Flinching Quotes

30 Flinching quotes by 26 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
America has faced much more difficult times, including potential national extinction, without flinching. — Nick Clooney
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
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
To live in a city is to be forever flinching, — Jenny Offill
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
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God. — Henry A. Kissinger
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
It's only at this age that I can say the word 'art' without flinching. — Mira Nair
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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