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Medical professionals are the ones that come into contact with people who have been trafficked, it's a very delicate situation. – Jakub Sobik	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Those don't get wiped down nearly as well, there is a real delicate balance though; we don't want to make kids paranoid. – Harley Rotbart	Found on CNN 8 years ago
There is a real delicate balance though; we don't want to make kids paranoid. – Harley Rotbart	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The co-chairs have a very delicate balance to keep - they can't cut large swathes of the text because they don't want to alienate countries, but we do need manageable options for ministers to choose from. – Liz Gallagher	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It’s a problem we’ve been wrestling with for 20 years now, it’s a very delicate balance. We spend a lot of time essentially trying to determine whether a user has touched the surface or not. – Andrew Hsu	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The Church, in her wisdom, maintains the distinction between engaged and married couples -- they are not the same, today's culture and society have become rather indifferent to the delicate and serious nature of this passage. – Pope Francis	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The delicate compromise that came out of the Foreign Relations Committee is really a fine piece of work, we brought that to the floor and tried to cooperate as much as could until we realized that every amendment the Republicans offered was to denigrate and hurt and destroy that bill. – Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid	Found on CNN 9 years ago
It is a very delicate fish, but it’s just the first fish on the chopping block if we don’t manage the delta properly. – Peter Moyle	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It's a very delicate balancing act, when we have to make sure that we're managing but not increasing and escalating the problem. – Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
[The F-16 is] too fast, too delicate and it can’t loiter around enough to provide support. – Winslow Wheeler	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It's almost impossible for the White House to give firm answers because there's just too much you don't know, it's an extraordinarily delicate dance they have to do to not throw someone overboard, but not get anyone in the White House in deeper trouble. – Ari Fleischer	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It was such a delicate and beautifully told story and I have to say, too, secretly for 17 years I've been reading scripts constantly imagining that I could work with Ian McKellen and suddenly there is this script. – Bill Condon	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It's a very dangerous chokehold, because you can damage the very delicate structures in the throat, ... There are a lot of things police can do to prevent something like this. – Lawrence Kobilinsky	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Each person should see himself as though the entire world is on a delicate balance, and with one deed, he or she can tip the scales. – Moses Ben Maimon Maimonides	added by anonymous 9 years ago
“He had a, ‘presence,’ that was second to none, so full of quiet and assured self-possession and dignity. But it never inspired fear. The deepest sentiment that it invoked was awe, not fear. I think the reason for this was his eyes. Yes, I am sure that it was his eyes, so wonderful were they. Of the most delicate, shade of blue, they looked you straight in the face with the kindest, tenderest, most loving expression…His eyes were so clear that it seemed as if he opened the whole of his soul to your gaze, a soul that was so simple and pure that it did not fear your scrutiny…That was his great charm and this was politically his great weakness.” – Charles Sydney Gibbes	added by anonymous 9 years ago
The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the most lasting joys; the being towards or for whom all their efforts tend for whom and by whom fortunes are made and lost; for whom, but especially by whom, artists and poets compose their most delicate jewels; from whom flow the most enervating pleasures and the most enriching sufferings -- woman, in a word, is not, for the artist in general... only the female of the human species. She is rather a divinity, a star. – Charles Baudelaire	added by anonymous 10 years ago
But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious. – Colette	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, English has reached the Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay. – Raymond Chandler	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it. – Anne Louise Germaine de Staël	added by anonymous 10 years ago
If church prelates, past or present, had even an inkling of physiology they'd realize that what they term this inner ugliness creates and nourishes the hearing ear, the seeing eye, the active mind, and energetic body of man and woman, in the same way that dirt and dung at the roots give the plant its delicate leaves and the full-blown rose. – Seán O'Casey	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty, of honor, grace, courtesy, delicate feeling. Where imponderables, are things of first importance, there is the height of civilization, and, if at the same time, the power of art exists unimpaired, human life has reached a level seldom attained and very seldom surpassed. – Edith Hamilton	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head, make their point of constructive criticism and continue on in calm forbearance. Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne. – Quentin Crisp	added by anonymous 10 years ago
There is that delicate, unique degree of love, that leaves no space for tolerance, possesses all instincts, and takes absolute control of heart and mind. That if that love is lost, you gradually lose the world.. – The wise Pharoah Moe	added by anonymous 11 years ago
In this world, however little happiness may have been our portion, yet have we no desire to die. Whether he can speak of life as cheerful and delicate, or as full of pain, anxiety, and sorrow, never yet have I seen one who wished to die. – Firdausi	added by anonymous 12 years ago

Medical professionals are the ones that come into contact with people who have been trafficked, it's a very delicate situation.

– Jakub Sobik

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Those don't get wiped down nearly as well, there is a real delicate balance though; we don't want to make kids paranoid.

– Harley Rotbart

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There is a real delicate balance though; we don't want to make kids paranoid.

– Harley Rotbart

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The co-chairs have a very delicate balance to keep - they can't cut large swathes of the text because they don't want to alienate countries, but we do need manageable options for ministers to choose from.

– Liz Gallagher

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It’s a problem we’ve been wrestling with for 20 years now, it’s a very delicate balance. We spend a lot of time essentially trying to determine whether a user has touched the surface or not.

– Andrew Hsu

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The Church, in her wisdom, maintains the distinction between engaged and married couples -- they are not the same, today's culture and society have become rather indifferent to the delicate and serious nature of this passage.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The delicate compromise that came out of the Foreign Relations Committee is really a fine piece of work, we brought that to the floor and tried to cooperate as much as could until we realized that every amendment the Republicans offered was to denigrate and hurt and destroy that bill.

– Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It is a very delicate fish, but it’s just the first fish on the chopping block if we don’t manage the delta properly.

– Peter Moyle

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It's a very delicate balancing act, when we have to make sure that we're managing but not increasing and escalating the problem.

– Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

[The F-16 is] too fast, too delicate and it can’t loiter around enough to provide support.

– Winslow Wheeler

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It's almost impossible for the White House to give firm answers because there's just too much you don't know, it's an extraordinarily delicate dance they have to do to not throw someone overboard, but not get anyone in the White House in deeper trouble.

– Ari Fleischer

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It was such a delicate and beautifully told story and I have to say, too, secretly for 17 years I've been reading scripts constantly imagining that I could work with Ian McKellen and suddenly there is this script.

– Bill Condon

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It's a very dangerous chokehold, because you can damage the very delicate structures in the throat, ... There are a lot of things police can do to prevent something like this.

– Lawrence Kobilinsky

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Each person should see himself as though the entire world is on a delicate balance, and with one deed, he or she can tip the scales.

– Moses Ben Maimon Maimonides

added by anonymous
9 years ago

“He had a, ‘presence,’ that was second to none, so full of quiet and assured self-possession and dignity. But it never inspired fear. The deepest sentiment that it invoked was awe, not fear. I think the reason for this was his eyes. Yes, I am sure that it was his eyes, so wonderful were they. Of the most delicate, shade of blue, they looked you straight in the face with the kindest, tenderest, most loving expression…His eyes were so clear that it seemed as if he opened the whole of his soul to your gaze, a soul that was so simple and pure that it did not fear your scrutiny…That was his great charm and this was politically his great weakness.”

– Charles Sydney Gibbes

added by anonymous
9 years ago

The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the most lasting joys; the being towards or for whom all their efforts tend for whom and by whom fortunes are made and lost; for whom, but especially by whom, artists and poets compose their most delicate jewels; from whom flow the most enervating pleasures and the most enriching sufferings -- woman, in a word, is not, for the artist in general... only the female of the human species. She is rather a divinity, a star.

– Charles Baudelaire