Fragrance, whether strong or delicate, is a highly subjective matter, and one gardener's perfume is another gardener's stink. — Katharine Sergeant Angell White Copy Share Image
“Everything about her is petite and delicate and fragile, which is why I can never unleash my inner beast with her. I’d… — M.S. Force Copy Share Image
Success is the result of a delicate balance between making things happen and letting things happen. — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
Of all the items on the menu, soup is that which exacts the most delicate perfection and the strictest attention. — Auguste Escoffier Copy Share Image
Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The pigeon here is a beautiful bird, of a delicate bronze colour, tinged with pink about the neck, and the wings marked… — William John Wills Copy Share Image
In language at once stark and delicate, Suki Kim shatters the polemic of North and South Korea. She couples an investigative reporter's… — Monique Truong Copy Share Image
A delicate fabric of bird song Floats in the air, The smell of wet wild earth Is everywhere. Oh I must pass… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
It is quite true that women like courage, and that boldness often goes a long way; but it is questionable whether with… — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image
Men of the most robust make, observe that in looking upon sore eyes they often feel a very sensible soreness in their… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
One thing that attracts me in Daoism and Heidegger is a delicate combination of recognizing deep differences between human being and any… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
“Something bloomed right then and there in the small dark space between us. I didn’t know what it was, but I knew… — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share Image
“His voice a rhythm like rain, words rolling over themselves... “You are distinguished from the leaves by the shape of your eyes.… — Debi Cimo Copy Share Image
Worpswede, Worpswede, I cannot get you out of my mind... Your magnificent pine trees! I call them my men--thick, gnarled, powerful, and… — Paula Modersohn-Becker Copy Share Image
Some recent occurrences such as the BSE disaster and even perhaps - dare I mention it - the present severe weather conditions… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
It skims in through the eye, and by means of the utterly delicate retina hurls shadows like insect legs inward for translation.… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The original meaning of the word tact referred to the sense of touch (as in 'tactile'), and came to mean skill in… — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
I think anorexia is a metaphor. It is a young woman's statement that she will become what the culture asks of its… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
The groves and thickets of smaller trees are full of blooming evergreen vines. These vines are not arranged in separate groups, or… — John Muir Copy Share Image
In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Ho, Ho, Sir Surgeon. You are too delicate to tell the man that he is ill. You hope to heal the sick… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Compassion allows us to use our own pain and the pain of others as a vehicle for connection. This is a delicate… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be very delicate, but my thing was power. Then I realised I could use that power to jump… — Michaela DePrince Copy Share Image
“The dark silhouette of a forgotten rose in a forbidden garden of love; what kind of delicate fragrance of forgiveness it seems… — Laura Chouette Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid to pile on the midi rings! I like to play around with metals and pair delicate rings with chunkier… — Ashley Madekwe Copy Share Image
Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel? — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
She was wearing the same clothes, but now she looked haggard and dirty. The delicate illusions that get us through life can… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Hosting is an art form. Like acting, singing, or comedy hosting is a craft. It's a delicate dance of timing, the ability… — Todd Newton Copy Share Image
Curiosity is a delicate little plant that, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A picture can express a universal humanism, or simply reveal a delicate and poignant truth by exposing a slice of life that… — Steve McCurry Copy Share Image
The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute. — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean word for world… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I'm not the most delicate - I'm not the most graceful person, and I like playing a sport where being not delicate… — Mary McCormack Copy Share Image
Like delicate lace, So the threads intertwine, Oh, gossamer web Of wond'rous design! Such beauty and grace Wild nature produces... Ughh, look… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes-each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hands. — Sharon M. Draper Copy Share Image
I am a great foe of favoritism in public life, in private life, and even in the delicate relationship of an author… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate… — Robert B. Laughlin Copy Share Image
