Flinching Quotes
30 Flinching quotes by 26 unique authors
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One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double…
— Winston Churchill
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I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a…
— Violette Leduc
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A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning. I don't care about whose DNA has recombined…
— Jim Butcher
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Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all…
— Plato
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Buddhism advises you not to implant feelings that you don’t really have or avoid feelings that you do have. If you are miserable you are…
— Henepola Gunaratana
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America has faced much more difficult times, including potential national extinction, without flinching.
— Nick Clooney
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PRIMAL TEARS is a novel of tremendous power. Passionate and erotic, at times tenderly lyrical, it confronts head-on, without flinching, brutal environmental and feminist politics.…
— Kate Wilhelm
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That's what our training is for, we practice not panicking, we practice breathing, we practice looking directly at the thing that scares us until we…
— Kristin Armstrong
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To live in a city is to be forever flinching,
— Jenny Offill
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I keep getting these people at my shows who only know me from television. I can always tell when they're, like, emotionally flinching when I…
— Dave Attell
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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
— Henry A. Kissinger
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I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my…
— Lorna Luft
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It's only at this age that I can say the word 'art' without flinching.
— Mira Nair
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If you want to understand any woman you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully. Stories about food show a strong connection.…
— Anita Diament
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Or perhaps it is some combination of spirit and desire, love and hope, some alchemy that we each possess and can put to use, if…
— Libba Bray
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Sweetie, in our world, fair’s got nothing to do with anything. He who has the greatest power wins. It’s why we’re all willing to kill…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I really hate Squires. (Syra) (She pulled another flat bolt out and loaded it, then shot it at Otto. Moving so fast he could hardly…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. But almost anyone can do that. Almost anyone can hold their breath and not scream…
— Robin Hobb
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You're crying?" he said. "No, I- " I tore my gaze away. "Just dust. From the path. Simon's that way." I tried to pass him,…
— Kelley Armstrong
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His gaze held hers, and his voice was tender and rough. “Love me, Elizabeth.” Elizabeth felt a tremor run through her entire body, but she…
— Judith McNaught
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She put a hit on her boyfriend, so it's not like she hasn't murdered someone." "And you know that how?" Sam asks. I'm trying really…
— Holly Black
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His were the kind of eyes that held secrets. The kind that lied without flinching. The kind that once you looked into them, it was…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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You need to understand that truth is stranger than fiction. Listen: people are willing to swallow any old tripe as long as you say it…
— Craig Silvey
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He leaned down until his lips brushed her ear. “I told you to stop flinching.” And then he bit her. A slow, painless nip but…
— Nalini Singh
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Something about this made Reynie uneasy. Had he done so badly? Was this meant to test his courage? He did as he was told, closing…
— Trenton Lee Stewart
Who Wrote These Flinching Quotes
26 authors contributed a total of 30 Flinching Quotes, led by these top contributors: