If theory is the role of the architect, then such beautiful proofs are the role of the craftsman. Of course, as with… — Michael Atiyah Copy Share Image
The morning stars sang together. And a person of delicate ear and nice judgment discussed the singing at length, and showed how… — Thomas William Hodgson Crosland Copy Share Image
It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be… — Ben Nelson Copy Share Image
My complexion is delicate, so I have to use things that won't irritate it. I switch moisturisers often. — Gisele Bundchen Copy Share Image
Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
It's worth living abroad to study up on genteel and delicate manners. The maid smiles continuously; she smiles like a duchess on… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The heart of a man's like that delicate weed, / Which requires to be trampled on, boldly indeed / Ere it gives… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I seem to be a brief light that flashes but once in all the aeons of time a rare, complicated, and all-too-delicate… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Civilization has ceased to be that delicate flower which was preserved and painstakingly cultivated in one or two sheltered areas of a… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book… — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
Paint records the most delicate gesture and the most tense. It tells whether the painter sat or stood or crouched in front… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
Even today many educated people think that the victory of Christianity over Greek philosophy is a proof of the superior truth of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You can be fully satisfied with where you are, understanding that you're eternally evolving. When you get into that place of feeling… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
There is in youth a purity of character which, when once touched and defiled, can never be restored; a fringe more delicate… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Without silence, there cannot be any real appreciation in life, which is as delicate in its inner fabric as a closed rosebud. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
To avoid a split between what men consciously know because they are aware of having learned it by a specific job of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Young girls are told you have to be the delicate princess. Hermione taught them that you can be the warrior. — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
Giorgio Agamben is possibly the most delicate and probing thinker since Walter Benjamin. — Avital Ronell Copy Share Image
What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from.' — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
[On John Tunnard:] One day a marvelous man in a highly elaborate tweed coat walked into the gallery. He looked a little… — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image
As for me, I know nothing else but miracles, Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, Or dart my sight over the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Of course it hurt that we could never love each other in a physical way. We would have been far more happy… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image