Quotes About Vacillation

I've waffled before. I'll waffle again.

The great lesson of history for us is that strength and resolve bring peace and order, and weakness and vacillation invite chaos and conflict.

The history of the Republican Party is marked by vacillation between its founding principle of opportunity and its domination by the wealthy elite.

I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure.

I can never make up my mind about anything myself - I'm always afflicted with indecision. Just as soon as I decided to do something I feel in my bones that another course would be the correct one. It's dreadful misfortune, but I was born that way, and there is no use in blaming me for it, as some people do.

Its place is in the shady world of political trade-offs and vacillating leaders and institutions hell-bent on survival.

As if the species in every individual were on guard against letting himself go too far along the road of tolerance, intelligent doubt, sentimental vacillation. At some given point the callus, the sclerosis, the definition is born: black or white, radical or conservative, homo- or heterosexual, the San Lorenzo team or the Boca Juniors, meat or vegetables, business or poetry.

For Mr. Putin, vacillation invites aggression. His world is a brutish, cynical place, where power is worshiped, weakness is despised, and all rivalries are zero-sum.

Davis was weak and vascillating, timid, petulant, peevish, obstinate, but not firm.

O nosso coração é tão vacilante e a vida humana um tal mistério, que mesmo num assassinato cívico, num assassinato libertador, se os há, o remorso de ter ferido um homem excede o prazer de ter sido útil ao género humano.

Barton 'strongly reproached the President'79 and said the whole situation had arisen because of de Valera's 'vacillation'. He had had his chance of going to London and had refused.

Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.

The purpose of all of this (left hemisphere's way of choosing denial or repression over considering an anomaly) is to impose stability on behavior and to prevent vacillation because indecisiveness doesn't serve any purpose. Any decision, so long as it is probably correct, is better than no decision at all. A perpetually fickle general will never win a war.

there's an epidemic of ambivalence about many things these days.

Once he makes up his mind, he's full of indecision (on Dwight D. Eisenhower).

Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.

Beige is the color of indecision