Twinges Quotes

#1. Moon-Watcher felt the first faint twinges of a new and potent emotion. It was a vague and diffuse sense of envy
of dissatisfaction with his life. He had no idea of its cause, still less of its cure; but discontent had come into his soul, and he had taken one small step toward humanity.

Arthur C. Clarke

#2. And only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints of light, twinges of longing, passing shadows, disturbingly familiar, that are gone before they can be grasped, like the passage of that silver bird on Dhaulagiri.

Peter Matthiessen

#3. So I sit and endure the stares and the pangs and twinges of Catholic guilt, knowing that I am doing the right thing if I'm right, and the right thing even if I'm wrong. Being Catholic is hard. Being ex-Catholic is even harder.

Pete Hautman

#4. We welcome that kind of shrapnel so that when it twinges in our souls we're filled with that glowing feeling that comfort us in our darkest hours and whispers from somewhere inside that our own happiness isn't impossible nor is it entirely lost.

Carrie Hope Fletcher

#5. Bachelors alone can travel freely, and without any twinges of their consciences touching desertion of the fire-side.

Herman Melville

#6. As women glide from their twenties to thirties, Shazzer argues, the balance of power subtly shifts. Even the most outrageous minxes lose their nerve, wrestling with the first twinges of existential angst: fears of dying alone and being found three weeks later half-eaten by an Alsatian.

Helen Fielding

#7. Paroxysms of pain and twinges of desire leach from universal sources. All human suffering buttons itself to the pang of wanting.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#8. I can't run. I start getting twinges. If I were filmed running, it would be awful.

Ben Barnes

#9. In the last few months, he'd found himself prey to strange twinges that, after some research, he had discovered to be his conscience.

Jonathan L. Howard

#10. Except for normal human emotions we would be feeling anyway, and twinges of discomfort as we begin to behave differently, recovery from codependency is exciting. It is liberating. It lets us be who we are. It lets other people be who they are.

Melody Beattie

#11. Here's another thing: There are certain wounds that never heal, certain hurts that never leave you alone, like a broken bone that heals wrong and always twinges when it's about to rain.

Robert Goolrick

#12. I have felt some twinges recently, about parts I wanted to play that I may be getting too old and fat to do. 'Hamlet,' for example - maybe that's gone. I would love to play Richard II.

Matthew Macfadyen

#13. And that's when I realized that being attracted to someone happens at a visceral level. It happens when you see and feel the other person's heart and your heart twinges in your chest in reaction.

Kim Holden

#14. Chaos claims the unwary or the incomplete. A true man may flinch away its embrace, if he is stalwart, and he girds his soul with the armour of contempt.

Dan Abnett

#15. Stand for right, even if you stand alone.

Thomas S. Monson

#16. Ending a sentence with yo, is like saying, I don't want a job. Not today. Not ever. Know what I mean yo?

Dov Davidoff

#17. He put a hand on his throat, as though trying to stop the words, but they came anyway.
You're home. To me.

Kristen Simmons

#18. Sometimes I wish I were someone else. Times like those I borrow somebody else's nametag. I make love like Todd. At least Today I do.

Jarod Kintz

#19. The sacred sense of beyond, of timelessness, of a world which had an eternal value and the substance of which was divine had been given back to me today by this friend of mine who taught me dancing.

Hermann Hesse

#20. Cutting and pasting is the essence of what hip-hop culture is all about for me. It's about drawing from what's around you, and subverting it and decontextualizing it.

DJ Shadow

#21. he received no reply.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#22. Like water poured from one vessel to another, metta flows freely, taking the shape of each situation without changing its essence.

Sharon Salzberg

#23. It would mean a good film, the story that you have recounted to me there - but it bears no sort of resemblance to everyday life.'
'I admit that I haven't gone into all the details, but-'
'You have gone farther - you have ignored them magnificently.

Agatha Christie

#24. Raff, what have you done to yourself? Your hair is positively blue.

Kristin Cashore

#25. Many progressive economists insist that gold is now in essentially the same position as silver and that the arguments the simon-pure gold advocates use against the white metal can be directed with equal effect against their own fetish.

Benjamin Graham

#26. My education at Baron Byng High School was excellent, with dedicated masters (boys and girls were separate).

Rudolph A. Marcus

#27. Thou shalt not steal the shekels of thine audience with a play which doth not let them know what the hell goeth on.

Jerome Lawrence

#28. Because if she isn't angry with him, how can I be?

Ally Condie