Faintness Quotes

#1. Then a faintness came over her; she recalled the Viscount who had waltzed with her at Vaubyessard, and his beard exhaled like this air an odour of vanilla and citron, and mechanically she half-closed her eyes the better to breathe it in. But

Gustave Flaubert

#2. The heating system was a farce, depending as it did on registers in the floor wherefrom the tepid exhalations of a throbbing and groaning basement furnace were transmitted to the rooms with the faintness of a moribund's last breath.

Vladimir Nabokov

#3. The faintness of the stars, the freshness of the morning, the dewdrop on the flower, speaks to me.

Chief Dan George

#4. The heart-sick faintness of the hope delayed!

Walter Scott

#5. We may make mistakes-but they must never be mistakes which result from faintness of heart or abandonment of moral principle.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#6. I have them, these attacks of the past, like faintness, a wave sweeping over my head.

Margaret Atwood

#7. Personal faintness, and an overpowering personal candour, were the distinguishing features of Mrs Billickin's organization. She came languishing out from her own exclusive back parlour, with the air of having been expressly brought-to for the purpose, from an accumulation of several swoons.

Charles Dickens

#8. It's up to each person's parents whether they think it's too frightening or too violent, how much their kids can handle, what they want to teach them, what they want to show them.

Gina Philips

#9. Oppression is the essence of power.

Ernst Kaltenbrunner

#10. It's easy to make ideological mistakes in theory.

Liu Cixin

#11. I've got enough money to last the rest of my life ... as long as I die about four o'clock this afternoon.

Henny Youngman

#12. I'm a curvy girl and that will never change.

Holly Madison

#13. Leadership is stewardship, it's temporary and you're accountable!

Andy Stanley

#14. That is the way of it. - Rooster Cogburn

Charles Portis

#15. The incident does not mean that most Japanese were not appalled by Aum. It does suggest that many young adults viewed their society as so corrupt and hypocritical that any degree of mockery, if not violence against it, was justified.

Robert Jay Lifton

#16. I believe a young player will run through a barbed wire fence for you. An older player looks for a hole in the fence.

Brendan

#17. Any thought or action that you repeat over and over will eventually become a new habit.

Brian Tracy

#18. There's no sense beating around the bush, it doesn't burn that many calories. from Split the Uprights

Davee Jones

#19. You know the first time I sat in the chair I felt anything but up, it was very emotional for me. I had a chair in my hotel room, a chair at rehearsal, and I was trying to spend as much time as I could in the chair.

Gregory Hines

#20. What you feel, Cerise? I feel it, too. Fuck, Mia, I feel everything for you.

Christina Lauren

#21. Obedience brings blessings.

Thomas S. Monson