Delicate Quotes

575 quotes by 492 authors

Hope is delicate suffering. — Amiri Baraka
To make fun of a person to his face is a brutal way of amusing one's self; be delicate and cunning, and keep your laugh… — Gelett Burgess
It's been important to me to be a good activist, a good thinker, a good musician, a good singer, and a good entertainer. You can't… — Holly Near
The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge… — George Stigler
Psychic beings are childlike, delicate and easily destroyed. — Frederick Lenz
One of the beauties of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is the very delicate and strange relationship between the two main characters. — Stellan Skarsgard
Since love is the most delicate and total act of a soul, it will reflect the state and nature of the soul. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Many Canadian nationalists harbour the bizarre fear that should we ever reject royalty, we would instantly mutate into Americans, as though the Canadian sense of… — Will Ferguson
Plants, in a state of nature, are always warring with one another, contending for the monopoly of the soil,-the stronger ejecting the weaker,-the more vigorous… — Joseph Dalton Hooker
All the inventions and devices ever constructed by the human hand or conceived by the human mind, no matter how delicate, how intricate and complicated,… — John Harvey Kellogg
If we deny our awesome challenge; turn our backs on the living universe, and forsake our cosmic destiny, we will commit a crime of unutterable… — Marshall Savage
I know men are delicate origami creatures who need women to unfold them, hold them when they cry. But I am tired of being your… — Ani DiFranco
It's hard to win in the NFL. You have to maintain a very delicate balance putting together the right team to be able to win… — Barry Sanders
Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on… — Quentin Crisp
Mind is a most delicate evidence. Not a soul has seen it yet. — Richard Eberhart
The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves. — Catharine Beecher
I'm not the most delicate - I'm not the most graceful person, and I like playing a sport where being not delicate and not graceful… — Mary McCormack
Movies either work or they don't work and they're either funny or they're not and we work very hard. To achieve that kind of work… — Ivan Reitman
Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it.… — Patrick Dempsey
The press secretary who starts to narrow down or close the president's options because he answers delicate negotiating questions no longer serves the president. — Ari Fleischer

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