#delicate

Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#come #delicate #forgotten #god #into

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 questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned out by the noise of everyday life. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#come #delicate #drowned #easily #everyday

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

When a new generation watches the films, people might mention that it has improved their lovemaking. I guess it's because it isn't threatening. It was very sweet and delicate. ↗

— Sylvia Kristel

#delicate #films #generation #guess #i

We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature... In this scenario, Man comes on as a stupendous lethal force, and the Earth is pictured as something delicate, like rising bubbles at the surface of a country pond, or flights of fragile birds. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#birds #bubbles #comes #country #delicate

The stars are the great Gothic churches: spires, naves, delicate flying buttresses, massive conventional buttresses, stained glass and grandeur, grandeur, grandeur. ↗

— John Corry

#conventional #delicate #flying #glass #gothic

The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from depths beyond 500 fathoms, where they were certainly living. ↗

— Edward Forbes

#been #beyond #certainly #dead #delicate

Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world. ↗

— Logan Pearsall Smith

#delicate #finest #hearts #kind #make

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too. ↗

— Josh Billings

#estimation #forgive #him #his #job