Delicate Quotes · Page 8

These commonplace categories - wife, mother, housewife, teacher - are in fact teleological referents. They gesture to profound states of being that…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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

Men of the most robust make, observe that in looking upon sore eyes they often feel a very sensible soreness in their…

— Adam Smith

The northern ocean is beautiful, ... and beautiful the delicate intricacy of the snowflake before it melts and perishes, but such beauties…

— John Lighton Synge

What appears in the pictures was the subject's decision, not mine. I took what they presented - delicate moments - unadorned and…

— Ray Metzker

Every green herb, from the lotus to the darnel, is rich with delicate aids to help incurious man.

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

The truth is not delicate and it does not suffer from denial—the truth only dies when true stories are untold.

— Ken Liu

Now, a living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the most marvellous properties and set going by means of…

— Claude Bernard

The press and politicians. A delicate relationship. Too close, and danger ensues. Too far apart and democracy itself cannot function without the…

— Howard Brenton

Similarly the men who produce works of genius are not those who live in the most delicate atmosphere, whose conversation is most…

— Marcel Proust

“When he appeared before the lord, his lordship was smitten immediately with the boy's unadorned beauty, like a first glimpse of the…

— Saikaku Ihara

The profession of magician, is one of the most perilous and arduous specializations of the imagination. On the one hand there is…

— William Bolitho

The delicate droop of the petals standing out in relief, is like the eyelid of a child.

— Auguste Rodin

What troubles me about the "hostile workplace" category of sexual harassment policy is that women are being returned to their old status…

— Camille Paglia

“They could see she was a real Princess and no question about it, now that she had felt one pea all the…

— Hans Christian Andersen

Actually caffeine is too hard on my system. I'm a delicate boy from Plano, Texas.

— John Benjamin Hickey

Whoever declares a child to be "delicate" thereby crowns and anoints a tyrant.

— Robertson Davies

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by…

— Charles Bowers

If, for example, a conspiratorially minded elite is so powerful, has at its fingertips such multiple and delicate instruments with which to…

— David Harvey

It is sweet to dance to violins When love and life are fair: To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is…

— Oscar Wilde

The Earth would only have to move a few million kilometers sunward-or starward-for the delicate balance of climate to be destroyed. The…

— Arthur C. Clarke

The press secretary who starts to narrow down or close the president's options because he answers delicate negotiating questions no longer serves…

— Ari Fleischer

The images of Earth's delicate biosphere, contrasting with the sterile moonscape where the astronauts left their footsteps, have become iconic for environmentalists:…

— Martin Rees

For the love of ammonites, man! That's just stupid. Why on earth would the Society need to protect unmarried women from bone-dry…

— Tessa Dare

a revolutionary marriage ... [is] one in which both partners have work at the center of their lives and must find a…

— Carolyn Heilbrun