Quotes About Being Delicate

#1. Dictionary Definition of Delicacy 1. The quality or condition of being delicate, fragile, or sensitive. 2. Discretion, tact.

David Foenkinos

#2. it's about phrasing, and being delicate, and getting just the right feeling from a song, the soul of it, so that something real happens inside you when a man opens his mouth to sing, and don't you want to feel something real rather than just having your poor earholes bashed in?" He

Zadie Smith

#3. He pushed me beyond being delicate, into a place I had never thought I would go again. He made me strong. He demanded that I be anything but weak and broken.

Rachel Higginson

#4. It's no wonder to my mind, when I hear ladies talk such a deal about being ladies
and when they're such fearful, delicate, dainty ladies too
I say it's no wonder there are no longer any saints on earth_

Elizabeth Gaskell

#5. Research is about following the gleam into the dark. It's also about being sensitive enough to know which fact is "the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders," as opposed to the fact that deadens and kills a delicate new project.

Lauren Groff

#6. Another novelty is the tea-party, an extraordinary meal in that, being offered to persons that have already dined well, it supposes neither appetite nor thirst, and has no object but distraction, no basis but delicate enjoyment.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#7. Nothing can be more delicate without being fantastical, nothing more firm and based in nature and sentiment, than the courtship and mutual carriage of the sexes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. There will always being those
who say you are too young and delicate
to make anything happen for yourself.
They don't see the part of you that smolders.
Don't let their doubting drown out the sound
of your own heartbeat.

Clementine Von Radics

#9. When I say I love the silence, I'm not being entirely truthful. What I actually love are the abundant, delicate sounds that amplify when I'm silent. These curious creaks, mutters, and hums compel my imagination.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#10. Walking itself is the intentional act closest to the unwilled rhythms of the body, to breathing and the beating of the heart. It strikes a delicate balance between working and idling, being and doing. It is a bodily labor that produces nothing but thoughts, experiences, arrivals.

Rebecca Solnit

#11. I know men are delicate origami creatures who need women to unfold them, hold them when they cry. But I am tired of being your savior and I am tired of telling you why.

Ani DiFranco

#12. Men of the most robust make, observe that in looking upon sore eyes they often feel a very sensible soreness in their own, which proceeds from the same reason; that organ being in the strongest man more delicate, than any other part of the body is in the weakest.

Adam Smith

#13. For me, the idea of living small has always involved being curious - taking a look at how my day-to-day is connected to the larger world around me, and to the delicate universe that sits between my ears and in my small body.

Dee Williams

#14. Her nose looked incredibly delicate, as if a strong wind might hurt it. Surely it was in danger of breaking, being made so thin as well as sticking out from her face?

V.C. Lancaster

#15. Men are very delicate. They don't like being rejected.

Linda Ronstadt

#16. If film making is magic, there's a difference between close up magic and David Copperfield. If you're doing close up magic, which independent filmmakers do, it is a very delicate craft, interpersonal relationship, and being able to enrapture a very small audience.

Guillermo Del Toro

#17. Safe? Her voice was small, timid and delicate. But beautiful. The one word chimed like little bells. Her first word spoken to me.

Patricia Lynne

#18. While you make pretty speeches I'm being cut to shreds You feed me to the lions A delicate balance

Thom Yorke

#19. The fear of this delicate and fierce feminine has more to do with our fear of being vulnerable again, getting hurt again, than it does by our actual distaste for the beauty of the feminine and Her qualities.

Alanis Morissette

#20. What troubles me about the "hostile workplace" category of sexual harassment policy is that women are being returned to their old status of delicate flowers who must be protected from assault by male lechers. It is anti-feminist to ask for special treatment for women.

Camille Paglia

#21. Pure your gentle name, pure your fragile life,
bees, shadows, fire, snow, silence and foam,
combined with steel and wire and
pollen to make up your firm
and delicate being.
Pablo Neruda's epitaph for Tina Modotti

Pablo Neruda

#22. Being happy and being able to look yourself in the mirror while doing it is a delicate balance.

Jessica Ingro

#23. Your questions regarding that gentleman are very delicate, very subtle, very much like being smacked in the head with a mallet ... it's a tuba among the flutes.

Mary Ann Shaffer

#24. It's a delicate thing for me, with how involved I am in social media and being a part of people's lives in a way that they want me to.

Vera Farmiga

#25. Being engulfed in practice without delicate knowledge related to it, is in many ways like entering a ship without knowing where it is headed.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#26. Once in the shower, I let the water run over my face, keeping my eyes closed. The delicate outlines of Abby's features were burned behind my eyelids. It wasn't the first time; I saw her every time my eyes closed. Now that she was gone, it was like being stuck in a nightmare.

Jamie McGuire

#27. I'm not the most delicate - I'm not the most graceful person, and I like playing a sport where being not delicate and not graceful is actually a good thing.

Mary McCormack

#28. The line is very delicate and fine between being what one might call sane or insane, well or unwell.

Ronee Blakley

#29. To grasp the truth is a delicate gesture, like taking a hand in greeting, a lightness of touch is needed if one is to feel the presence of another being.

Susan Griffin

#30. JACKIE. I swear to God: Being in love with Veronica - it's like feeding your love to Godzilla every morning, and every morning you go "Yo, 'Zilla, these shits are very delicate so please chew softly", - and every morning - the motherfucker just goes crunch!

Stephen Adly Guirgis

#31. The line between being a nurturing parent and an over-bearing, damaging parent is one that's very delicate.

Jeffrey Wright

#32. That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden: layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one-dimensional.

Laurie Colwin

#33. Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness ... meaning at-oneness, the state of being at one with the object.

D.H. Lawrence

#34. Teen age is so delicate. It is sensitive. We tend to do something good for other, we fail. We opt to being selfish, we fail. We mostly regret fro what we do and what we don't.

Bhavik Sarkhedi

#35. 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 gardener.

John De Ruiter

#36. Although the patriarchal ego prides itself on being reasonable, the twentieth century has been anything but the Age of Reason. In our collective neurosis, we have raped the earth, disrupted the delicate balance of nature, and created phallic missiles of mass destruction.

Marion Woodman

#37. Prayer doesn't work in the way that you think. If you pray for good health and it is genuine, you might be coming into sickness. The essence of good health has to do with a most delicate well-being.

John De Ruiter

#38. People did crazy things for love. And being responsible for someone else's feelings like that felt powerful and terrifying. As if I'd been given some delicate and fragile object to carry over rocky and uneven terrain with shaky hands.

Stacey Kade

#39. Singular Touch.
With that singular touch of his precious warm hand,
His finger slowly skimmed her porcelain cheek.
As her eyes fell upon his delicate soul,
It was then he knew,
He had captured every single ounce of her being.

J.L. Thomas

#40. It was a delicate business, being the Not Wife.

Anne Enright

#41. It is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be in the grasp of superficially educated people.

Raymond Chandler