Delicate Quotes
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.
Giorgio Agamben is possibly the most delicate and probing thinker since Walter Benjamin.
Curiosity is a delicate little plant that, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom.
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.
I’ll have you know that the most delicate flowers often produce the strongest scent when crushed.
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.
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.
When you're dealing with killing people and things that are upsetting, that can be a delicate place to occupy yourself for a day.
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.
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!
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.
The more delicate and ambitious the soul, the further do dreams estrange it from possible things.
In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation.
Since love is the most delicate and total act of a soul, it will reflect the state and nature of the soul.
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.
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.
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.
The flowers were so beautiful, so delicate and unthreatening, but they choked everything around them.
In the right key one can say anything. In the wrong key, nothing: the only delicate part is the establishment of the key.
You have to work to keep love alive; you have to protect it and maintain it, just like you would a delicate flower.
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.
It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
There is an innate innocence in the concious Vata personality. A delicate, sensitive, and aware nature reveals the graceful Vata component of any type.
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.
The transition from the defensive to the offensive is one of the most delicate operations in war.
Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.
We have learned to express the more delicate nuances of feeling by penetrating more deeply into the mysteries of harmony.
Like delicate lace, so the threads intertwine, oh, gossamer web of wond'rous design! Such beauty and grace wild nature produces... Ughh, look at that spider suck out that bug's juices!
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.
The curse of marriage That we can call these delicate creatures ours And not their appetites!
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.
The human heart is so delicate and sensitive that it always needs some tangible encouragement to prevent it from faltering in its labour.
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.
Being engulfed in practice without delicate knowledge related to it, is in many ways like entering a ship without knowing where it is headed.
To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.
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.
Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.
Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells...Easy to crush.
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.