Flinched Means Quotes & Sayings

Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children. — Sam Levenson

Prisoner of Her Own Captivity — Brandalynn Davis

We glared at each other then, with the kind of hatred that comes from being deliberately wounded in one's softest, most vulnerable places by a person who used to love you passionately. — Therese Anne Fowler

One of those nasty hushes had descended on the place, a sort of missile crisis sort of hush. Even — Douglas Adams

was not old enough to understand the need to go back to a place where things were simple. He had no happiness in his face, the young ranger; perhaps he had never had a place where things were simple, a place he could think about when he needed to remember happiness. Perhaps the young ranger had been unlucky - he might have no good place or good time to remember. — Larry McMurtry

Anything in excess is a poison. — Theodore Levitt

You don't get it. He was all I had. Adam was it. That was it. And you all took it away."
He flinched and dropped my arm. "That's not true. I'm here for you."
Shaking my head, I backed up. "I don't know you, so that means nothing to me. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

People did not pick up the sexual connotations that often make even the most innocent expression of affection seem sexual to our sensibilities today. Perfectly respectable nineteenth-century women wrote to each other in terms like these: "[T]he expectation once more to see your face again, makes me feel hot and feverish." They carved their initials into trees, set flowers in front of one another's portraits, danced together, kissed, held hands, and endured intense jealousies over rivals or small slights.24 — Stephanie Coontz

I thought of happy endings, how novelists usually flinched. To admit your characters are doomed means you are too. — Darcey Steinke

Modern cars I don't like so much. — Amber Heard

Sometimes very small children in a proper environment develop a skill and exactness in their work that can only surprise us. — Maria Montessori