Faint Quotes

397 quotes by 318 authors

The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee; thou shalt kiss the child asleep, And dry the moistened curls that overspread… — Bear Bryant
Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest! Days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand… — John Muir
Nothing could be more lonely and nothing more beautiful than the view at nightfall across the prairies to these huge hill masses, when the lengthening… — Theodore Roosevelt
Then the soul, freed from vice, purged by studies of true philosophy, versed in spiritual life, and practised in matters of the intellect, devoted to… — Baldassare Castiglione
Time and times are but cogwheels, unmatched, grinding on oblivious to one another. Occasionally - oh, very rarely! - the cogs fit; the pieces of… — Robert E. Howard
The substance of the winds is too thin for human eyes, their written language is too difficult for human minds, and their spoken language mostly… — John Muir
A faint blush melting through the light of thy transparent cheek like a rose-leaf bathed in dew. — John Greenleaf Whittier
Oh! faint delicious spring-time violet, Thine odor like a key, Turns noiselessly in memory's wards to let A thought of sorrow free. — William Wetmore Story
There are faint stars in the night sky that you can see, but only if you look to the side of where they shine. They… — Janna Levin
Being a teenager these days is not for the faint of heart. — Melody Carlson
The darkness is not so dense as it was; there are faint streaks on the horizon's verge; mist is in the valleys, but there is… — William Morley Punshon
In the far, far future, essentially all matter will have returned to energy. But because of the enormous expansion of space, this energy will be… — Brian Greene
My mind is led astray by every faint rustle. — Mason Cooley
I say to everybody, 'Adoption is not for the faint of heart.' — Mariska Hargitay
Sometimes a faint voice based on instinct resonates far more strongly than overpowering logic. — Naveen Jain
The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted. — Peter McWilliams
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying. — Marcel Proust
When I was younger I probably didn't understand something basic about tact, but I think it kept faint-hearted people at arm's distance and that's not… — Debra Winger
The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its… — William Wordsworth
Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived. — Martin Filler

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