Faintly Quotes
82 quotes by 72 authors
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It was the hour in which objects lose the consistency of shadow that accompanies them during the night and gradually reacquire colors, but seem to…
— Italo Calvino
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A second blow of many flowers appears, flowers faintly tinged and breathing no perfume; but fruits, not blossoms, form the woodland wreath that circles Autumn's…
— James Grahame
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There are times in history when the dark drums of God can barely be heard amid the noises of this world. Then it is only…
— Peter L. Berger
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Each individual has their own unique color, which shines faintly around the contours of their body. Like a halo. Or a backlight. I'm able to…
— Haruki Murakami
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It is certainly true that cooking is therapeutic, creative and all those other faintly creepy self-helpish words. I would love to tell you that learning…
— Steve Almond
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Duty reaches down the ages in its effects, and into eternity; and when the man goes about it resolutely, it seems to me now as…
— William Mountford
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But housekeeping is fun. It is one job where you enjoy the results right along as you work. You may work all day washing and…
— Gladys Taber
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One of the more pretentious political self-descriptions is 'Libertarian.' People think it puts them above the fray. It sounds fashionable, and to the uninitiated, faintly…
— George Carlin
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If you take most men aside when their wives are pregnant, most men are pretty frightened and worried and faintly disgusted by the whole experience.
— Steven Moffat
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One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly proclaimed…
— Charles Horton Cooley
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A Hamburger is warm and fragrant and juicy. A hamburger is soft and nonthreatening. It personifies the Great Mother herself who has nourished us from…
— Tom Robbins
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Joan Crawford is doubtless the best example of the flapper, the girl you see in smart night clubs, gowned to the apex of sophistication, toying…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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People are much like those stars up there. Some burn faintly for millions of years, barely visible to us on earth. They're there, but you'd…
— Sarah Jio
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Thomas Sowell is America's foremost public intellectual and for good reason. His work covers almost every subject imaginable- race, economics, Marxism, ethnic groups, immigration patterns,…
— Fred Barnes
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You know, a landscape painter's day is delightful. You get up early, at three o'clock in the morning, before sunrise; you go and sit under…
— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
— Matsuo Basho
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I was never a Republican, because those gentlemen, distinguished as they are, have only one real interest, and that is the making of special laws…
— Samuel J. Tilden
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It's fatal to talk about acting. It sounds faintly ridiculous if you start analysing it.
— Jim Broadbent
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Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no…
— Luke the Evangelist
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We faintly hear, we dimly see, In differing phrase we pray; But dim or clear, we own in Him The life, the truth, the way.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
Who Wrote These Faintly Quotes
72 authors contributed a total of 82 Faintly Quotes, led by these top contributors: