Cardinal Giovanni still did not like delicate matters…

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

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

“Getting a taste of what you long for is usually more painful than just going hungry.”

— Leigh Newman

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

— John C. Maxwell

The witnessing of titanic events is always dangerous, usually painful, and often fatal.

— Larry Niven

Preserving the serious health condition is usually painful.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Not all scars are visible. Regardless, they are usually painful when you first get them. But with time they might fade or they can…

— José N. Harris

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

— Edmond Rostand

Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the…

— Howard Staunton

I hope the day will come when a wasp-waist and a pair of thin shoulders will not be esteemed beauty: we have had our…

— Julia McNair Wright

Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over…

— Homer

Tachyon OPC+ is a natural extension of our market-winning Tachyon platform, giving customers a clear path to minimizing the OPC error budget and producing…

— Bill Vaughan

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

— Jeffrey Wright

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.…

— John Dyer Baizley

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

— Jenna Morasca

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

— Melissa Marr