The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such… — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
I assure you very explicitly, that in my opinion the conscientious scruples of all men should be treated with great delicacy and… — George Washington Copy Share Image
But above everything, drink wines with love. They are like women - different, mysterious, fickle. And each wine has to be taken… — Luigi Veronelli Copy Share Image
For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
War makes men barbarous because, to take part in it, one must harden oneself against all regret, all appreciation of delicacy and… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
The retriever took each bit of meat from his master's hand with a delicacy almost equal to that of a hummingbird sipping… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in… — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Heavens, how charming it is! There is now in the sky only the soft vaporous color of pale citron - the last… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Copy Share Image
It is the property of the religious spirit to be the most refining of all influences. No external advantages, no culture of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sin spoils the spirit's delicacy, and unwillingness deadens its susceptibility. — Charles Henry Parkhurst Copy Share Image
Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding. — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
[French] authors are more afraid of offending delicacy and rules, than ambitious of sublimity. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Fashionable dances as now carried on are revolting to every feeling of delicacy and propriety and are fraught with the greatest danger… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Sex contains all, Bodies, Souls, meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations, Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the seminal milk; All… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Flowers and fruit are never combined in one place: it is impossible that teeth and delicacies should exist simultaneously. — Saib Tabrizi Copy Share Image
The Irish landowner, partly from laziness but also from an indifferent delicacy, does not interfere in the lives of the people round.… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
My mom makes something called green pie, which I thought was a delicacy that many people only had at Thanksgiving, but it… — Bobby Moynihan Copy Share Image
Let passion reach a catastrophe and it submits us to an intoxicating force far more powerful than the niggardly irritation of wine… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on Earth! I care not if I never raise my voice again for… — Jim Elliot Copy Share Image
The sensuality, delicacy of literature does not exist for me; only the passion, energy and struggle… Most of my friends deplore this:… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
Like most qualities, cuteness is delineated by what it isn't. Most people aren't cute at all, or if so they quickly outgrow… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
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