Delicate Quotes

575 quotes by 492 authors

Prayer is a fine, delicate instrument. To use it right is a great art, a holy art. There is perhaps no greater art than the… — Ole Hallesby
If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences, they would learn as thoroughly… — Christine de Pizan
I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing… — Edward Mills Purcell
No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is only with your own… — Ayn Rand
It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of teaching have not yet entirely strangled that sacred spirit of curiosity and inquiry, for… — Albert Einstein
I am quite reactionary about Aussies travelling. Why, we've only been here a hundred years. What can be added by going before we are here?… — Joy Hester
By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or memorable phrase of the mind itself.… — James Joyce
Civilization has ceased to be that delicate flower which was preserved and painstakingly cultivated in one or two sheltered areas of a soil rich in… — Claude Levi-Strauss
How delicate her feet who shuns the ground, Stepping a-tiptoe on the heads of men. — Homer
Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck. — Bobby Fischer
Man, when living, is soft and tender; when dead, he is hard and tough. All animals and plants when living are tender and delicate; when… — Laozi
The flavor of wine is like delicate poetry. — Louis Pasteur
For all parts of the body that we see fit to expose to the wind and air are found fit to endure it: face, feet,… — Michel de Montaigne
Increasingly, the balance between living in the world and not being of the world is becoming more delicate. Publications, radio, television, and the Internet have… — L. Tom Perry
Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power. — Milton Friedman
All it has experienced, tasted, suffered: The course of years, generations of animals, Oppression, recovery, friendship of sun and - Wind Will pour forth each… — Hermann Hesse
A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing; it doesn't protect itself and it doesn't hide. It stands out, like a baby's… — Anne Lamott
There is a delicate balance that we need to honor as we try to find meaning in any event or state of mind: Many people… — Stephen Levine
Suddenly, from behind the rim of the moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white jewel, a light,… — Edgar Mitchell
My soul gave me good counsel, teaching me to love. Love was for me a delicate thread stretched between two adjacent pegs, but now it… — Rumi

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