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• To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

  Lillian Smith

  Life, Dream, Art

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• I don't like seeing her this delicate.

  Marie Lu

  Seeing

  Marie Lu (2013). “The Legend Trilogy Collection”, p.367, Penguin

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• People pay attention to lyrics, and the race matter was delicate.

  Charley Pride

  Race, People, Attention

  Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co

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• People who are knowledgeable about poetry sometimes discuss it in that knowing, rather hateful way in which oenophiles talk about wine: robust, delicate, muscular. This has nothing to do with how most of us experience it, the heart coming around the corner and unexpectedly running into the mind. Of all the words that have stuck to the ribs of my soul, poetry has been the most filling.

  Anna Quindlen

  Running, Heart, Wine

  Anna Quindlen (2004). “Loud and Clear”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a desire to rule, in the mind it is a sympathy, and in the body it is a hidden and delicate wish to possess what we love-Plus many mysteries.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Soul

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• For society to function some kind of reasonable balance has to be stuck between the competing interests of creditors and debtors. Although the mandate of the Bank of Canada was to maintain a delicate balance between encouraging growth and fighting inflation, the Bank opted to focus exclusively on fighting inflation. In doing so it came down heavily in favour of those with financial assets to protect, and against those whose primary need was employment.

  Linda McQuaig

  Fighting, Focus, Growth

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• If a subject has a delicate surface to it, you do not want to go charging in there. You need to establish some kind of presence and understanding. I will say, Try to forget I'm here. I won't ask you to pose, I won't ask you to do anything. It's important that I just be allowed to be around, to be present. Photographing people requires a willingness to be rejected. So, I think the best approach is to be honest and direct. Very often, I tell them, You don't know me. There's no reason why you should trust me... the only thing I can promise is that I'll try to do the most honest work I can.

  William Albert Allard

  Thinking, People, Understanding

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• A delicate fabric of bird song
  Floats in the air,
  The smell of wet wild earth
  Is everywhere.
  Oh I must pass nothing by
  Without loving it much,
  The raindrop try with my lips,
  The grass with my touch;
  For how can I be sure
  I shall see again
  The world on the first of May
  Shining after the rain?

  Sara Teasdale

  Song, Spring, Rain

  Sara Teasdale, William Drake (1984). “Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• My complexion is delicate, so I have to use things that won't irritate it. I switch moisturisers often.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Use, Complexion

  "Supermodel Secrets" by Megan Deem, www.elle.com. February 12, 2007.

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• There is always a very delicate interplay between individual actions and institutional conditions.

  Cornel West

  Action, Individual, Conditions

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Colored lights shone right across the northern sky, leaping and flaring, spreading in rainbow hues from horizon to zenith: blood red to rose pink, saffron yellow to delicate primrose, pale green, aquamarine to darkest indigo. Great veils of color swathed the heavens, rising and falling as light seen through cascading curtains of water. Streamers shot out in great shifting beams as if God had put his thumb across the sun.

  Celia Rees

  Fall, Light, Blood

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• The thing is, helicopters are different from planes. An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or by a deliberately incompetent pilot, it will fly. A helicopter does not want to fly. It is maintained in the air by a variety of forces and controls working in opposition to each other, and if there is any disturbance in this delicate balance the helicopter stops flying; immediately and disastrously. There is no such thing as a gliding helicopter.

  Harry Reasoner

  Airplane, Flying, Balance

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• What appears in the pictures was the subject's decision, not mine. I took what they presented - delicate moments - unadorned and unglamorous, yet tender and exquisite.

  Ray Metzker

  Decision, Moments, Exquisite

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• The horror genre is an extremely delicate thing. You can talk to filmmakers and even psychologists who've studied the genre, and even they don't understand what works or what doesn't work. More importantly, they don't understand why it works when it works.

  Stephen King

  Genre Is, Delicate Things, Horror Genre

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• Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom!

  Alex Faickney Osborn

  Flower, Creativity, Praise

  Alex Faickney Osborn (1953). “Applied imagination: principles and procedures of creative thinking”

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• In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.

  Martha Graham

  Beautiful, Dance, Forgotten Things

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

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• You know that saying 'A little knowledge is a dangerous thing'? That's so true of positive psychology. Our latest research tells us that the pursuit of happiness is a delicate art. Certain approaches to seeking happiness are now known to backfire, whereas others are effective.

  Barbara Fredrickson

  Art, Pursuit Of Happiness, Psychology

  "Barbara Fredrickson Talks About…". Interview with Seph Fontane Pennock, positivepsychologynews.com. January 20, 2015.

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• Thank you,” Skulduggery said to her. “I fear he was about to start insulting me.” “I couldn’t let that happen,” she said. “Your ego is a fragile and delicate thing.” “You see? You understand me.

  Derek Landy

  Delicate Things, Ego, Insulting

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• After another half second, he's locked me in a bear hug, crushing me into his chest and lifting my feet a couple inches off the ground as I kick furiously with my heels, twisting my head back and forth, snapping at his forearm with my teeth. And the whole time his lips tickling the delicate skin of my ear. "Cassie. Don't. Cassie..." "Let...me...go." "That's been the whole problem. I can't.

  Rick Yancey

  Crush, Couple, Feet

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• 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

  Kitchen, Layers, Events

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• There are different kinds of passages in the movie [Chicken with plums]. One of the passages is like a sitcom and another is a bit more delicate and another is more bizarre, so you have to have people who know how to navigate that.

  Vincent Paronnaud

  People, Different, Plums

  Source: collider.com

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• Beauty is a hard thing. Beauty is a mean story. Beauty is slender girls who die young, fine-featured delicate creatures about whom men write poems. Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time. And I loved her for that.

  Dorothy Allison

  Girl, Mean, Writing

  Dorothy Allison (1996). “Two or Three Things I Know for Sure”, p.36, Penguin

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• If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Respect, Courage, Adversity

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• There is no single approach that actors take to their craft. And the best thing you learn is that you have to really listen and respect each actor's own process and own method, and that takes a kind of delicate, non-imposing patience and openness, I think, to get the very best out of the people you work with.

  Todd Haynes

  Thinking, People, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you're dealing with killing people and things that are upsetting, that can be a delicate place to occupy yourself for a day.

  James Purefoy

  Occupy Yourself, People, Upset

  Source: collider.com

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