Quotes About Reticence

I don't want to share my worries - that's for me to know.

I never ask no questions, I never speak my mind. I've always found that silence helps to keep me and my kind alive ...' Judas Priest

I suppose there musst have been a deep love between him and his father, a love I could get no sense for because of its reticence. But as with most loves, it was shadowy, and painful, and confusing, and Titch seemed to me overly eager and too often hurt.

Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them.

Nor did he care about his childhood, for certainly I never heard him speak of it. I once questioned him about his early days and he would not answer. 'What is the egg to the eagle?' he asked me…

I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.

I was very shy. I'm still shy.

I was the kind of kid, I'd sit in the back row of the class with my head practically under the desk. I was incredibly afraid of people and very shy.

As a boy I was morbidly shy.

I've always been one to shy away from the publicity, the limelight, whatever you want to call it. I prefer to be in the background.

I was just genuinely shy. I'd always been a shy kid.

I was really, really shy when I was a little girl.

I was shy. I was more than shy.

I find it difficult to talk about myself. I'm just shy.

I've always been really shy. I was always afraid of any kind of confrontation.

I have a high degree of sensitivity, always have. I was very shy as a child. I don't know why that was.

I was painfully shy as a child.

I get shy. I think that's in any situation.

Shyness displays itself differently in me. I think it's more an awkwardness.

What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.

I am rather inclined to silence.

The new conspiracism has what we call a "partisan penumbra," an alignment with radical, antigovernment Republicans. Not all Republicans or conservatives join these ranks, but…they rarely speak out against conspiracist claims. They exhibit partisan reticence.

There's that initial reticence for some athletes to take you seriously.

As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.