Faint Quotes

Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.

First thing I did when I found out I made it into the top 13 is I tried not to faint and you know, I took it all in and I really looked at the crowd and said a big 'thank you'.

I remarked constantly, just at sunset, in these latitudes, that the eastern horizon was brilliantly illuminated with a kind of mock sunset. This in a short time disappeared, to be soon succeeded by another similar in character, but more faint.

My mind is led astray by every faint rustle.

Hollywood, it has treated me so nicely, I am ready to faint! As soon as I see Hollywood, I love it.

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.

All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate.

The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.

I am undecided whether or not the Milky Way is but one of countless others all of which form an entire system. Perhaps the light from these infinitely distant galaxies is so faint that we cannot see them.

When people approach you angrily, you take them very seriously, and, if you're like me, with the faint suggestion that you can be angry too, and that you would like to know what the shooting is about.

My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.

Know what to do if you feel faint or dizzy, especially if you might fall and hit your head.

People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.

A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.

The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.

I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.

I say to everybody, 'Adoption is not for the faint of heart.'

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

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 beauty and dignity who does not know this.

The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town.