A woman is gentle, soft, delicate, and a man's position is to protect her, help her up stairs, make sure she's in the car safely first. Take good care of your woman, and the sky's the limit!
When you collect marine animals there are certain flat worms so delicate that they are almost impossible to catch whole for they will break and tatter under the touch. You must let them ooze and crawl of their own will onto a knife blade and lift them gently into your bottle of sea water. And perhaps that might be the way to write this book-to open the page and let the stories crawl in by themselves.
Metallica is a very complicated, fragile thing. On the outside, it's all metal, but on the inside it's very delicate.
The movie [Chicken with Plums] is very delicate, and you need to have people around you that understand what you're doing, otherwise it doesn't work.
Certain I am that every author who has written a book with earnest forethought and fondly cherished designs will bear testimony to the fact that much which he meant to convey has never been guessed at in any review of his work; and many a delicate beauty of thought, on which he principally valued himself, remains, like the statue of Isis, an image of truth from which no hand lifts the veil.
Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.
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.
A democracy depends upon people getting brighter all the time. Democracies are delicate. They're not just ipso facto and just go on and on.
The balance between freedom and security is a delicate one.
You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, & you believe you are living.
Topography displays no favorites; North's as near as West. More delicate than the historians' are the map-makers' colors.
The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkably difficult to kill.
The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.
Giorgio Agamben is possibly the most delicate and probing thinker since Walter Benjamin.
Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkable difficult to kill.
Taste is nothing but a delicate good sense.
The curse of marriage That we can call these delicate creatures ours And not their appetites!
I don't like seeing her this delicate.
Life is hard to bear: but do not affect to be so delicate! We are all of us fine sumpter asses and assesses.