Quotes About Delicate

I find at moments I'm as fragile as glass.

Over the years, Marius guarded his delicate rationality as a Vestal Virgin guards a sacred flame.

He could see those two tall delicate women and their arms entangled, the one struggling but not enough and the other pressuring for the deed to the accompanied.

She pulled away, his grip no stronger than the strands of a spider web.

There is such solace in the mere sight of water. It clothes us delicately in its blowing salt and scent, gossamer items that medicate the poor soul

Tender creatures, these aristocrats. Who would have guessed?

Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes-each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hands.

One series of notes, high and delicate, sang of a sweet moonlight kiss gone sour; another line of music rippled with regret over opportunities forever lost.

He smiled as Will handled the flask gingerly. 'there's a glass bottle inside,but it's padded with straw and protected by the leather covering. It's quite safe. Just be careful how you handle it.

Now she looked offended. "What do you take me for?" "Let us pass over that question in a delicate moment.

Let us beware: nothing is so delicate and so sacred as the human soul; nothing is so quickly bruised. Let each one of our words and deeds contain a principle of life that, penetrating other spirits, will communicate light and strength and will reveal God to them.

I was struck, and not for the first time, by how much easier it is to ruin an ecosystem than to run one.

I had loved Portland. It was a clean city, with weather so delicate that at night you had to look at the streetlights to tell whether it was raining or snowing. Everything was heavier near Boston: air, accents, women.

Little Alice, all hollowed out, so easy to smash into a million little pieces.

a thin white hand, a strip of poured milk in the dim light.

The alpine environment is very delicate. I've been able to see change in the mountains in the 20 years that I've been climbing full-time. Glaciers have receded. The tree-line is changing. That's very rapid to see nature changing in a 20-year period.

Brain surgery is a fairly aggressive process. There's a lot to get through. There's the beautiful, delicate shaving first, which is really lovely. There's a wonderful ceremony of putting all the covers on, so only the little bit you're operating on is revealed. But once they make the incision and tear the skin back, the drill comes out.

I've worked with multiple directors throughout the 'Saw' series with a lot of conversations as they bring their particular installment to the screen. If I've been able to do anything throughout the course of these films, it's been to help shape dialogue and to try to make things as delicate and as intelligent as I can.

You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother's womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it. PSALM 139:13-14,

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 with the misery of others

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

and on a soft bed delicate you would let loose your longing

gathering flowers so very delicate a girl

delicate Adonis is dying Kythereia what should we do? strike yourselves maidens and tear your garments