Faint Quotes
397 quotes by 325 authors
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The Bible is not a book for the faint of heart -- it is a book full of all the greed and glory and violence…
— Rich Mullins
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These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Satin and lace and brown velvet and the faint odor of violets. That was all which was left to him of his love.
— William Maxwell
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O men, grown sick with toil and care, Leave for awhile the crowded mart; O women, sinking with despair, Weary of limb and faint of…
— Phoebe Cary
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I know not which I love the most, Nor which the comeliest shows, The timid, bashful violet Or the royal-hearted rose: The pansy in purple…
— Phoebe Cary
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The Christian soldier must avoid two evils - he must not faint or yield in the time of fight, and after a victory he must…
— George Downame
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The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned, The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet, The mightiest rivers aren't spanned;…
— Berton Braley
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I think someone should design exercise machines that reward people with sex at the end of their workouts, because people will perform superhuman feats for…
— Tina Fey
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Be strong: we are not here to play, to dream, to drift, we have hard work to do and loads to lift, shun not the…
— Maltbie Davenport Babcock
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Villages and woods, meadows and chateaux, pass across the moving scene, out of which the whistling of locomotives throws sharp notes. These faint, piercing sounds,…
— Alberto Santos-Dumont
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Above me I saw something I did not believe at first. Well above the haze layer of the earth's atmosphere were additonal faint thin bands…
— David G. Simons
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This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and spirit. To see the…
— Mark Twain
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The lime trees were in bloom. But in the early morning only a faint fragrance drifted through the garden, an airy message, an aromatic echo…
— Isak Dinesen
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Lord, it is my chief complaint, That my love is weak and faint; Yet I love thee and adore, Oh for grace to love thee…
— William Cowper
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Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, has flown Come into the garden, Maud, I am here at the gate alone: And…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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O Love! they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river: Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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There are two types of compassion. One - is faint-hearted and sentimental. Actually, it is nothing more than impatience of the heart, that is hurrying…
— Stefan Zweig
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It is not merely the brevity by which the haiku isolates a particular group of phenomena from all the rest; nor its suggestiveness, through which…
— Reginald Horace Blyth
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The unicorn was white, with hoofs of silver and graceful horn of pearl... The glorious thing about him was his eye. There was a faint…
— T.H. White
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A light snow, a snow so faint and small-bodied that it seems nothing more than a manifestation of the cold.
— James Salter
Who Wrote These Faint Quotes
325 authors contributed a total of 397 Faint Quotes, led by these top contributors: