Delicate Quotes - Page 28

• The Santa Anas blew in hot from the desert, shriveling the last of the spring grass into whiskers of pale straw. Only the oleanders thrived, their delicate poisonous blooms, their dagger green leaves. We could not sleep in the hot dry nights, my mother and I.

  Janet Fitch

  Mother, Spring, Sleep

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.7, Hachette UK

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• Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells...Easy to crush.

  Melissa Marr

  Crush, Feelings, Shells

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• I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace's arrival. But no, it's clog and slog and scootch, on the floor, in the silence, in the dark.

  Anne Lamott

  Healing, Dark, Silver Bells

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.43, Penguin

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• To say prayers in a decent, delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really, to pray till hell feels the ponderous stroke, to pray till the iron gates of difficulty are opened, till the mountains of obstacles are removed, till the mists are exhaled and the clouds are lifted, and the sunshine of a cloudless day brightens-this is hard work, but it is God's work, and man's best labor.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Hard Work, Sunshine

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.63, CCEL

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• Thou ever young, fresh, lov'd, and delicate wooer, whose blush doth thaw the consecrated snow

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, Snow, Young

  William Shakespeare (1813). “Timon of Athens; Othello”

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• Curiosity is a delicate little plant that, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom.

  Albert Einstein

  Educational, Curiosity, Littles

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• You can be fully satisfied with where you are, understanding that you're eternally evolving. When you get into that place of feeling appreciation of where you are and of who you are, and appreciation of what you are, and you accept that you are a never-ending, always unfolding Being, then you can stand in that delicate balance of being optimistic about what is to come, without being unhappy about where you stand. Find a way of eagerly anticipating future changes, while at the same time you are in love and satisfied with who, what, where and how you be.

  Esther Hicks

  Appreciation, Optimistic, Acceptance

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• In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Hands, Evil

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.282, Modern Library

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• Prayer is a fine, delicate instrument. To use it right is a great art, a holy art. There is perhaps no greater art than the art of prayer. Yet the least gifted, the uneducated and the poor can cultivate the holy art of prayer.

  Ole Hallesby

  Art, Prayer, Use

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences, they would learn as thoroughly and understand the subtleties of all the arts and sciences as well as sons.

  Christine de Pizan

  Education, Daughter, Art

  "The Book of the City of Ladies". Book by Christine de Pizan, transl. by Earl Jeffrey Richards, Part I, ch. 27, p. 63, 1983.

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• I think I'm an optimistic person. Ultimately I believe in people. I believe they can be robust. When my collection Delicate Edible Birds came out there were one or two people who read the title as being a commentary on the characters within the pages, the women in the book, meaning that they were these fragile girls meant for male consumption. But I had meant the opposite - these people are tough. Dark things happen to them but they get on with life as best they can.

  Lauren Groff

  Girl, Believe, Book

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• Refinement is the delicate aroma of Christianity.

  Charlotte Mary Yonge

  Aroma, Christianity, Refinement

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• It is contrary to the will of God to eat delicate food hastily.

  Zhang Zhao

  Food, Cooking, Culinary

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• New York is a meeting place for every race in the world, but the Chinese, Armenians, Russians, and Germans remain foreigners. So does everyone except the blacks. There is no doubt but that the blacks exercise great influence in North America, and, no matter what anyone says, they are the most delicate, spiritual element in that world.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Spiritual, New York, Exercise

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• Friendship, love, and piety ought to be handled with a sort of mysterious secrecy; they ought to be spoken of only in the rare moments of perfect confidence, to be mutually understood in silence. Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.

  Novalis

  Perfect, Silence, Delicacy

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• What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand; a quick resolution to do the greatest good by the smallest means; a great benevolence joined to a great strength and great humility.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Beautiful, Mean, Humility

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• Though men of delicate taste be rare, they are easily to be distinguished in society by the soundness of their understanding, and the superiority of their faculties above the rest of mankind.

  David Hume

  Men, Understanding, Culture

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.1314, Delphi Classics

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• The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.

  Theodore Parker

  Men, Hands, Body

  Theodore Parker (1859). “The critical and miscellaneous writings of Theodore Parker”, p.123

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• many tender, delicate mothers, seem to think that to make their children eat, is all that is requisite to make them great.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Mother, Children, Thinking

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1835). “Traits of American Life”, p.165

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• We should remember that it is quite as much a part of friendship to be delicate in its demands as to be ample in its performances.

  John Frederick Boyes

  Friendship, Demand, Remember

  John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.3

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• Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison.

  John Frederick Boyes

  Medicine, Enemy, Poison

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• Friendship is far more delicate than love. Quarrels and fretful complaints are attractive in the last, offensive in the first. And the very things which heap fewel on the fire of ardent passion, choke and extinguish sober and true regard. On the other hand, time, which is sure to destroy that love of which half certainly depends on desire, is as sure to increase a friendship founded on talents, warm with esteem, and ambitious of success for the object of it.

  Hester Lynch Piozzi

  Passion, Fire, Hands

  Hester Lynch Piozzi, Penelope Pennington (2005). “The Intimate Letters of Piozzi and Pennington”, Nonsuch Pub

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• Survival is an art. It requires the dulling of the mind and the senses, and a delicate attunement to waiting, without insisting on precision about just what it is you are waiting for.

  Marilyn French

  Art, Waiting, Survival

  Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• People of delicate health, selfish dispositions, and coarse minds, can always bear the sufferings of others placidly.

  Isabel Burton

  Selfish, Suffering Of Others, People

  Lady Isabel Burton (1875). “The Inner Life of Syria, Palestine, and the Holy Land: From My Private Journal”, p.262

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• The instinctive and universal taste of mankind selects flowers for the expression of its finest sympathies, their beauty and their fleetingness serving to make them the most fitting symbols of those delicate sentiments for which language itself seems almost too gross a medium.

  George Stillman Hillard

  Flower, Expression, Taste

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