Delicate Quotes - Page 28

• I would say for every successful black woman in America or in the world, really, it's difficult to be the head of the household, financially. It is for the man in your life. It can be very hard for them. And there's a delicate balance. I'm not quite sure I know what that balance is just yet.

  Jill Scott

  Successful, Men, America

  "'The Real Thing,' According to Jill Scott". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 25, 2007.

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• The Santa Anas blew in hot from the desert, shriveling the last of the spring grass into whiskers of pale straw. Only the oleanders thrived, their delicate poisonous blooms, their dagger green leaves. We could not sleep in the hot dry nights, my mother and I.

  Janet Fitch

  Mother, Spring, Sleep

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.7, Hachette UK

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• The Washington Post is quickly trying to become the safe space for Donald Trump deniers, for the Trump-won-the-election deniers. I think the Washington Post is establishing itself as the safe space for anti-Trump delicate snowflakes to go.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Space, Trying

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.

  Anthony Trollope

  Strong, Wall, Ivy

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Barchester Towers: Trollope's Works”, p.425, 谷月社

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• We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature... In this scenario, Man comes on as a stupendous lethal force, and the Earth is pictured as something delicate, like rising bubbles at the surface of a country pond, or flights of fragile birds.

  Lewis Thomas

  Country, Men, Bird

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break.

  Henry Rollins

  People, Make Or Break, Chips

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  Chefs are nutters. They're all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Insecure, Self, Soul

  "Q&A: Gordon Ramsay Will Chew People Out, But Won't Eat Them". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.vanityfair.com. July 24, 2009.

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• Horseracing and ranch horses are two different animals. You're getting race horses out and running and running them. It can be really problematic. A thoroughbred's very delicate.

  Dennis Quaid

  Running, Horse, Animal

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• I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace's arrival. But no, it's clog and slog and scootch, on the floor, in the silence, in the dark.

  Anne Lamott

  Healing, Dark, Silver Bells

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.43, Penguin

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• Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells...Easy to crush.

  Melissa Marr

  Crush, Feelings, Shells

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• Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Simple, Thrones, Literature

  Evelyn Waugh (2012). “Helena”, p.148, Penguin UK

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• Love is a delicate plant that needs constant tending and nurturing, and this cannot be done by snorting at the adored object like a gas explosion and calling her friends lice.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Love Is, Needs, Calling

  P.G. Wodehouse (2000). “Bertie Wooster Sees It Through”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion. We reject the burden of their memory, and have anodynes against them. But the little things, the things of no moment, remain with us. In some tiny ivory cell the brain stores the most delicate, and the most fleeting impressions.

  Oscar Wilde

  Memories, Flower, Passion

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• Now very much against her will, she thought of the way Jace had looked at her then, the blaze of faith in his eyes, his belief in her. He had always thought she was strong. He had showed it in everything he did, in every look and every touch. Simon had faith in her too, yet when he'd held her, it had been as if she were something fragile, something made of delicate glass. But Jace had held her with all the strength he had, never wondering if she could take it--he'd known she was as strong has he was.

  Cassandra Clare

  Strength, Faith, Strong

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “City of Glass”, p.489, Simon and Schuster

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• Freedom of life does not mean disorder of life, does not mean chaos, and just everyone doing anything he wants. That is not the freedom of life. The tree, when you give it a chance, protect it when it is young, will grow straight, because it has developed its own resistance; but the moment you make it delicate, then it gets crooked.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Mean, Giving, Tree

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Hands, Evil

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.282, Modern Library

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• Prayer is a fine, delicate instrument. To use it right is a great art, a holy art. There is perhaps no greater art than the art of prayer. Yet the least gifted, the uneducated and the poor can cultivate the holy art of prayer.

  Ole Hallesby

  Art, Prayer, Use

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• Though men of delicate taste be rare, they are easily to be distinguished in society by the soundness of their understanding, and the superiority of their faculties above the rest of mankind.

  David Hume

  Men, Understanding, Culture

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.1314, Delphi Classics

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• The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.

  Theodore Parker

  Men, Hands, Body

  Theodore Parker (1859). “The critical and miscellaneous writings of Theodore Parker”, p.123

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• many tender, delicate mothers, seem to think that to make their children eat, is all that is requisite to make them great.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Mother, Children, Thinking

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1835). “Traits of American Life”, p.165

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• We should remember that it is quite as much a part of friendship to be delicate in its demands as to be ample in its performances.

  John Frederick Boyes

  Friendship, Demand, Remember

  John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.3

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• Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison.

  John Frederick Boyes

  Medicine, Enemy, Poison

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• If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences, they would learn as thoroughly and understand the subtleties of all the arts and sciences as well as sons.

  Christine de Pizan

  Education, Daughter, Art

  "The Book of the City of Ladies". Book by Christine de Pizan, transl. by Earl Jeffrey Richards, Part I, ch. 27, p. 63, 1983.

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• Friendship is far more delicate than love. Quarrels and fretful complaints are attractive in the last, offensive in the first. And the very things which heap fewel on the fire of ardent passion, choke and extinguish sober and true regard. On the other hand, time, which is sure to destroy that love of which half certainly depends on desire, is as sure to increase a friendship founded on talents, warm with esteem, and ambitious of success for the object of it.

  Hester Lynch Piozzi

  Passion, Fire, Hands

  Hester Lynch Piozzi, Penelope Pennington (2005). “The Intimate Letters of Piozzi and Pennington”, Nonsuch Pub

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• People of delicate health, selfish dispositions, and coarse minds, can always bear the sufferings of others placidly.

  Isabel Burton

  Selfish, Suffering Of Others, People

  Lady Isabel Burton (1875). “The Inner Life of Syria, Palestine, and the Holy Land: From My Private Journal”, p.262

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