I want you to have this.” He extended his hand. On his palm sat the beautiful butterfly he had carved. Silver spots… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
People of delicate health, selfish dispositions, and coarse minds, can always bear the sufferings of others placidly. — Isabel Burton Copy Share Image
Capoeira was designed to look like a dance, and it's actually an incredibly effective means of fighting. Fighting is dancing. Look at… — David Lyons Copy Share Image
I like the collarbone, a very clean collarbone. I think there's something also very delicate and balletic about that part of a… — Gugu Mbatha-Raw Copy Share Image
Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet's work, but never yea to his hope. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
the State only aims at instilling those qualities in its public by which its demands are obeyed, and its exchequer is filled.… — Ouida Copy Share Image
It was the tenderness mingled with melancholy which we bring to a time that belongs irrevocably to the past, when a pale,… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
The human organism inherits so delicate an adjustment to climate that, in spite of man's boasted ability to live anywhere, the strain… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, & you believe you are living. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I love bats! Women are scared of them. They think bats can get caught in their hair, don't they? But bats are… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should judge, than… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Friendship is far more delicate than love. Quarrels and fretful complaints are attractive in the last, offensive in the first. And the… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
I tried singing in a deeper voice by lowering my voice that used to be more delicate. — Seungri Copy Share Image
I can watch elephants (and elephants alone) for hours at a time, for sooner or later the elephant will do something very… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
To see Stephen Spender fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sevres vase… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I believe every editor should stand to edit. That's just my particular soapbox. Some things are so delicate and depend on such… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
When I was young I was soft spoken and a little bit timid and passive. My dream then was to be a… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
“Beauty is a hard thing. Beauty is a mean story. Beauty is slender girls who die young, fine-featured delicate creatures about whom… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate. — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
