Faint Quotes

397 quotes by 318 authors

Satan does some of his worst work on exhausted Christians when nerves are frayed and the mind is faint. — Vance Havner
Probably there was a beginning-it is a metaphysical question, worthy a theologian-species have begun and ended-but the analogy is faint and distant. — Charles Lyell
No one can be certain where a nation which spans two continents, whose history begins in the faint traces of early civilization, a nation now… — Harrison Salisbury
If a lady comes up to you and tells you that your dear mama is lying in a faint on the pavement round the corner,… — Stevie Smith
Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic. — Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks
I'm Irish and Cherokee Indian. I can't faint. — Lynn Collins
Making a movie with Lindsay Lohan is not for the faint of heart. — Grant Bowler
There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumor of all lands: the springing and the… — J.R.R. Tolkien
In the silence of a midwinter dusk, there is a sound so faint that for all you can tell it may be only the sound… — Frederick Buechner
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes… — Thomas a Kempis
The poetry of earth is never dead When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide I cooling trees, a voice will… — John Keats
And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
A thousand trills and quivering sounds In airy circles o'er us fly, Till, wafted by a gentle breeze, They faint and languish by degrees, And… — Joseph Addison
Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors,… — Samuel Johnson
And let us mind, faint heart ne'er wan A lady fair. Wha does the utmost that he can Will whyles do mair. — Robert Burns
What precious drops are those, Which silently each other's track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew? — John Dryden
Look in, and see Christ's chosen saint In triumph wear his Christ-like chain; No fear lest he should swerve or faint; "His life is Christ,… — John Keble
With faint praises one another damn. — William Wycherley
That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of man. — Henry George
Begin now, as you read these words, as you sit in your chair, to offer your whole selves, utterly and in joyful abandon, in quiet,… — Thomas Raymond Kelly

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