#fain

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. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#bright #faint #feel #flourish #grows

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. ↗

— Alberto Giacometti

#equal #ever #failure #faint #i

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

— Patricia Meyer Spacks

#avoids #bears #even #faint #flavor

God doesn't stop crisis from coming, as He didn't stop Christ from coming. Things have their reasons for happening, we need not to faint, but rather have faith that we are never alone. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#crisis #faint #faith #god #never-alone

No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals. ↗

— Kenneth Clark

#arouse #art #bad #does #even

We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer. ↗

— Jules Verne

#after #alone #been #black #could

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

— Mariska Hargitay

#everybody #faint #heart #i #say

Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on. ↗

— Hanoi Hannah

#die #faintest #going #idea #into

We find them smaller and fainter, in constantly increasing numbers, and we know that we are reaching into space, farther and farther, until, with the faintest nebulae that can be detected with the greatest telescopes, we arrive at the frontier of the known universe. ↗

— Edwin Powell Hubble

#constantly #detected #faintest #farther #find

I've always liked the effect of having somebody in there who hadn't the faintest idea what was going on. ↗

— Derek Bailey

#effect #faintest #going #hadn #having