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Faint heart ne'er won fair lady. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Unless You Puke, Faint or Die, Keep Going! -- Jillian Michaels
Faint is the bliss, that never past thro' pain. -- Colley Cibber
Faint not; the miles to heaven are but few and short. -- Samuel Rutherford
Faint heart never won true friend. O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my friend I may be yours. -- Henry David Thoreau
Faint hearts are encouraged when they read about others who, despite amputation, spinal cord injury, or psychiatric disorders have a vibrant trust and confidence in God. -- Joni Eareckson Tada
Prate not to me of suicide, Faint heart in battle, not for pride I say Endure, but that such end denied Makes welcomer yet the death that's to be died. -- Stevie Smith
Faint equivalents can sometimes be found ... . Or it can be rendered obliquely-an adolescent's mental image of his or her parents making love, which must be something on the order of crocodiles mating. -- Donald Barthelme
Faint heart never won fair lady! Nothing venture, nothing win Blood is thick, but water's thin In for a penny, in for a pound It's Love that makes the world go 'round! -- W.S. Gilbert
There is no death-the thing that we call death Is but another, sadder name for life, Which is itself an insufficient name, Faint recognition of that unknown life- That Power whose shadow is the Universe. -- Richard Henry Stoddard
If you spent your whole life worrying about the consequences of your actions you'd never get anything done and the consequences of that would be unthinkable, wouldn't they? Faint heart never bowled a maiden over, you know. -- Ian Potter
There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumor of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
The elevator doors opened, and Ranger stepped out and spied Tank stretched out on the carpet. "Fainted," I said. Ranger walked to Tank and stood hands on hips, staring down at him. "Tank doesn't faint. I've been in firefights with him. He's a rock." "Well, the rock fainted. -- Janet Evanovich
Skylark,Have you seen a valley green with SpringWhere my heart can go a-journeying,Over the shadows in the rainTo a blossom covered lane?And in your lonely flight,Haven't you heard the music in the night,Wonderful music,Faint as a will-o-the-wisp,Crazy as a loon,Sad as a gypsy serenading the moon. -- Johnny Mercer
My mind is led astray by every faint rustle. -- Mason Cooley
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I say to everybody, 'Adoption is not for the faint of heart.' -- Mariska Hargitay
Sometimes a faint voice based on instinct resonates far more strongly than overpowering logic. -- Naveen Jain
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow. -- William Blake
Know what to do if you feel faint or dizzy, especially if you might fall and hit your head. -- Marilyn vos Savant
I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood. -- Michael Crichton
I need to eat a lot; otherwise, I feel faint. I get in the worst moods if I don't eat. -- Cara Delevingne
Hollywood, it has treated me so nicely, I am ready to faint! As soon as I see Hollywood, I love it. -- Carmen Miranda
My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint. -- Erma Bombeck
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying. -- Marcel Proust
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
Photography used to be not for the faint of heart. Its rigors would weed out the not-so-committed pretty quickly. You had to crank the f-stop ring yourself! -- Joe McNally
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 Pearsall Smith
The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town. -- Michael Ondaatje
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
The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this. -- William Wordsworth
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
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. -- Carl von Clausewitz
I'll tell you who makes me laugh, in a good way, and I'd love to have a date with her: if I could just have a salad with Lady Gaga? This would be my - I would almost probably faint. -- Richard Simmons
All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate. -- Nellie Bly
I actually wanted to be a doctor. But doing all those horrid rat dissections made me faint. I studied science till the 12th standard and later took up commerce. I was planning to do chartered accountancy, but fate had something else in store for me. -- Bipasha Basu
The truth of faith is a slender, glowing element that runs through even the seemingly ordinary and undramatic moments of existence. Even at low intensity, it is a steady source of illumination. Such religious truth is powerful even when it seems faint, even when it seems obscured by the larger events of history. -- Eugene Kennedy
On Mars, where the air is spare - a hundred times less dense than on Earth - someone could hear you scream. But you'd have to really strain to get anyone's attention. On the Red Planet, where the wind is high-pitched and faint, even a symphony orchestra will sound as thin as cheap gruel. -- Seth Shostak
The bottom line is that finding orphan planets - small, faint, and located who-knows-where - is not for the faint of heart. The task is comparable to observing a match flame at the distance of Pluto. The WISE satellite, a hi-tech, space-based infrared telescope especially suited for such work, has found only a few. -- Seth Shostak
In the far, far future, essentially all matter will have returned to energy. But because of the enormous expansion of space, this energy will be spread so thinly that it will hardly ever convert back to even the lightest particles of matter. Instead, a faint mist of light will fall for eternity through an ever colder and quieter cosmos. -- Brian Greene
faint heart never won fair lady -- Meg Cabot
With faint praises one another damn. -- William Wycherley
True love is not for the faint-hearted. -- Jack Kornfield
Imagination is a sort of faint perception. -- Aristotle
A faint endeavor ends in a sure defeat. -- Hannah More
Leadership is not for the faint of heart -- Bill Hybels
Getting old ain't for the faint of heart. -- Anthony Hopkins
In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing -- T. S. Eliot
I'm Irish and Cherokee Indian. I can't faint. -- Lynn Collins
Life is not for the faint of heart. -- Natasha Lyonne
Love and forgiveness is not for the faint-hearted. -- Meher Baba
Not suffering, but faint heart, is worst of woes. -- James Russell Lowell
Conscience is the accumulated sediment of ancestral faint- heartedness -- H. L. Mencken
And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Prayer imparts the power to walk and not faint. -- Oswald Chambers
Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted. -- Sophocles
Ah, fool! faint heart fair lady ne'er could win. -- Edmund Spenser
Men ought not to faint because men ought to pray. -- G. Campbell Morgan
We are all men, feeble, frail, and apt to faint. -- Charles Spurgeon
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The same faint song is heard in everything: "Behold yourself". -- Deepak Chopra
It's cool to know that I can make girls faint. -- Zayn Malik
My heart faint not. The Lord will strengthen my spirit. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
And let us mind, faint heart ne'er wan A lady fair. -- James Drummond Burns
Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery. -- Annie Dillard
The aster greets us as we pass With her faint smile. -- Sarah Helen Whitman
Growing old on screen is not for the faint of heart. -- George Clooney
Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint! -- Jane Austen
Being a teenager these days is not for the faint of heart. -- Melody Carlson
Though I am faced with many adversities, my heart will not faint. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived. -- Bertrand Russell
How totally unexpected," he declared, then proceeded to faint from blood loss. -- Brandon Sanderson
The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint -- William Wilberforce
Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived. -- Martin Filler
Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism. -- Immanuel Kant
The melancholy ghosts of dead renown, Whispering faint echoes of the world's applause. -- Edward Young
The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted. -- Peter McWilliams
Were knowledge all, what were our needTo thrill and faint and sweetly bleed? -- Christopher Brennan
Apology is not for the faint of heart, but then, neither is life. -- John Kador
If he full-out flexed, I would probably faint, or jump off the building. -- Ilona Andrews
Let's just say that the theater is not for the faint of heart. -- Phylicia Rashad
Let's just say that the theater is not for the faint of heart, -- Phylicia Rashad
Are you still faint from the run? Or was it my kissing expertise? -- Stephenie Meyer
Making a movie with Lindsay Lohan is not for the faint of heart. -- Grant Bowler
Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper -- Dorothy L. Sayers
Capitalism is part of our system, but it's not for the faint of heart. -- Michael Douglas
When the soldiers stand leaning on their spears, they are faint from want of food. -- Sun Tzu
In new work, we need to see the shadow, however faint, of previous literary effort. -- Phillip Lopate
Use your blood to paint. Keep painting until you faint. Keep painting until you die. -- Yoko Ono
When the wind is right, a faint odor of kerosene is exhaled from Senator McCarthy. -- Ray Bradbury
Swimming in the cold and the dark of British autumn is not for the faint-hearted. -- Sarah Hall
It is a shameful thing for the soul to faint while the body still perseveres. -- Marcus Aurelius
Cynicism cripples our imagination and limits our ability to see faint possibilities amidst glaring problems. -- Cory Booker
Novels written with film contracts in mind have a faint but unmistakable, and ruinous, odor. -- Annie Dillard
Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic. -- Patricia Meyer Spacks
Washington possessed the superb self-confidence that comes only to those men whose inner life is faint. -- William E. Woodward
Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic. -- Patricia Meyer Spacks
Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real. -- Jasper Fforde
I notice faint scars on her wrists and forearms, thin lines too symmetrical to be accidents. -- Isaac Marion
Married life is not for the faint hearted. Sometimes it can look like an ugly battlefield -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic -- Patricia Meyer Spacks
Soon now, the faint tinkling of a broken filament will become another sound of another century. -- Jane Brox
Nobody will ever hurt her. She'll just smile her faint vague wonderful smile and walk away. -- Neil Gaiman
The last days are not for the faint of heart or the spiritually out of shape. -- Sheri L. Dew
A faint blush melting through the light of thy transparent cheek like a rose-leaf bathed in dew. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
[Personal] industry must be faint and languid, which is not excited by the sense of personal interest. -- Edward Gibbon
History could hover, like a faint perfume or a memory stamped on the back of one's eyelids. -- Jodi Picoult
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The snow on the distant mountains was soft and creamy, as if veiled in a faint smoke. -- Yasunari Kawabata
A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
i wanted to try things, everything, especially things that are illegal and have a faint whiff of glamour. -- Michelle Tea
Activism that challenges the status quo, that attacks deeply rooted problems, is not for the faint of heart. -- Malcolm Gladwell
I become faint and nauseous during even very minor medical procedures, such as making an appointment by phone. -- Dave Barry
Modeling isn't for the faint of heart, you have to really want it and work hard for it. -- Liris Crosse
Through words he gave voice to the voiceless. Through deeds he gave courage to the faint of heart. -- Barack Obama
True love is no game of the faint-hearted and the weak; it is born of strength and understanding. -- Meher Baba
Really, Sophronia, it makes me most uncomfortable how you manage to sort everything out every time I faint. -- Gail Carriger
To God your every Want In instant Prayer display, Pray always; Pray, and never faint; Pray, without ceasing, Pray. -- Charles Wesley
Satan does some of his worst work on exhausted Christians when nerves are frayed and the mind is faint. -- Vance Havner

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