Reluctance Quotes
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When she finally pulled away from him - much to Aley's stuttering forward reluctance - he wanted only to echo Aley's words:
Oh! Do it again. — Charlotte Stein
Oh! Do it again. — Charlotte Stein
Receive the gifts of fortune without pride, and part with them without reluctance.
— Marcus Aurelius
People are ready to acknowledge some of their faults, but will admit to others only with reluctance.
— Epictetus
I always had a strong reluctance to hurt people, which is always the best way of hurting oneself.
— Romain Gary
Now naturally, like many of us, I have a reluctance to change too much of the old ways.
— Kazuo Ishiguro
I see too many men delay their exits with a sickly, slow reluctance to leave the stage. It's bad theater as well as bad living.
— John Steinbeck
There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
— Joseph Addison
Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future.
— John Steinbeck
When a writer doesn't show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God's famous reluctance to appear.
— Don DeLillo
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.
— Jean Racine
It's not the failure that holds us back but the reluctance to begin over again that causes us to stagnate.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one.
— Gustav Mahler
Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.
— George Bernard Shaw
Treat reluctance like seasickness," Errol said, picking something off his sleeve. "If you feel it, focus on the horizon.
— Daniel Handler
I stepped out of the circle of his arms with reluctance and patted him on his butt. "That'll do, donkey," I said, in my best Scottish accent.
— H.D. Gordon
All reluctance is a lack of confidence.
— Todd Duncan
The distance between us grows with each passing minute. Will he take my arm again, or will I have to take his?
— Stephanie Perkins
Matt Le Tissier had firm views about Austria's reluctance to allow Turkey full membership of the EU last Saturday, I seem to recall.
— Jeff Stelling
Buddhism and science share a fundamental reluctance to postulate a transcendent being as the origin of all things.
— Dalai Lama XIV
they shared mortals' reluctance for either reading instructions or calling customer support.
— Rick Riordan
I should probably confess that I get bored easily, which explains my reluctance to work with formula, tropes, whatever.
— Kit Reed
Time, effort & persistence make for the writing of a good novel. There's no such thing as "writer's block." Just reluctance to make the slog
— Mark Rubinstein
There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit they enjoy life.
— William Lyon Phelps
Oh it's clearly a cover up. I mean, I have no reluctance in saying that.
— Christopher Shays
Dodd acknowledged Congress's reluctance to become entangled abroad but added, "I do, however, think facts count; even if we hate them.
— Erik Larson
Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
— Charles Caleb Colton
But I still remained paralyzed by indecision, reluctance, and endless second-guessing ...
— Emily Giffin
Don't let your life be steered by your reluctance to do a little extra thinking.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
I allowed an uncertain smile to cross my face, though it did so with a little reluctance, wary of being run down by some more powerful expression.
— Ian Barker
When a boy I could never bear to read any Poetry whatever without disgust and reluctance," he said.32 He
— Benita Eisler
I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry.
— Rodney Alexander
Lots of women love to accuse men of being immature when the fellow in question displays a reluctance to 'commit.'
— Julie Burchill
My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over.
— Clifford D. Simak
An air of infinite reluctance M. Poirot climbed aboard the train. The conductor climbed after him.
— Agatha Christie
No more Network reluctance to make a program too entertaining for fear its commercials would pale in comparison.
— David Foster Wallace
In one way, I'm sympathetic to the institutional reluctance to face the music. I'd give a lot to mark my weight to 'model' rather than to 'market.'
— Warren Buffett
Only by investing and speaking your
vision with passion can the truth, one
way or the other, finally penetrate the
reluctance of the world. — Soren Kierkegaard
vision with passion can the truth, one
way or the other, finally penetrate the
reluctance of the world. — Soren Kierkegaard
The child's reluctance to speak for the first few months of his residence in a new country is not pathological, but normal.
— Stephen D. Krashen
One of the most persistent cultural tics of the early 21st century is Americans' reluctance to absorb, let alone prepare for, bad news.
— Frank Rich
I daresay in a way he deserved it, Joseph agreed with reluctance. But which of us can afford what we deserve? I need better, don't you?
— Anne Perry
The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.
— Rebecca Pepper Sinkler
Dogs display reluctance and wrath If you try to give them a bath. They bury bones in hideaways And half the time they trot sideaways.
— Ogden Nash
There is nothing more precious to a man than his will; there is nothing which he relinquishes with so much reluctance.
— J.G. Holland
Do not wait until you are rich before you start working for the Lord
— Sunday Adelaja