Delicate Quotes

You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself. - John Ruskin

You need to accept responsibility to prepare ahead of time. Horses, they are large creatures, but very delicate creatures and people don't realize what a devastating role stress can have on a horse. - Diane Sauve

You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book(Lady Chatterley, for instance), or you take a trip, or you talk with Richard, and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom(when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this(or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. - Anais Nin

You always have to remember your place. You can be close to the person, but you must know who you are and who he is. It's a fine balance. A delicate balance. It depends on your upbringing. - Viktor Sukhodrev

Words are sometimes sensitive instruments of precision with which delicate operations may be performed and swift, elusive truths may be touched; often they are clumsy tools with which we grope in the dark toward truths more inaccessible but no less s. - Helen Merell Lynd

Women should be treated as roses, not because of their delicate ways, but when you play with a women's heart, prepare to be stuck by the thorns. - Unknown

Without a doubt, this is the worst birthday he could have from a judicial standpoint. This is by far the most delicate situation he's gone through. - Ricardo Israel

With the focus on winning this year it will be a delicate mix. I'm sure there will be guys in April upset about the number of at-bats. I know these players don't have as much patience as I do. It's a dilemma right now but that's why I am waking up at 4 a.m. every morning. My mind is always working. - Ken Macha

With silk or any other delicate fabric that has wax spots, the best thing to do is have it professionally cleaned. - Jerry Pozniak

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want. - Thornton Wilder