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Quotes About Wavering

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.
~ Horace
God, how I ricochet between certainties and doubts.
~ Sylvia Plath
Wavering between the profit and the loss In this brief transit where the dreams cross The dreamcrossed twilight between birth and dying
~ T.S. Eliot
While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.
~ Terence
His smile wavers. I've been looking at him too long. 'Are you OK?' he says. I nod, take a deep breath. Then I lean over and kiss him.
~ Emma Pass, Acid
My judgment now is that he was vacillating and undecided in his actions.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
A strange smile wavered just around his face, not yet in his face
~ James Baldwin
You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
to possess one single thing (it is Louis now) must waver, like the light in and out of the beech leaves; and then words, moving darkly, in the depths of your mind will break up this knot of hardness, screwed in your pocket-handkerchief.
~ Virginia Woolf
Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, than women's are.
~ William Shakespeare
For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts; adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.
~ Orson Scott Card
Ohio State is an up and down team.
~ Booger McFarland
Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.
~ Oscar Levant
Bingo swayed like a jelly in a high wind.
~ p g wodehouse
We are tossed about by external causes in many ways, and like waves driven by contrary winds, we waver and are unconscious of the issue and our fate.' We think we are most ourselves when we are most passionate, whereas it is then we are most passive, caught in some ancestral torrent of impulse or feeling, and swept on to a precipitate reaction which meets only part of the situation because without thought only part of a situation can be perceived.
~ Will Durant
oscillating
~ Chip Heath
Everyone wavers between the emotionally still-alive past ad the already dead future. Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov)
~ Unknown
I used to be indecisive but now I am not quite sure.
~ Tommy Cooper
Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still-discordant wavering multitude, Can play upon it.
~ William Shakespeare
Fuck me. Fuck me for always getting into situations like this. Fuck me for caring. Fuck me for not knowing the words that would've made her stay. Fuck me for not knowing what I want. Fuck me for wavering. Fuck me for not kissing her back the right way. Fuck me for getting my hopes up. Fuck me for not having more realistic hopes. Fuck me for giving her my fucking jacket. Fuck.
~ Rachel Cohn
his hesitation. "Is it a
~ Diana Gabaldon
I waver between a cop-out agnostic and principled atheism
~ Dan Savage
It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.
~ George H. W. Bush
There is a goal but no way; what we call the way is mere wavering.
~ Franz Kafka