#fain

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

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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

My mind is led astray by every faint rustle. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#every #faint #led #mind #rustle

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

#faint #first #get #here #human

I would fain grow old learning many things. ↗

— Plato

#grow #i #learning #many #old

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#because #dead #dying #faint #grows

First thing I did when I found out I made it into the top 13 is I tried not to faint and you know, I took it all in and I really looked at the crowd and said a big 'thank you'. ↗

— Haley Reinhart

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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