#fain

Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#decided #devote #faintest #find #finding

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. ↗

— Harry Stack Sullivan

#angrily #angry #approach #faint #know

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. ↗

— Nadine Gordimer

#committed #eye #fade #faint #followed

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

— Michael Crichton

#blood #drawing #during #emergency #faint

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

— Carmen Miranda

#faint #hollywood #i #i am #i love

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing. ↗

— Walker Percy

#age #because #deranged #doing #faintest

Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall. ↗

— Walter Raleigh

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

— Marilyn vos Savant

#especially #faint #fall #feel #head

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. ↗

— Karl Von Clausewitz

#darkest #even #faint #first #follow

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#doing #fain #i #posterity #see