Delicate Quotes - Page 25

• With Zen we do it more through slight of hand, a very subtle and delicate shift in consciousness, which shifts the world. It's kind of done from the inside out.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hands, Done, World

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• Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. I know of no sculpture, painting or music that exceeds the compelling spiritual command of the soaring shape of granite cliff and dome, of patina of light on rock and forest, and of the thunder and whispering of the falling, flowing waters. At first the colossal aspect may dominate; then we perceive and respond to the delicate and persuasive complex of nature.

  Ansel Adams

  Spiritual, Fall, Light

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• Blind Willie Johnson is a pretty big vocal influence. He can be very harsh, like gargly, gruff vocals, but also just slip into some very delicate, vulnerable soft stuff. I like that combination.

  Benjamin Booker

  Stuff I Like, Influence, Vulnerable

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• It's worth living abroad to study up on genteel and delicate manners. The maid smiles continuously; she smiles like a duchess on a stage, while at the same time it is clear from her face that she is exhausted from overwork.

  Anton Chekhov

  Maids, Faces, Exhausted

  Letter to I.P. Chekhov, October 2, 1897.

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• Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the seed at Athens, 2,460 years ago, until the ripened harvest was gathered by men of our race. It is the delicate fruit of a mature civilization; and scarcely a century has passed since nations, that knew the meaning of the term, resolved to be free. In every age its progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man's craving for power, and the poor man's craving for food.

  Lord Acton

  Strong, Ignorance, Men

  "The History of Freedom in Antiquity". Lord Acton's opening statement of his speech on February 28, 1877; later quoted in "The History of Freedom and Other Essays" edited by John Neville Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence, 1907.

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• People will go into a relationship, if it's a brand new relationship, it's so exciting because it's something brand new, it's variety, it's different. And you're so excited by the feelings. And what most people try to do because they don't want to lose that, they try to control it to make it certain. And if they make it so certain then you become bored in the relationship. It's a delicate balance.

  Tony Robbins

  New Relationship, People, Bored

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I never wanted to do just comedy or just drama; sometimes, going back and forth you can get yourself in trouble which happened to me on other things so you're always trying for a delicate balance - I also think that they compliment each other so well.

  Mike Binder

  Drama, Thinking, Always Trying

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• In long-term relationships ... we are called upon to navigate that delicate balance between separateness and connectedness ... we confront the challenge of sustaining both--without losing either.

  Harriet Lerner

  Long, Challenges, Balance

  Harriet Lerner (2009). “The Dance of Intimacy: A Woman's Guide to Courageous Acts of Change in Key Relationships”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• I am very strong & robust & not of the delicate sex nor of the fair but of the deficent in look.

  Marjorie Fleming

  Strong, Sex, Looks

  Marjorie Fleming (1935). “The complete Marjory Fleming: her journals, letters & verses”

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• Twas in heaven pronounced - it was muttered in hell, / And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell; / On the confines of earth 'twas permitted to rest, / And the depth of the ocean its presence confessed. / Yet in shade let it rest, like a delicate flower, / Ah, breathe on it softly, it dies in an hour.

  Catherine Maria Fanshawe

  Ocean, Flower, Echoes

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• [On John Tunnard:] One day a marvelous man in a highly elaborate tweed coat walked into the gallery. He looked a little like Groucho Marx. He was as animated as a jazz-band leader, which he turned out to be. He showed us his gouaches, which were as musical as Kandinsky's, as delicate as Klee's, and as gay as Miró's.

  Peggy Guggenheim

  Gay, Artist, Men

  Peggy Guggenheim (2016). “Out of This Century: The Informal Memoirs of Peggy Guggenheim”, p.164, Ravenio Books

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• You have to work to keep love alive; you have to protect it and maintain it, just like you would a delicate flower.

  James Dobson

  Flower, Alive, Like You

  James C. Dobson (1992). “Preparing for Adolescence: Advice from One of America's Foremost Family Psychologists on how to Survive the Coming Years of Change”, Tyndale House Pub

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• There are forces at work you do not perceive. I weave a delicate strategy which rash actions could rend. Patience , please.

  Jim Starlin

  Action, Strategy, Force

  "The Infinity Gauntlet". Comic book, Issue 3: Preparations for War, 1991.

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• I hope the day will come when a wasp-waist and a pair of thin shoulders will not be esteemed beauty: we have had our ideas ruined by trash novels, praising 'fragile forms' and 'delicate beauty,' 'dainty waists,' 'snow-drop faces,' and a lot of other nonsense.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Beauty, Ideas, Snow

  Julia McNair Wright (1879). “The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated”

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• True hospitality is a delicate balance of warmth and form.

  Sheila Ostrander

  Balance, Hospitality, Form

  Sheila Ostrander (1968). “Etiquette for today”

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• You will, I trust, resemble a forest plant, which has indeed, by some accident, been brought up in the greenhouse, and thus rendered delicate and effeminate, but which regains its native firmness and tenacity, when exposed for a season to the winter air.

  Walter Scott

  Winter, Air, Forests

  Sir Walter Scott (1871). “Waverley Novels”, p.240

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• We delight in the mere sight of the delicate glow of fading rays clinging to the surface of a dusky wall, there to live out what little life remains to them.

  Junichiro Tanizaki

  Wall, Sight, Delight

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• If I were poet now, I would not resist the temptation to trace my life back through the delicate shadows of my childhood to the precious and sheltered sources of my earliest memories. But these possessions are far too dear and sacred for the person I now am to spoil for myself. All there is to say of my childhood is that it was good and happy. I was given the freedom to discover my own inclinations and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to regard the future not as an alien higher power but as the hope and product of my own strength.

  Hermann Hesse

  Fashion, Memories, Childhood

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• 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.

  Norman Mailer

  People, Democracy, Goes On

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• A delicate, inexorable lattice of inferences began to assemble themselves, like a crystal, in the old man's mind, shivering, catching the light in glints and surmises.

  Michael Chabon

  Men, Light, Mind

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• For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way.

  Simon Beaufoy

  Way, Tradition, British

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• All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life; but among all those which the world has invented there is none more to be feared than the theater. It is a representation of the passions so natural and so delicate that it excites them and gives birth to them in our hearts, and, above all, to that of love.

  Blaise Pascal

  Love, Christian, Passion

  Blaise Pascal (1959). “Pascal's Pensées: Selections”, p.18, Prabhat Prakashan

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• One sees that dead, vacant look steal over the rarest, finest of women's faces . . . in the very midst, it may be, of their warmest summer's day; and then one can guess at the secret of intolerable solitude that lies hid beneath the delicate laces . . .

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Summer, Lying, Solitude

  Rebecca Harding Davis (2006). “Life in the Iron-mills: Easyread Edition”, p.11, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.

  Jean Cocteau

  Over You, Despair, Finesse

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• Fall the deep curtains,
  delicate the weave,
  fair the thread.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Art, Fall, Curtains

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.476, New Directions Publishing

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