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Quotes About Delicate

In long-term relationships ... we are called upon to navigate that delicate balance between separateness and connectedness ... we confront the challenge of sustaining both--without losing either.
~ lerner harriet ii
When it was finally my turn, I felt I was growing a whole new chamber in my heart. I nearly swooned, staring at the baby like a lover. I'd never seen anything so delicate and beautiful, so sweet, every feature perfect.
~ Lesley Stahl
In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more demanding. After all, we say things like, 'I'm no brain surgeon,' for a reason.
~ Sam Kean
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 or one's radio set will seldom make it work better.
~ Theodosius Dobzhansky
Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet's work, but never yea to his hope.
~ Henry David Thoreau
There are forces at work you do not perceive. I weave a delicate strategy which rash actions could rend. Patience , please.
~ Jim Starlin
It's such a delicate business, the structure of film, isn't it? What happens if a scene is not there but two minutes later? It's an eternal, never-ending search, actually, which is very exciting. It really is.
~ Harold Pinter
A restructuring of an organisation is always a difficult time and delicate.
~ Toto Wolff
What is right and what is wrong is a very sensitive matter.
~ Tove Jansson
soufflés can be very tricky
~ Tracie Peterson
Survival is an art. It requires the dulling of the mind and the senses, and a delicate attunement to waiting, without insisting on precision about just what it is you are waiting for.
~ Marilyn French
Fall the deep curtains, delicate the weave, fair the thread.
~ Hilda Doolittle
It's my intention to make something stand outside the realm of album art, but it also feels comfortable to me to be in it. It's tricky and definitely a requires striking a delicate balance.
~ John Dyer Baizley
True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.
~ Jose Bergamin
Politics is a delicate art of saying what people want to hear and doing what people don't want to hear
~ Unknown
Creativity is a fragile, delicate flower, which must be cautiously cared forand protected, from the harsh elementsof "human weather.
~ Unknown
Did you ever think that perhaps our minds are delicately calibrated between the known and the unknown? That our souls need the mysteries of night and the clarity of day?
~ Dave Eggers
Vella looked around. This is really a revolting place, Yarblek, she told him. You've been spending too much time with Porenn, he said. You're starting to get delicate. How would you like to have me gut you? she offered. That's my girl.
~ David Eddings
I think the world divides neatly into those who are excited by the managed induction of terror and those who are not. I do not find terror exciting. I find it terrifying. One of my basic goals is to subject my nervous system to as little total terror as possible. The cruel paradox of course is that this kind of makeup usually goes hand in hand with a delicate nervous system that's extremely easy to terrify.
~ David Foster Wallace
When the mind's free, The Body's delicate.
~ William Shakespeare
I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it...I spent more hours than I can count a quiet witness to the highly mannered, manifold expressions of life that grace our planet. It is something so bright, loud, weird and delicate as to stupefy the senses.
~ Yann Martel
How does it feel to have a daughter? - At times it's like holding a warm egg in my hand.
~ Clarice Lispector
Dá-me a tua mão desconhecida, que a vida está me doendo, e não sei como falar – a realidade é delicada demais, só a realidade é delicada, minha irrealidade e minha imaginação são mais pesadas.
~ Clarice Lispector
Life is very oriental. Only a few people chosen by the inevitability of chance have tasted the aloof and delicate freedom of life. It's like knowing how to arrange flowers in a vase: almost useless knowledge. That fleeting freedom of life must never be forgotten: it should be present like a fragrance. To live this life is more an indirect remembering than a direct living.
~ Clarice Lispector