Delicate Quotes

575 quotes by 492 authors

The press and politicians. A delicate relationship. Too close, and danger ensues. Too far apart and democracy itself cannot function without the essential exchange of… — Howard Brenton
There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a… — Gregory Benford
A good woman is the loveliest flower that blooms under heaven; and we look with love and wonder upon its silent grace, its pure fragrance,… — William Makepeace Thackeray
Tender inner weaknesses, revolting at mild touches of censure, are like diseased parts of the body, recoiling before even delicate handling. — Sri Yukteswar Giri
Child of woe is wane and delicate... sensitive and on the quiet side, she loves the picnics and outings to the underground caverns... a solemn… — Charles Addams
Some men find happiness in gluttony and in drunkenness, but no delicate viands can touch their taste with the thrill of pleasure, and what generosity… — Edwin Percy Whipple
This planet is not terra firma. It is a delicate flower and it must be cared for. It's lonely. It's small. It's isolated, and there… — Scott Carpenter
It is a sad mission to cut through and destroy with the scissors of analysis the delicate and iridescent veils with which our proud mediocrity… — Cesare Lombroso
I wonder why men get serious at all. They have this delicate, long thing hanging outside their bodies which goes up and down by its… — Yoko Ono
This is education, understood as a help to life; an education from birth, which feeds a peaceful revolution and unites all in a common aim,… — Maria Montessori
An accident, a random change, in any delicate mechanism can hardly be expected to improve it. Poking a stick into the machinery of one's watch… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
That most sensitive, most delicate of instruments -- the mind of a little child! — Henry Handel Richardson
I had eventually come to understand that friendship was a delicate, gradual process that mustnâ€™t be rushed or seized upon but allowed and encouraged to… — Daniel Tammet
My task is becoming more and more delicate, while the difficulties increase constantly. — Jean Moulin
I want to put a soul in a garment. I don't want my clothes to be perfect, because human beings are not perfect. You can… — Ann Demeulemeester
You have yearned to have my affection cloak your delicate spirit, accept the pretense of my craving to consume your soul as a symptom of… — Philip the Apostle
Thus metaphysics and mathematics are, among all the sciences that belong to reason, those in which imagination has the greatest role. I beg pardon of… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert
This planet is not terra firma. It is a delicate flower and it must be cared for. It's lonely. It's small. It's isolated, and there… — Scott Carpenter
Find the most delicate qualities within; then treat these qualities as tiny little seeds that you would plant in your heart, with you being the… — John de Ruiter
The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned… — Robert B. Laughlin

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