Delicate Quotes
575 quotes by 492 authors
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All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories,…
— Diane Ackerman
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The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I defended myself against…
— Teresa of Avila
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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
— Max Beerbohm
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Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so remote as to be forgotten.…
— Annie Besant
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It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
— Josh Billings
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People take the mickey out of mental health, but it is very delicate.
— Frank Bruno
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To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us will…
— Alex Faickney Osborn
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To say prayers in a decent, delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really, to pray till hell feels the ponderous stroke, to…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Thou ever young, fresh, lov'd, and delicate wooer, whose blush doth thaw the consecrated snow
— William Shakespeare
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Curiosity is a delicate little plant that, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom.
— Albert Einstein
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You can be fully satisfied with where you are, understanding that you're eternally evolving. When you get into that place of feeling appreciation of where…
— Esther Hicks
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I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
— Samuel Johnson
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The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to…
— Madame de Stael
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The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
— Ovid
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If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to cultivate the delicate…
— Wilfred Trotter
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Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should judge, than the dome of…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Earth would only have to move a few million kilometers sunward-or starward-for the delicate balance of climate to be destroyed. The Antarctic icecap would…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Similarly the men who produce works of genius are not those who live in the most delicate atmosphere, whose conversation is most brilliant, or their…
— Marcel Proust
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