#delicate

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#found #grow #how #ivy #know

I was so overprotected, I used to think I was as delicate as people said I was. ↗

— Natalie Wood

#i #people #said #think #used

The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form? ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#body #bold #breaking #contracts #curve

Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many otherwise excellent manuals for the learner. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#confused #constituted #delicate #discouraged #distinctions

An opening statement is like a guide or a road map. It's a very delicate thing. ↗

— Johnnie Cochran

#guide #like #map #opening #road

The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well. ↗

— Jose Marti

#delicate #future #his #honor #interests

True strength is delicate. ↗

— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

#strength #true #true strength

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow. ↗

— Ovid

#death #delicate #frown #idea #killed

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses. ↗

— Ovid

#often #produces #roses #sharp #thorn

Chefs are nutters. They're all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them. ↗

— Gordon Ramsay

#chefs #dainty #delicate #every #insecure