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Denis Law could dance on eggshells. -- Bill Shankly
He's pulling the load of an ox and walking on eggshells. -- Steig Larsson
What need, Dunstan wondered, could someone have of the storm-filled eggshells? -- Neil Gaiman
Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding/Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind. -- Jim Morrison
A hero without faults is like an omelet without little bits of eggshell in it. -- Colin Cotterill
Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell. -- Harlan Coben
I don't try to be candy coated. I don't try to walk on eggshells. I am what I am. Love me or hate me. -- Pink
White fragility! White people are so sensitive about race and racial conversations. I feel like I'm always walking on eggshells when I'm around white people. -- Margaret Cho
Off the packed trail we experience the miracle of corn snow, skiing atop the crust, like skiing on an eggshell that has been sprinkled with sugar. -- Susan Minot
South Africa is such a fraught place to live. The anxiety about crime, the crunching on racial eggshells, the juxtaposition of First World materialism with Third World squalor. -- Rory Carroll
The Spoonsize Boys steal the dollhouse toys while the cat by the fire is curled. Then away they floats in their eggshell boats, down the drains to their underground world. -- Tim Powers
Politically correct enforcement that`s out there in our society has tightened things down to the point where people just walk on eggshells and they are afraid to address things that are really on their mind. -- Ted Cruz
Each man carries the vestiges of his birth; the slime and eggshells of his primeval past with him to the end of his days. Some never become human, remaining frog, lizard, ant. Some are human above the waist, fish below. -- Hermann Hesse
What they had between them was still as fragile as flickering candle flame, as delicate as eggshell - and he knew that if it shattered, if he somehow let it break and be destroyed, something inside him would shatter too, something that could never be fixed. -- Cassandra Clare
Problems are an important part of maturing--meet them straight on. Work them out. It's like the chick in the egg. It has to break through the eggshell on its own. That's how it gains its first strength. If you break the shell for the chick, you end up with a puny little runt. -- Mark Tobey
It has to be admitted that, in a sneaking way, although he hated the discomfort of seasickness, once he was over it, he enjoyed the attention and sympathy that it created among attractive young women like Evanlyn and Alyss. And he liked the fact that Will tended to walk on eggshells around him when the problem was mentioned. Keeping Will off balance was always desirable. ~Halt -- John Flanagan
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Very gently. Like there are eggshells on your pedals, and you don't want to break them. That's how you drive in the rain. -- Garth Stein
A lot of times, you feel like you're walking on eggshells in a creative environment, because everyone's having to watch out for egos so much of the time. -- Tony Hale
Post-traumatic stress disorder didn't surface as a condition until 1980... that fact was very relevant when I remember back to how these men behaved. A lot of walking on eggshells was required for wives and children. -- Matthew Nable

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