He caught her as if he were used to catching fainting girls, as if he did it everyday. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“When a dead man knocks on the car window, I think fainting is a reasonable response.” — Marjorie F. Baldwin Copy Share Image
There are three natural anaesthetics: Sleep, fainting, and death. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
“She was nearly fainting: indeed, she wished she could really faint, but faints don't come for the asking.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
But I could never in a million years get up on a stage, ever. Even thinking about it makes me feel like… — Mary McCartney Copy Share Image
We had people fainting during the last tour, but I'm aiming for people to actually drop dead at this one. — Emilie Autumn Copy Share Image
What language shall I borrow To thank Thee, dearest Friend, For this, Thy dying sorrow, Thy pity without end? O make me… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
“Clearly, this was another thing I needed to add to the: ‘repetitive cycle of things that were constantly happening in my life’… — Adele Rose Copy Share Image
At yoga you get some sense of spiritual space so that people don't intrude. You can go there and close your eyes… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
If the workers see themselves faced with defeat through starvation, they will prefer to go down fighting rather than fainting — and… — Ernest Bevin Copy Share Image
“There was a very slight lilt to it, too, attesting to a childhood spent far from Lincolnshire, and Grace felt herself sway,… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
O God! I screamed, and "O God! Again and again; for there before my eyes - pale and shaken, and half fainting,… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
If you can but give to the fainting soul at your door a cup of water from the wells of truth, it… — Moncure D. Conway Copy Share Image
What we call Life is a condition of the soul. And the soul must improve in happiness and wisdom, except by its… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
But a topee is not a turban, and I had been my teacher's pupil before I became my husband's wife, learning to… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
I always thought fainting showed an inherent weakness of character, but I understood it now. It was an act of self-preservation. Confronted… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
There was a discordant hum of human voices! There was a loud blast as of many trumpets! There was a harsh grating… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
We speak much of the duty of making others happy. No day should pass, we say, on which we do not put… — J.R. Miller Copy Share Image
A Christian will part with anything rather than his hope; he knows that hope will keep the heart both from aching and… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
It will be as if I'd never existed, he'd promised me. I felt the smooth wooden floor beneath my knees, and then… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Clary didn't ask what that was. She was busy trying not to fall over. The ground was heaving up and down under… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Accustom yourself to look first to the dreadful consequences of failure; then fix your eye on the glorious prize which is before… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
“Mr. Lecky never got any farther than the third floor. Not conscious of impossible fatigue, feeling less than his distress of the… — James Gould Cozzens Copy Share Image
“Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind, But as for me, hélas, I may no more. The vain travail… — Thomas Wyatt Copy Share Image
Now piercèd is her virgin zone; She feels the foe within it. She hears a broken amorous groan, The panting lover's fainting… — John Wilmot Copy Share Image
And the rose like a nymph to the bath addrest, Which unveiled the depth of her glowing breast, Till, fold after fold,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
And thou hast stolen a jewel, Death! Shall light thy dark up like a Star. A Beacon kindling from afar Our light… — Gerald Massey Copy Share Image
“Jacky, who had read and admired Mary Wollstonecraft, and despised the fashion of fluttery helplessness in women, felt, to her own annoyance,… — Tim Powers Copy Share Image
Though essaying but a sportive sail, I was driven from my course by a blast re sistless; and ill-provided, young, and bowed… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
All through first and second and third hour, Eleanor rubbed her palm. Nothing happened. How could it be possible that there were… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
My business is stanching blood and feeding fainting men; my post the open field between the bullet and the hospital. I sometimes… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
I do squats until I fall over and pass out. So what? It’s not going to kill me. I wake up five… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
“The monk solved his immediate problem by giving a little whimper and fainting.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
