Faint Heartedness Quotes

#1. Conscience is the accumulated sediment of ancestral faint- heartedness

H.L. Mencken

#2. Once in their youth the light shone for them; they saw the light and followed the star, but then came reason and the mockery of the world; then came faint-heartedness and apparent failure; then came weariness and disillusionment, and so they lost their way again, they became blind again.

Hermann Hesse

#3. I like to avoid concessions to faint-heartedness. One can never tell where that road may lead one; one gives way first in words, and then little by little in substance too.

Sigmund Freud

#4. There's a danger in looking up past loves. It's usually best to keep sacred memories sacred, or they are bound to disappoint.

Kelly Kathleen Ferguson

#5. My favorite Dylan song? I think it's 'Just Like a Woman.' It always makes me cry.

Bob Saget

#6. So overjoyed were they at their deliverance that they laughed aloud, and the Earth seemed to them like a flower of silver, and the Moon like a flower of gold.

Oscar Wilde

#7. Volumes of history written in the ancient alphabet of G and C, A and T.

Sy Montgomery

#8. If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be saved?

C.S. Lewis

#9. I am just enjoying my youth but I want to settle down eventually.

Chris Evans

#10. If a coin comes down heads, that means that the possibility of its coming down tails has collapsed. Until that moment the two possibilities were equal.
But on another world, it does come down tails. And when that happens, the two worlds split apart.

Philip Pullman

#11. When I return to the writing process after being away from it for a while, the first part of it always is being honest with myself: What am I into right now? Is it rock bands and guitars, is it noise, is it dance beats and electronics? Is it space, is it clutter?

Trent Reznor

#12. This election is a critical step in that overall plan - transforming the Iraqi government into a fully constitutional one, able to secure its own borders and ensure the safety of its citizens.

John M. McHugh

#13. Domingo, your family needs you. Let me explain why I feel strongly that you must stay with them. I had a family once too that loved me. But I made a mistake. I was lured away by other things. When I realized they were what mattered, it was already too late.

Tess Uriza Holthe

#14. Transformation is an acquired taste - not for the faint of heart.

Bob Anderson

#15. What good is power when you're too wise to use it?

Ursula K. Le Guin

#16. I am not a chef. I can't claim that title. The difference is a cook doesn't have a degree. A chef has formal education. It has nothing to do with talent or actual preparation - one just can't claim the title if you don't have degree.

Anna Pump

#17. The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy and unmanageable environment that lay round them.

Thomas Carlyle

#18. The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.

P. J. O'Rourke

#19. Sometimes the things we loose sleep over are the parameters we set for ourselves, not the ones that God has set for us.

Bidemi Mark-Mordi