Competition is a tough weed, not a delicate flower.
In the right key one can say anything. In the wrong key, nothing: the only delicate part is the establishment of the key.
I have an apple that thinks its a pear. And a bun that thinks it’s a cat. And a lettuce that thinks its a lettuce. " "It’s a clever lettuce, then. " "Hardly," she said with a delicate snort. "Why would anything clever think it’s a lettuce?" "Even if it is a lettuce?" I asked. "Especially then," she said. "Bad enough to be a lettuce. How awful to think you are a lettuce too.
Simplicity is a delicate imposition.
I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them.
Modesty is the delicate form of hypocrisy.
Friendship is far more delicate than love.
The winter moon becomes a companion, the heart of the priest, sunk in meditation upon religion and philosophy, there in the mountain hall, is engaged in a delicate interplay and exchange with the moon; and it is this of which the poet sings.
I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
Taste is nothing but a delicate good sense.
Psychic beings are childlike, delicate and easily destroyed.
When I was young I was soft spoken and a little bit timid and passive. My dream then was to be a ballerina or a figure skater - something very delicate.
Your strength is soft, indirect, delicate, tender, womanly. But it is strength just the same.
Actually caffeine is too hard on my system. I'm a delicate boy from Plano, Texas.
Your language, dear," Victoria reproved gently. "A lady never curses in public. There are much better ways to handle the delicate male ego. " Keiley paused. "With a two-by-four?" she asked. Victoria's lips pursed a smile tugged at her lips. "Only as a last resort," she murmured humorously. "And never in public.
There are much better ways to handle the delicate male ego. With a two-by-four? Only as a last resort and never in public.
Giorgio Agamben is possibly the most delicate and probing thinker since Walter Benjamin.
A delicate thought is a flower of the mind.
The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate.
It isn't ever delicate to live.