Delicate Quotes

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In the end, science as we know it has two basic types of practitioners. One is the educated man who still has a controlled sense… — Loren Eiseley
The great artist is a formulation of the greatest intelligence: he is the recipient of sensations which are the most delicate and consequently the most… — Paul Gauguin
One of the things called forth by the Imagist movement in poetry was neatness; and when we say keenness, we mean neatness. A knife that… — Eli Siegel
Be as delicate as possible. If communication accomplishes something on the gross but damages something on the level of feeling then it is a spiritual… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
I spent more hours than I can count a quiet witness to the highly mannered, manifold expressions of life that grace our planet. It is… — Yann Martel
Try to do ugly things so that you make them beautiful... The more delicate the thing is in nature the more one must look for… — Charles Webster Hawthorne
There can be no question of selecting in any direction, but of penetrating the whole cosmic law of rhythms, forces and material that are the… — Asger Jorn
Aerial perspective has nothing to do with line, but concerns tones and colours, by the delicate manipulation of which an artist can suggest infinite distance. — Walter J. Phillips
Etching will suggest subtle variations of tone, the most delicate shadings, all with black lines, which, as far as lines go, are unsurpassed for sheer… — Walter J. Phillips
The pursuit of art is a delicate balance between influence and self-assertiveness. As self-realized artists, we all have different levels of tolerance for this mystery.… — Robert Genn
The transition from the defensive to the offensive is one of the most delicate operations in war. — Napoleon Bonaparte
It is not the delicate neurotic person who is prone to angina, but the robust, the vigorous in mind and body, the keen and ambitious… — William Osler
The eye that directs a needle in the delicate meshes of embroidery will equally well bisect a star with the spiderweb of the micrometer. — Maria Mitchell
The groves and thickets of smaller trees are full of blooming evergreen vines. These vines are not arranged in separate groups, or in delicate wreaths,… — John Muir
...a pie so delicate, so luscious, that I hope to be propped up on my dying bed and fed a generous portion. Then I think… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate,… — Bayard Taylor
With Zen we do it more through slight of hand, a very subtle and delicate shift in consciousness, which shifts the world. It's kind of… — Frederick Lenz
Even today many educated people think that the victory of Christianity over Greek philosophy is a proof of the superior truth of the former -… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I think that as Christians we need to walk the delicate balance between standing in opposition to same-sex marriages and yet showing that we can… — Erwin W. Lutzer
Comedy is a very delicate business, especially comedies that sort of attempt to do things in an honest way and in a very naturalistic way… — Ivan Reitman

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