Delicate Matters Quotes

There's a couple things you don't talk about in life, and that's race, religion and politics. I try to make sure I don't talk about politics at all.

There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.

We're kind of coached to stay away from touchy subjects just because of the arena that we're in.

Sometimes it's nice of someone to tell you what you smell like.

I know it is a somewhat delicate matter to refuse a gift, but in this case the statue is so atrocious that every endeavour should be made to keep it out of the church.

Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say, 'Let's talk about something else.'

There are some chagrins of the heart which a friend ought to try to console without betraying a knowledge of their existence, as there are physical maladies which a physician ought to seek to heal without letting the sufferer know that he has discovered their extent.

'Tis an awkward thing to play with souls.

One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.

There are unpleasant things which it is easy for only me to tell him.

There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people...religion, politics and the Great Pumpkin!

On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.

There are things that aren't supposed to be comfortable to read, because those situations shouldn't be comfortable to discuss, but they still need to be discussed.

It would be disingenuous to say I don't have some sensitivity to the seamy side of issues.

In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice by some one whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by chance.

I have a very good sense of tone, and it's possible to talk about very personal things and maintain a level of dignity and even privacy - to go to the place, to talk about it, but not get icky.

Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked.

I knew that part of the problem with sensitive issues is that, because they're uncomfortable to address, we have a hard time doing so honestly, if at all.

When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to the matter which they have most at heart. They dread the electric shock of a too sudden contact with it.

I talk to teens everyday about topics that are often extraordinarily uncomfortable.

Stories about sensitive issues like sex, drugs or sexual assault, suicide and teen drinking, are often censored because people just don't want to talk about those things. It's not that these things don't happen, but when they're shared in a fictional setting, for some reason they make some people uncomfortable.

She suspects her husband, Jake, might be gay." "Did you suggest she ask him?" Mom laughed. "Of course not. Business is slow.