Delicate Quotes - Page 2

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

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

Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!

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.

The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.

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.

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

...a pie so delicate, so luscious, that I hope to be propped up on my dying bed and fed a generous portion. Then I think that I should refuse outright to die, for life would be too good to relinquish.

It isn't ever delicate to live.

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.

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

Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts

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

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 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.

The horror genre is an extremely delicate thing. You can talk to filmmakers and even psychologists who've studied the genre, and even they don't understand what works or what doesn't work. More importantly, they don't understand why it works when it works.

Oatcakes are a delicate relish when eaten warm with ale.

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.

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

It was the tenderness mingled with melancholy which we bring to a time that belongs irrevocably to the past, when a pale, delicate shadow rises from it bearing the lilies of the dead, and in it we find a forgotten likeness to ourselves. And that faint, wistful shadow, that pale scent, seemed to vanish away into a wide, full, warm stream - the life that now lay open before him.

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

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.

The rare, delicate flavor of a life after retiring in one's sixties, whatever one has "retired" from, the pleasure I experienced beyond my job at Columbia, is a gift of life in the last decades. but it is not easily learned. . . . But sometimes, the only way to live is to get out, or at least seriously to contemplate getting out, doing the impossible,flinging the conventional tea.

He gave me a look of great contempt; as I supposed, for venturing, even by implication, to draw a parallel between a lack of affluence that might, literally, affect my purchase of rare vintages, and a figure of speech intended delicately to convey his own dire want for the bare necessities of life. He remained silent for several seconds, as if trying to make up his mind whether he could ever bring himself to speak to me again; and then said gruffly: 'I've got to go now.'

O most delicate fiend! Who is't can read a woman? Is there more?