vibration, the most profound tranquility, and unlimited profundity. Votes: 0

Simplicity, a delicate silence about oneself, increases their worth and makes one love those whom one admires. Votes: 0

To read is to let someone else work for you - the most delicate form of exploitation. Votes: 0

The delicate droop of the petals standing out in relief, is like the eyelid of a child. Votes: 0

I tried singing in a deeper voice by lowering my voice that used to be more delicate. Votes: 0

The transition from the defensive to the offensive is one of the most delicate operations in war. Votes: 0

I'm quite obsessed with the idea of nailing the girl friendship. It's such an art, so delicate. Votes: 0

The more you worry, the more you throw off the delicate balance of hormones required for health. Votes: 0

The more you worry, the more you throw off the delicate balance of hormones required for health. Votes: 0

Topography displays no favorites; North's as near as West. More delicate than the historians' are the map-makers' colors. Votes: 0

Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells...Easy to crush. Votes: 0

Fragrance, whether strong or delicate, is a highly subjective matter, and one gardener's perfume is another gardener's stink. Votes: 0

Relish the fresh landscape of my wound, break rushes and delicate rivulets, drink blood poured on honeyed thigh. Votes: 0

Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys. Votes: 0

I think that my sensibilities are becoming slightly less delicate and I'm venturing out in a storytelling world. Votes: 0

You have to be delicate with how you can portray characters other people are having a worship over. Votes: 0

My complexion is delicate, so I have to use things that won't irritate it. I switch moisturisers often. Votes: 0

Every green herb, from the lotus to the darnel, is rich with delicate aids to help incurious man. Votes: 0

The clamours of spring are the same old delicate noises, The earth renews its magical youth at a breath. Votes: 0

Be quick to resolve conflicts before they mature to become wars. The energetic crocodile was once a delicate egg! Votes: 0

Creativity is a fragile, delicate flower,which must be cautiously cared forand protected,from the harsh elementsof "human weather. Votes: 0

Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks. Votes: 0

I love the intimate, single spotlight, troubadour-y quiet, delicate moments. But I also love Springsteen and screaming and shouting. Votes: 0

Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes-each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hands. Votes: 0

The line is very delicate and fine between being what one might call sane or insane, well or unwell. Votes: 0

While you make pretty speeches I'm being cut to shreds You feed me to the lions A delicate balance Votes: 0

Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness... meaning at-oneness, the state of being at one with the object. Votes: 0

Chana dal are skinless dried split chickpeas used in Indian cooking. They have a great texture and delicate flavour. Votes: 0

Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison. Votes: 0

'Affinity' is beautiful and intense, with no laughs. It's a rather delicate and emotional love story, with a spooky element. Votes: 0

Affinity' is beautiful and intense, with no laughs. It's a rather delicate and emotional love story, with a spooky element. Votes: 0

Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet's work, but never yea to his hope. Votes: 0

The colors of the underwater rock [are] as pale and delicate as those in the wardrobe of an 18th-century marchioness. Votes: 0

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness. Votes: 0

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness." Votes: 0

Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world. Votes: 0

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness Votes: 0

Women are delicate creatures. Fragile. Gentle. Made by God to be sheltered from the harshness of this world..Morgan MacDonnell" Votes: 0

Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel? Votes: 0

Of all the items on the menu, soup is that which exacts the most delicate perfection and the strictest attention. Votes: 0

We have learned to express the more delicate nuances of feeling by penetrating more deeply into the mysteries of harmony. Votes: 0

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too. Votes: 0

But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation. Votes: 0

Women are delicate creatures. Fragile. Gentle. Made by God to be sheltered from the harshness of this world.. Morgan MacDonnell Votes: 0

Economy without ecology means managing the human nature relationship without knowing the delicate balance between humankind and the natural world Votes: 0

I am very strong & robust & not of the delicate sex nor of the fair but of the deficent in look ... Votes: 0

There are forces at work you do not perceive. I weave a delicate strategy which rash actions could rend. Patience , please. Votes: 0

I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them. Votes: 0

But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes. Votes: 0

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Votes: 0

To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero. Votes: 0

Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked. Votes: 0

The truth is not delicate and it does not suffer from denial—the truth only dies when true stories are untold. Votes: 0

A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . . Votes: 0

The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves. Votes: 0

Although emotionally delicate and eminently bruisable, teenagers are short on empathy. That comes later in life, if it comes at all. Votes: 0

Tender inner weaknesses, revolting at mild touches of censure, are like diseased parts of the body, recoiling before even delicate handling. Votes: 0

I smirk. There is no weird pillow talk and no pretending we're soft delicate people. No apologies, limits yes, but no shame. Votes: 0

The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship. Votes: 0

The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself. Votes: 0

In thought I am living wholly with Theo and Vincent, oh, the infinitely delicate, tender and lovely [quality] of that relation[ship]. Votes: 0

It was a spring day, the sort that gives people hope: all soft winds and delicate smells of warm earth. Suicide weather. Votes: 0

many tender, delicate mothers, seem to think that to make their children eat, is all that is requisite to make them great. Votes: 0

I myself am quite absorbed by the delicate yellow, delicate soft green, delicate violet of a ploughed and weeded piece of soil. Votes: 0

What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh. Votes: 0

Since love is the most delicate and total act of a soul, it will reflect the state and nature of the soul. Votes: 0

The human heart is so delicate and sensitive that it always needs some tangible encouragement to prevent it from faltering in its labour. Votes: 0

In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength. Votes: 0

Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements that made the city operational. Votes: 0

I work within the limits of what I have and know, simplicity and low impact, natural materials and processes, leaving a delicate footprint. Votes: 0

Pure pragmatism can't imagine a bold future. Pure idealism can't get anything done. It is the delicate blend of both that drives innovation. Votes: 0

In the right key one can say anything. In the wrong key, nothing: the only delicate part is the establishment of the key. Votes: 0

[Beauty is] a delicate bait with a deadly hook; a sweet panther with a devouring paunch, a sour poison in a silver pot. Votes: 0

Life is hard to bear: but do not affect to be so delicate! We are all of us fine sumpter asses and assesses. Votes: 0

You have to work to keep love alive; you have to protect it and maintain it, just like you would a delicate flower. Votes: 0

One of the beauties of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is the very delicate and strange relationship between the two main characters. Votes: 0

I'm still trying to change the way people see black dancers that we can become delicate dancers, that we can be a ballerina, Votes: 0

There are much better ways to handle the delicate male ego. With a two-by-four? Only as a last resort and never in public. Votes: 0

When you're dealing with killing people and things that are upsetting, that can be a delicate place to occupy yourself for a day. Votes: 0

Don't be afraid to pile on the midi rings! I like to play around with metals and pair delicate rings with chunkier ones. Votes: 0

For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way. Votes: 0

The press secretary who starts to narrow down or close the president's options because he answers delicate negotiating questions no longer serves the president. Votes: 0

A democracy depends upon people getting brighter all the time. Democracies are delicate. They're not just ipso facto and just go on and on. Votes: 0

Teamwork: I find it fascinating that a snowflake, by itself, can be so delicate; but when they team-up, they can close-down an entire city. Votes: 0

There is an innate innocence in the concious Vata personality. A delicate, sensitive, and aware nature reveals the graceful Vata component of any type. Votes: 0

The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on the air. Votes: 0

All those little congruences and arabesques you prepared with such delicate anticipatory pleasure are gobbled up as if by pigs at a pastry cart. Votes: 0

Being engulfed in practice without delicate knowledge related to it, is in many ways like entering a ship without knowing where it is headed. Votes: 0

The eye that directs a needle in the delicate meshes of embroidery will equally well bisect a star with the spiderweb of the micrometer. Votes: 0

Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In the dust where we have buried the silent races and their abominations we have buried so much of the delicate magic of life. Votes: 0

The world of nature, at once a vision of exquisite beauty and an arena of brutal savagery, is a dynamic system of delicate balances. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own. Votes: 0

It is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be in the grasp of superficially educated people. Votes: 0

In long-term relationships ... we are called upon to navigate that delicate balance between separateness and connectedness ... we confront the challenge of sustaining both--without losing either. Votes: 0

I love introverts. They don't waste words. Excessive extroverts can be very wasteful. I don't trust them in any kind of intricate or delicate matter. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I am a great foe of favoritism in public life, in private life, and even in the delicate relationship of an author to his works. Votes: 0

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other. Votes: 0

My son loves my carbonara. I've tried to master that recipe - it's very simple but very delicate. Once prepared it must be eaten quickly. Votes: 0

When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break. Votes: 0

Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Aerial perspective has nothing to do with line, but concerns tones and colours, by the delicate manipulation of which an artist can suggest infinite distance. Votes: 0

My son loves my carbonara. I've tried to master that recipe - it's very simple but very delicate. Once prepared it must be eaten quickly." Votes: 0

... the most ordinary everyday living is as delicate, as breath-taking, as difficult, takes as terrific physical and mental control and effort, as walking a tightrope. Votes: 0

From your silken hair to your delicate feet you are perfection to me. Pleasure hides love from us, but pain reveals it in its essence. Votes: 0

Every move is a creation, Maintaining the delicate balance is a creation, The line is a creation, Survival is a creation, Freedom is a creation. Votes: 0

There is no compromise when it comes to someones delicate feelings, the only way out is to stop pretending and set yourself free from someones life. Votes: 0

A picture can express a universal humanism, or simply reveal a delicate and poignant truth by exposing a slice of life that might otherwise pass unnoticed. Votes: 0

One series of notes, high and delicate, sang of a sweet moonlight kiss gone sour; another line of music rippled with regret over opportunities forever lost. Votes: 0

Find the most delicate qualities within; then treat these qualities as tiny little seeds that you would plant in your heart, with you being the gardener. Votes: 0

The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with delicate change. Votes: 0

Etching will suggest subtle variations of tone, the most delicate shadings, all with black lines, which, as far as lines go, are unsurpassed for sheer beauty. Votes: 0

A delicate, inexorable lattice of inferences began to assemble themselves, like a crystal, in the old man's mind, shivering, catching the light in glints and surmises. Votes: 0

Nothing can be more delicate without being fantastical, nothing more firm and based in nature and sentiment, than the courtship and mutual carriage of the sexes. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The dance that happens, between actor and director, is a very delicate thing...it's why people tend to work together on many films over and over. Votes: 0

Trust is a delicate idea, held up by time and togetherness. But one person slips and the whole thing shatters. Like glass. and young girls' hearts. Votes: 0

Virtue and taste are nearly the same, for virtue is little more than active taste, and the most delicate affections of each combine in real love. Votes: 0

...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... Votes: 0

...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... Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

How describe the delicate thing that happens when a brilliant insect alights on a flower? Words, with their weight, fall upon the picture like birds of prey. Votes: 0

Your questions regarding that gentleman are very delicate, very subtle, very much like being smacked in the head with a mallet...it's a tuba among the flutes. Votes: 0

She gave me eyes, she gave me ears; And humble cares, and delicate fears; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears; And love and thought and joy. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is a sad mission to cut through and destroy with the scissors of analysis the delicate and iridescent veils with which our proud mediocrity clothes itself. Votes: 0

I was shown a picture by Cézanne of a blank wall of a house, which he had made instinct with the most delicate lights and colours. Votes: 0

Horseracing and ranch horses are two different animals. You're getting race horses out and running and running them. It can be really problematic. A thoroughbred's very delicate. Votes: 0

In an age where the lowered eyelid is just a sign of fatigue, the delicate game of love is pining away. Freud and flirtation are poor companions. Votes: 0

The heart of a man's like that delicate weed, / Which requires to be trampled on, boldly indeed / Ere it gives forth the fragrance you wish to extract. Votes: 0

She was wearing the same clothes, but now she looked haggard and dirty. The delicate illusions that get us through life can only stand so much strain. Votes: 0

Pity is often a reflection of our own evils in the ills of others. It is a delicate foresight of the troubles into which we may fall. Votes: 0

What a thing it is to have music that plays your terrible thoughts. I imagined that one piece could drive more delicate women than myself to insanity. Votes: 0

Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later, delicate death. Votes: 0

There are those who, while reading a book, recall, compare, conjure up emotions from other, previous readings. This is one of the most delicate forms of adultery. Votes: 0

For in the wood these golden days Some leaf obeys its Maker's call. And through their hollow aisles it plays With delicate touch the prelude of the Fall. Votes: 0

A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean word for world is also the word for forest. Votes: 0

Now, a living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the most marvellous properties and set going by means of the most complex and delicate mechanism. Votes: 0

Infidelity is such a pretty word, so light and delicate. Whereas the act itself is dark and thick with guilt, betrayal, confusion, pain, and (okay) sometimes enormous pleasure. Votes: 0

To see Stephen Spender fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sevres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm a great observer of delicate situations and women. I really like that bygone type of movement, and for a long time I had been looking for it. Votes: 0

Young ladies should take care of themselves. Young ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of their health and their complexion. My dear, did you change your stockings? Votes: 0

Miss Lynn came around the corner of the row of lockers,glaring daggers. No, daggers would be too delicate a weapon for her.Glaring sledgehammers was probably more appropriate. Votes: 0

Elegance is something more than ease; it is more than a freedom from awkwardness or restraint. It implies, I conceive, a precision, a polish, a sparkling, spirited yet delicate. Votes: 0

But every human path leads on to God; He holds a myriad finer threads than gold, And strong as holy wishes, drawing us With delicate tension upward to Himself. Votes: 0

People from the past always seem to have much more time to create beautiful, intricate, delicate things that often reach the future in a kind of curled-up, capsized state. Votes: 0

It's a delicate thing for me, with how involved I am in social media and being a part of people's lives in a way that they want me to. Votes: 0

When a new generation watches the films, people might mention that it has improved their lovemaking. I guess it's because it isn't threatening. It was very sweet and delicate. Votes: 0

I'd like to be reincarnated as a French tart. They're so beautiful and delicate - they're like my opposite. I'm more of a comfort food: goat cheese with garlic. Votes: 0

Not everything you hear about yourself can be considered good publicity. And if you have delicate sensibilities, the currycomb of public imagination frequently rubs your vanities the wrong way. Votes: 0

Sometimes something becomes a lot better. It's like a puzzle . You can't force a round brick into a square. It's a delicate thing. You need to let the song decide. Votes: 0

I'm not the most delicate - I'm not the most graceful person, and I like playing a sport where being not delicate and not graceful is actually a good thing. Votes: 0

But I can tell - let truth be told - That love will change in growing old; Though day by day is nought to see, So delicate his motions be. Votes: 0

He who is not sage and wise, humane and just, cannot use secret agent.s. And he who is not delicate and subtle cannot get the truth out of them. Votes: 0

A noble space, unlike any other of our time, for it is both strong and delicate. It seems to call at once for a Boeing 747 and for a string quartet. Votes: 0

A good woman is the loveliest flower that blooms under heaven; and we look with love and wonder upon its silent grace, its pure fragrance, its delicate bloom of beauty. Votes: 0

The great artist is a formulation of the greatest intelligence: he is the recipient of sensations which are the most delicate and consequently the most invisible expressions of the brain. Votes: 0

The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from depths beyond 500 fathoms, where they were certainly living. Votes: 0

With Zen we do it more through slight of hand, a very subtle and delicate shift in consciousness, which shifts the world. It's kind of done from the inside out. Votes: 0

There are just two directions in life, the one which is safe but boring, and the other which is delicate but exciting. Now ask yourself, which path will you go? Votes: 0

The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from depths beyond 500 fathoms, where they were certainly living." Votes: 0

Like delicate lace, So the threads intertwine, Oh, gossamer web Of wond'rous design! Such beauty and grace Wild nature produces... Ughh, look at the spider Suck out that bug's juices! Votes: 0

Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others Votes: 0

The affected modesty of most women is a decoy for the generous, the delicate, and unsuspecting; while the artful, the bold, and unfeeling either see or break through its slender disguises. Votes: 0

The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly. Votes: 0

Oddly, in this age of the blinding white Oprah pantsuit, when everything is illuminated, it seems a Victorian lace curtain still hangs over the delicate womanly matter of our personal expenditures. Votes: 0

He raged for hours. And the skeleton, ever the frail and solelmn philosopher, hung quietly inside, saying not a word, suspended like a delicate insect within a chrysalis, waiting and waiting. Votes: 0

The guitar is the most unpredictable and least reliable musical instrument in existence...and also the sweetest, the warmest, the most delicate, whose melancholic voice awakes in our soul exquisite reveries. Votes: 0

Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted. Votes: 0

a revolutionary marriage ... [is] one in which both partners have work at the center of their lives and must find a delicate balance that can support both together and each individually. Votes: 0

Love is a delicate plant that needs constant tending and nurturing, and this cannot be done by snorting at the adored object like a gas explosion and calling her friends lice. Votes: 0

I did think reviewers were supposed to be polite about story collections - collections are rather delicate creatures in the literary environment - but not everybody got this memo, I guess. Votes: 0

There are travelers who fear to own delicate hands more than to meet a lion, and soldiers who would rather lose a limb than gain a beautiful nose by artificial methods. Votes: 0

We delight in the mere sight of the delicate glow of fading rays clinging to the surface of a dusky wall, there to live out what little life remains to them. Votes: 0

Hosting is an art form. Like acting, singing, or comedy hosting is a craft. It's a delicate dance of timing, the ability to read the room, and the art of conversation. Votes: 0

Simon: 'You know men. We have delicate egos.' Clary: 'I wouldn't describe Jace's ego as delicate.' Simon: 'No, Jace's is sort of the antiaircraft artillery tank of male egos. Votes: 0

A flawless cup: how delicate and fine The flowing curve of every jewelled line! Look, turn it up or down, 'tis perfect still-- But holds no drop of life's heart-warming wine. Votes: 0

But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait At the portcullis, at thy castle gate, Longing to see the charmed door of dreams Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep! Votes: 0

I'm quite a broad girl, not at all delicate. I watch what I eat to stay in shape, but I'm against diets. I eat when I'm hungry, three meals a day. Votes: 0

Movies either work or they don't work and they're either funny or they're not and we work very hard. To achieve that kind of work is really kind of delicate stitching. Votes: 0

When I was young I was soft spoken and a little bit timid and passive. My dream then was to be a ballerina or a figure skater - something very delicate. Votes: 0

An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften manners. It gives a delicate turn to the imagination and a polish to the mind. Votes: 0

Culture in its higher forms is a delicate plant which depends on a complicated set of conditions and is wont to flourish only in a few places at any given time. Votes: 0

It's hard to win in the NFL. You have to maintain a very delicate balance putting together the right team to be able to win and have any amount of success. Votes: 0

I think that as Christians we need to walk the delicate balance between standing in opposition to same-sex marriages and yet showing that we can do that without becoming angry or hateful. Votes: 0

The Divine Music is incessantly ringing within all of us, but the loud senses drown the delicate Music, which is unlike and infinitely superior to anything we can perceive with our senses. Votes: 0

We must imbue our children with principles of the higher-self, principles which see all people as true equals, and above all, which are sensitive to the delicate and fragile balance of life. Votes: 0

A marriage is a delicate thing, Maggie, a balance of two hearts and two hopes. Sometimes the weight's just too heavy on the one side, and the other can't lift to it. Votes: 0

We must imbue our children with principles of the higher-self, principles which see all people as true equals, and above all, which are sensitive to the delicate and fragile balance of life. Votes: 0

He (Lincoln) recognized the delicate balance between immanence and transcendence, refusing to settle for either of these alone. His was a God who was both in the world and above the world. Votes: 0

There was a time when you would have taken my heart with stake or gun. Now you have taken it with these delicate hands and the scent of your body." - Jean-Claude Votes: 0

Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed The speculating rooks at their nests cawed And saw from elm tops, delicate as flower of grass, What we below could not see, Winter pass. Votes: 0

Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people's stuff. Votes: 0

Though men of delicate taste be rare, they are easily to be distinguished in society by the soundness of their understanding, and the superiority of their faculties above the rest of mankind. Votes: 0

Even the bees I'd swear were sent to protect us in the delicate business of hives and honey are stung to silence by the news that something winged has lost its flight. Votes: 0

Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a shell? -Yeats, The Trembling of the Veil Votes: 0

Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight; With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings. Votes: 0

The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned out by the noise of everyday life. Votes: 0

Terry Farish seems to breathe the reader into the emotional spaces of war, exile, and refugee life. The Good Braider is a delicate stunning exploration of its young protagonist's life and heart. Votes: 0

A Romantic ideology that predates rock glorifies the self-destructive artist as someone who's too honest and delicate for this world... It's not an easy job, and its stresses can take their toll. Votes: 0

The images of Earth's delicate biosphere, contrasting with the sterile moonscape where the astronauts left their footsteps, have become iconic for environmentalists: these may indeed be the Apollo programme's most enduring legacy. Votes: 0

Worpswede, Worpswede, I cannot get you out of my mind... Your magnificent pine trees! I call them my men--thick, gnarled, powerful, and tall--yet with the most delicate nerves and fibers in them. Votes: 0

Comedy is a very delicate business, especially comedies that sort of attempt to do things in an honest way and in a very naturalistic way the way that 'No Strings Attached' is. Votes: 0

A gentle breeze catches in the branches then and I hear it, soft and low, a murmured prayer--Gem-ma, Gem-ma--and then the leaves bend down and trail delicate fingers across my cold cheeks. Votes: 0

Blind Willie Johnson is a pretty big vocal influence. He can be very harsh, like gargly, gruff vocals, but also just slip into some very delicate, vulnerable soft stuff. I like that combination. Votes: 0

The finest and healthiest thing about science is, as in the mountains, the brisk air blowing around in it.--The spiritually delicate (such as artists) shun and slander science owing to this air. Votes: 0

Be as delicate as possible. If communication accomplishes something on the gross but damages something on the level of feeling then it is a spiritual loss! The feeling is more important for life. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity. Votes: 0

At first Babel longed for the use of just two words: Yes and No. But he knew that just to utter a single word would be to destroy the delicate fluency of silence. Votes: 0

Survival is an art. It requires the dulling of the mind and the senses, and a delicate attunement to waiting, without insisting on precision about just what it is you are waiting for. Votes: 0

The Spring is here--the delicate footed May, With its slight fingers full of leaves and flowers, And with it comes a thirst to be away. In lovelier scenes to pass these sweeter hours. Votes: 0

I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner. Votes: 0

I don't really find girls to be any more dramatic or delicate than boys; I've known plenty of little boys who've had miserable breakdowns over things... in fact, I was one of them! Votes: 0

Past conference topics have included strengthening the role of fathers in children's lives, the impact of the media culture on children, the delicate balance between work and family, and family involvement in education. Votes: 0

Past conference topics have included strengthening the role of fathers in children's lives, the impact of the media culture on children, the delicate balance between work and family, and family involvement in education." Votes: 0

I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it. Votes: 0

Politics is a delicate business. I understand that well. But if a party is not willing to stand up for what is right, does it deserve to win back control of the government? Votes: 0

It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of teaching have not yet entirely strangled that sacred spirit of curiosity and inquiry, for this delicate plant needs freedom no less than stimulation. Votes: 0

There is in youth a purity of character which, when once touched and defiled, can never be restored; a fringe more delicate than frost-work, and which, when torn and broken, can never be re-embroidered. Votes: 0

Please, Lord Maccon, use one of the cups. My delicate sensibilities." The earl actually snorted. "My dear Miss Tarabotti, if you possessed any such things, you certainly have never shown them to me. Votes: 0

I don't expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep through human veins, bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses... Votes: 0

My golf is so delicate, so tenuously wired together with silent inward prayers, exhortations and unstable visualizations, that the sheer pressure of an additional pair of eyes crumbles the whole rickety structure into rubble. Votes: 0

There are hopes, the bloom of whose beauty would be spoiled by the trammels of description; too lovely, too delicate, too sacred for words, they should only be known through the sympathy of hearts. Votes: 0

It's my intention to make something stand outside the realm of album art, but it also feels comfortable to me to be in it. It's tricky and definitely a requires striking a delicate balance. Votes: 0

Through the 13th century, paintings of Angels exhibit a predominantly masculine appearance. Over the next 300 years, their images become more delicate, gentle, and feminine, until Angels are shown as androgynous or even distinctly female. Votes: 0

I know it is a somewhat delicate matter to refuse a gift, but in this case the statue is so atrocious that every endeavour should be made to keep it out of the church. Votes: 0

To make fun of a person to his face is a brutal way of amusing one's self; be delicate and cunning, and keep your laugh in your sleeve, lest you frighten away your game. Votes: 0

A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing; it doesn't protect itself and it doesn't hide. It stands out, like a baby's fontanel, where you can see the soul pulse through. Votes: 0

I know men are delicate origami creatures who need women to unfold them, hold them when they cry. But I am tired of being your savior and I am tired of telling you why. Votes: 0

The Word of Wisdom does not promise you perfect health, but it teaches how to keep the body you were born with in the best condition and your mind alert to delicate spiritual promptings. Votes: 0

The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is conscious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and a coarse one. Even a dog feels a difference in her presence. Votes: 0

The human organism inherits so delicate an adjustment to climate that, in spite of man's boasted ability to live anywhere, the strain of the frozen North eliminates the more nervous and active types of mind. Votes: 0

When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension. Votes: 0

In this world we are in precarious position, balanced midway between material and spiritual hungers. We find heaven to be a delicate state of consciousness that can be lost in a single moment of forgetfulness. Votes: 0

Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force. Votes: 0

It is quite true that women like courage, and that boldness often goes a long way; but it is questionable whether with high-bred natures a subdued, quiet, and delicate manner does not go still further. Votes: 0

As people we narrowly get by with our lives each day, energy from our soft, delicate actions appearing like cherry blossoms, only once, and once for a short while. Eventually petals fall to the ground. Votes: 0

An accident, a random change, in any delicate mechanism can hardly be expected to improve it. Poking a stick into the machinery of one's watch or one's radio set will seldom make it work better. Votes: 0

If our children were to grow up truthful they much be taught by those who had a regard for truth; and not just a casual regard, a delicate regard. On this point we were adamant. Votes: 0

If, for example, a conspiratorially minded elite is so powerful, has at its fingertips such multiple and delicate instruments with which to fine-tune accumulation, then how can the periodic headlong slides into crisis be explained? Votes: 0

A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture. We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments, our delicate entertainments of poetry and philosophy, in the work of our hands. Votes: 0