Feint Quotes

#1. It may be remarked in general, that the laugh of men of wit is for the most part but a feint, constrained kind of half-laugh, as such persons are never without some diffidence about them; but that of fools is the most honest, natural, open laugh in the world.

Richard Steele

#2. Ellington Feint was a line in my mind running right down the middle of my life, separating the formal training of my childhood and the territory of the rest of my days. She was an axis, and at that moment and for many moments afterward, my entire world revolved around her.

Lemony Snicket

#3. My name is Felicia au ... " I feint a whip at her face. She brings her blade up, and Victra goes diagonal and impales her at the belly button. I finish her off with a neat decapitation. "Bye, Felicia." Victra spits, turning to the last Praetorian.

Pierce Brown

#4. And Annwyl. Remember what I told you." "Protect my right side?" "No." "Feint with my left?" "No." "Nice ass?" "No!" His growl of annoyance only elicited a sweet chuckle from his woman. "Watch my rage, heart of my heart?" "Condescending cow.

G.A. Aiken

#5. She felt ... less. She felt tamped down. Dim. More faint. Feint. Feigned. Fain.

Patrick Rothfuss

#6. Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand.

Dani Shapiro

#7. I tried a very fancy attack I'd learned in France, which involved a beat, a feint in quarte, a feint in sixte, and a lunge veering off into an attack on his wrist. I nicked him, and the blood flowed.

Roger Zelazny

#8. Peter was a superb swordsman, and parried with dazzling rapidity; ever and anon he followed up a feint with a lunge that got past his foe's defense, but his shorter reach stood him in ill stead, and he could not drive the steel home

J.M. Barrie

#9. It's not easy to have the job of president. It's not easy to run for it. And it's not a job for the feint of heart.

Laura Bush

#10. The way I define 'intelligent design' is that when people started out, we wanted to make sense of the world we lived in, so we created stories about how things worked.

George Lucas

#11. The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments.

J.G. Holland

#12. Acting requires a creative and compassionate attitude. It must aim to lift life up to a higher level of meaning and not tear it down or demean it. The actor's search is a generous quest for that larger meaning. That's why acting is never to be done passively.

Stella Adler

#13. Commerce is the life blood of the City. If we are not careful, government will become the cancer.

Andrew Ryan

#14. Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity. Without fear, there could be no humility, and every man would be a monster. The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.

Dean Koontz

#15. You have a habit of having an 'underhand', and that is why you get a boss. Otherwise, no one is your boss and no one is your underhand; such is the world.

Dada Bhagwan

#16. You have to give to be able to receive.

Jaime Winstone

#17. Putting babies as young as two weeks into child care for the first year of their life, for 60 hours a week, will cause their brains damage.

Mem Fox

#18. Well look, CIA is an agency that has to collect intelligence, do operations. We have to take risks and it's important that we take risks and that we know that we have the support of the government and we have the support of the American people in what we're doing.

Leon Panetta

#19. Renewal requires opening yourself up to new ways of thinking and feeling

Deborah Day

#20. If she knew about the luggage, she was trouble. And Fallow had no sense of humour about his cock, to which none of the ointments had made the slightest difference.

Joe Abercrombie

#21. Obama is a president, who I think is anti-jobs.

Rick Perry

#22. I've had a love affair with every movie I've ever done.

Tony Scott

#23. Taken together the Internet reads like the grandest character-driven novel humanity has ever known. Not much plot though.

Victor LaValle

#24. She finally understood that, no matter how hard you try, you can't make someone love you. You can't stop them from making the wrong decision. There's no magic for that.

Sarah Addison Allen