Delicate Quotes

575 quotes by 492 authors

Economy without ecology means managing the human nature relationship without knowing the delicate balance between humankind and the natural world — Satish Kumar
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and… — Charles Bowers
In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality. At times monstrous images are created,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
... life is moral responsibility. Life is several other things, we do not deny. It is beauty, it is joy, it is tragedy, it is… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language… — Raymond Chandler
It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which lives by delicate… — D. H. Lawrence
Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty, of honor, grace, courtesy, delicate feeling. Where imponderables,… — Edith Hamilton
The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the… — Charles Baudelaire
As we got further and further away, it [the Earth] dimished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful… — James Irwin
... he preferred his own madness, to the regular sanity. He rejoiced in his own madness, he was free. He did not want that old… — D. H. Lawrence
Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared… — Samuel Johnson
In this world we are in precarious position, balanced midway between material and spiritual hungers. We find heaven to be a delicate state of consciousness… — Harold Klemp
Snow always inspires such awe in me. Just consider one tiny snowflake alone, so delicate, so fragile, so ethereal. And yet, let a billion of… — Betty White
Peter Sellers was great to work with. A lovely man. A little bit crazy in that he - you know, as I say, it was… — Goldie Hawn
What I might do is watch Mrs Doubtfire. Or Dead Poets Society or Good Will Hunting and I might be nice to people, mindful today… — Russell Brand
To learn your artistry and to be able to perfect that, is overwhelming. Especially when you are exuding love. The human emotion is a very… — Whitney Houston
I always try and mix High Street finds into my looks. It really doesn't matter how much something costs, it's the way you wear it!… — Cat Deeley
Kate Bernheimer's fiction offers a unique and delicate gift, the tempting mirage of a grace that constantly escapes. The Complete Tales of Merry Gold is… — Lydia Millet
Colored lights shone right across the northern sky, leaping and flaring, spreading in rainbow hues from horizon to zenith: blood red to rose pink, saffron… — Celia Rees
A picture can express a universal humanism, or simply reveal a delicate and poignant truth by exposing a slice of life that might otherwise pass… — Steve McCurry

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