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Quotes About Delicate

A wet autumn morning, a garbage truck clattering down the street. The first snowfall of the season, blossom sized flakes falling languidly and melting on the ground, a premature snow fall delicate as lace, rapidly melting.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
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 delicate thing, so you have to be careful about how you present it because it can be kind of scary, or too overwhelming if you're not careful. So I try to just keep it love.
~ Whitney Houston
Wie lieb und luftig perlt die Blase Der Witwe Klicko in dem Glase.
~ Wilhelm Busch
I had eventually come to understand that friendship was a delicate, gradual process that mustn't be rushed or seized upon but allowed and encouraged to take its course over time. I pictured it as a butterfly, simultaneously beautiful and fragile, that once afloat belonged to the air and any attempt to grab at it would only destroy it.
~ Daniel Tammet
Thin and pale as a starved poet
~ Donna Tartt
So music to this man was a weight or a counter-weight, like those working the delicate wheels of Gaultier's automata. It would be interesting to know, thought Gaultier, what change of balance had created the need for it now.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
There glimmering white and snowy, enveloped in a delicate rose-coloured mist, rose the glistening pinnacle.
~ Agatha Christie
His delicate, pale hands reminded Dreyfus of the imprint of a bird's wings in ancient rock.
~ Alastair Reynolds
There is always a very delicate interplay between individual actions and institutional conditions. But there is no such thing as institutional conditions without any individual actions and no such thing as individual action without institutional conditions. So there is always personal responsibility.
~ Cornel West
The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man. The mountain of granite blooms into an eternal flower, with the lightness and delicate finish, as well as the aerial proportions and perspective of vegetable beauty.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Look out into the July night, and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as the bonfires of the meadow-flies. Yet the powers of numbers cannot compute its enormous age,—lasting as space and time,—embosomed in time and space.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am surprisingly very sensitive.
~ Nicole Byer
belief does not depend upon logic, it is a delicate and fragile flower that draws nourishment from intuition and instinct and hunch.
~ Ray Russell
I am the Gardener. I am tending a very delicate, very vulnerable flower.' 'The White?' 'Yes, the White. Nothing ever dies, Pug. It just changes. Nothing is destroyed. It is just changed to another state, from matter to energy, energy to mind, mind to spirit.
~ Raymond E. Feist
reasonable. So in the practice of awareness, which has gone on for centuries after centuries and millennium after millennium, human beings have asked themselves, Hmmmm, how do I engage this process in a way that I don't become too frightened by what it might unfold or too complacent by avoiding it? This is the delicate work of awareness.
~ Rebecca Solnit
Her voice, delicate as it was, had the strength to it that made one realize why a teacup can stay in one piece for centuries, defying the changes of history and the turmoil of man.
~ Richard Brautigan
I think it was the Earthrise that really kind of got everybody in the solar plexus Ã¢â'¬Â¦ We were looking back at our planet, the place where we evolved. Our Earth was quite colorful, pretty and delicate compared to the very rough, rugged, beat-up, even boring lunar surface. I think it struck everybody that here we'd come 240,000 miles to see the Moon and it was the Earth that was really worth looking at. At
~ Julian Barnes
Men were far more delicate to deal with than women were, she thought to herself. Their pride made the most reasonable solutions difficult.
~ Julie Garwood
The fabric looked delicate enough to shred with a good sneeze.
~ Julie Garwood
There was so much of beauty here: the neat, small tracks of a foraging creature, stoat or marten; the inticate tracery of a skeleton leaf, still clinging vainly to its parent tree as, little by little, time stripped it of its substance, leaving only the delicate remembrance of what it had been.
~ Juliet Marillier
His touch warmed my whole body. I was longing to throw my arms around him and hold him close, but the magic of this moment was like a single, lovely strand of cobweb, fragile and delicate. One wrong move and it would snap beyond mending.
~ Juliet Marillier
She's sensitive, too. Takes to hurt the way water takes to paper.
~ Junot Diaz
Happiness, like life itself, was as fragile as a bird's heartbeat, as fleeting as the bluebells in the wood, but while it lasted
~ Kate Atkinson
Simon: 'You know men. We have delicate egos.' Clary: 'I wouldn't describe Jace's ego as delicate.' Simon: 'No, Jace's is sort of the antiaircraft artillery tank of male egos.
~ Cassandra Clare