When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family. - Jim Butcher
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 the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. - Sir Winston Churchill
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God - Henry Kissinger
There is the satisfaction of being able to look at the image without flinching. There is the pleasure of flinching. - Sontag, Susan
We need courage to take ourselves seriously, to look closely and without flinching, to regard the things that frighten us in life and art with wonder. - Elizabeth Gilbert