In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more demanding. After all, we say things like, 'I'm no brain surgeon,' for a reason.
Sometimes I feel my arm is like a swan's neck - so weak.
Women's hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two.
I think that my sensibilities are becoming slightly less delicate and I'm venturing out in a storytelling world.
Whoever declares a child to be "delicate" thereby crowns and anoints a tyrant.
The balance between freedom and security is a delicate one.
This Englishwoman is so refined, She has no bosom and no behind.
And she was fair as is the rose in May.
A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.
I'm not made of glass.
The economy is a very sensitive organism.
All good things in life are fragile and easily lost
Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge.
Your strength is soft, indirect, delicate, tender, womanly. But it is strength just the same.
I like the collarbone, a very clean collarbone. I think there's something also very delicate and balletic about that part of a woman's body, and I'm not really a cleavage person, but I do like a back or a shoulder; I think there's something very alluring about backless dresses.
Every other person in the world would have looked at it and thought, Max would hate this. It was girly. It was beautiful. It wasn't made of titanium and black leather with spikes on it. But it seemed exactly right, in a weird, heart-fluttery kind of way. And I really loved it.
Butterflies are self propelled flowers.
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't.
Part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you.
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
Earthenware is like people, it needs to be well treated.
The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.
An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it.
