When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family.
It's only at this age that I can say the word 'art' without flinching.
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. Wistful silences demonstrate unfinished business. The more a daughter knows about the details of her mother's life - without flinching or whining - the stronger the daughter.
India is still flinching from a cultural insult, still looking for its identity.
To live in a city is to be forever flinching.
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
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 sensuous information - never flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of good - he arrives at the very end of the intellectual world.
Admit at least one painful truth to yourself every day. Teach yourself to feel that life would still be worth living even if you were not immeasurably superior to all your friends. Exercises of this sort, prolonged through several years, will at last enable you to admit facts without flinching, and will, in so doing, free you from the empire of fear over a very large field.
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 we first know where to look without flinching.
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 looked at him without flinching. “I do.
