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Quotes About Wavering

I've waffled before. I'll waffle again.
~ Howard Dean
I want to mirror your image in its fullest perfection. Never be blind or too old to uphold your weighty wavering reflection
~ Rainer-Maria Rilke
The phone wavered in Richard's hand. He was holding it about half an inch away from his ear anyway because it seemed that somebody had dipped the earpiece in some chow mein recently, but that wasn't so bad. It was a public telephone so it was clearly an oversight that it was working at all.
~ Douglas Adams
Questioner: Is an intellectual understanding of the Truth necessary? Maharshi: Yes. Otherwise why does not the person realise God or the Self at once, ie. as soon as he is told that God is all or the Self is all? That shows some wavering on his part. He must argue with himself and gradually convince himself of the Truth before his faith becomes firm.
~ Ramana Maharshi
As the light wavered into the rooms, they looked impossibly large with darkness, which seemed less still than it ought to be.
~ Ramsey Campbell
That feeling of wavering between reality and supernatural has always been really interesting to me.
~ Hiro Murai
People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.
~ George H. W. Bush
God, how I ricochet between certainties and doubts.
~ Sylvia Plath
It was by faith, nothing wavering, that Joseph saw God our Eternal Father and Jesus Christ, His Son.
~ Thomas S. Monson
Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.
~ Jean Paul
I used to be indecisive but now I am not quite sure
~ Tommy Cooper
Tonight's show is about doubt. Or maybe it isn't - haven't made my mind up yet.
~ Bill Bailey
T was mine to shrink, withstand in time, For, while I sinned, I knew my crime. Oh! Wretched, wavering heart! As vain Thy wild resentment as thy pain: One thought alone expels the rest, One sole regret distracts my breast, O'ermastering and subduing all More than my crime, more than my fall: Are not shame, fear, remorse, forgot, In that one thought- He loves me not!
~ Jami
If you're not confident in yourself, you're going to waver. I've wavered, and I've lost.
~ Mary J. Blige
We think we want to do something and when it comes to it, we don't. We don't like to commit.
~ Linda McCartney
Luck is flow and force. There's no power that can fully take that into account, fate is still wavering.
~ Nobuyuki Fukumoto
I don't know. It depends on the day. Depends on the hour of the day...I don't really know if I really want to do that. I think I do and then I think I don't. It makes me really nervous to think about really doing it.
~ Elizabeth Berg
The wavering mind is but a base possession.
~ Euripides
Takes a while for a person to decide what they like best. Some folks never do decide. Always changing their mind, back and forth.
~ Robert Ferrigno
As rendered by Rolland Munro, the concept of 'melancholy' in its current use 'represents not so much a state of indecision, a wavering between the choice of going one way or another, so much as it represents a backing off from the very divisions'; it stands for a 'disentanglement' from 'being attached to anything specific'. To be 'melancholic' is 'to sense the infinity of connection, but be hooked up to nothing'.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
Do not punish yourself if you waver. Humans judge, nature does not.
~ Devdutt Pattnaik
This was getting out of control. I was about to back out of the room when
~ Andy Andrews
The long-drawn, wavering howl has, for all its fearful resonance, some inherent sadness in it, as if the beasts would love to be less beastly if only they knew how and never cease to mourn their own condition.
~ Angela Carter
Any violence which does not spring from a spiritual base, will be wavering and uncertain. It lacks the stability which can only rest in a fanatical outlook.
~ Adolf Hitler