Careful Handling Quotes

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

My advice is to treat [credit cards] like what they are: little plastic grenades that must be handled very carefully.

Whose gold is double with a careful hand, His cares are double.

As far as paintings go, I always think about what it's like to move them and hang them up and hope they don't drop. To me, that seems like a big gamble, but that comes from me not being a painter.

Analogies, in particular, can illuminate, but they can also obscure and confuse. They need to be handled carefully, like rhetorical high explosives.

The Post Office is very careful nowadays. When they get a package marked "Fragile," they throw it underhand.

I would like to please the reader, and I think that surprise has to be an element of this, and that may necessitate a certain amount of teasing. To shock the reader is something else again. That has to be handled with great care if you're not going to alienate and hurt him, and I'm firmly against that, just as I disapprove of people who dress with that in mind - dye their hair blue and stick safety pins through their noses and so on.

He that will take the bird, must not skare it.

When someone entrusts their heart to you they are giving you a piece of their soul. You cannot treat the soul casually. You must protect, nurture and handle it with care.

Coffee must be treated gently and smoothed out. I hadn't realised it was so temperamental.

He who has far to ride spares his horse.

I do worry about breaking things - things that don't belong to me.

Never cut what you can untie.

Food's delicate. You have to handle it with finesse. You can't just be a big ogre.

You wash the roots very carefully before you plant.

I don't like to feel like I'm some fragile package that has to be shipped by high-priority mail and handled with white gloves.

I think sometimes you have to handle things delicately at work or at home. You know, you can find yourself in situations that are like opening a closet filled with bowling balls that are going to fall out of it, but if you handle things graciously, then that's not going to happen.

I am careful with my material and presentation.

Use your power gently.

My job is not to save 'The Wheel of Time', to fix 'The Wheel of Time', or anything like that. My job is not to screw it up.

We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.

Spur not an unbroken horse; put not your plowshare too deep into new land.

The throttles could only move very, very slowly, always watching the temperature, always watching. And even in throttling back, you could bust it, even being very careful.

It takes a great deal of time and thought to install work carefully. This should not always be thrown away. Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved again.