Delicate Quotes

575 quotes by 492 authors

Bonnie who had never hurt a - a harmless thing for malice. Bonnie who was like a kitten making airy pounces at no prey at… — L. J. Smith
When I compare life to a dream I do not mean to denigrate it as some sort of meaningless fantasy. Life is too wonderful to… — Timothy Freke
He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions and… — Oscar Wilde
SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more… — Ambrose Bierce
We do not know what we can bear until we are put to the test. Many a delicate mother, who thought that she could not… — Orison Swett Marden
Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later,… — Walt Whitman
No vegetarian has been able to achieve a single Nobel prize. It is a clear-cut condemnation of vegetarianism. Why do all the Nobel prizes go… — Rajneesh
I was shown a picture by CÃ©zanne of a blank wall of a house, which he had made instinct with the most delicate lights and… — Winston Churchill
It is possible for a mathematician to be "too strong" for a given occasion. He forces through, where another might be driven to a different,… — John Edensor Littlewood
For I cannot think that GOD Almighty ever made them [women] so delicate, so glorious creatures; and furnished them with such charms, so agreeable and… — Daniel Defoe
Rather than admire the mediocre great men over whom passersby nudge each other in awe, I venerate the young, unknown geniuses who die in their… — Knut Hamsun
I myself am quite absorbed by the delicate yellow, delicate soft green, delicate violet of a ploughed and weeded piece of soil. — Vincent Van Gogh
An opening statement is like a guide or a road map. It's a very delicate thing. — Johnnie Cochran
If theory is the role of the architect, then such beautiful proofs are the role of the craftsman. Of course, as with the great renaissance… — Michael Atiyah
The Besicovitch style is architectural. He builds out of simply elements a delicate and complicated architectural structure, usually with a hierarchical plan, and then, when… — Freeman Dyson
Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of… — David K. Shipler
Judgment is a delicate thing and does not come overnight. — Peter Woo
I'm still trying to change the way people see black dancers that we can become delicate dancers, that we can be a ballerina, — Michaela DePrince
Recasting fairy tales has become a publishing sub-genre in itself, and has been done both well and to the point of entropy. More interesting are… — Graham Joyce
When you work with kids, people tell you to be very delicate, but that's the last thing you should do with kids. They feel patronized… — Alfonso Cuaron

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