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Quotes About Reluctant

As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president.
~ Keith Henson
I believe that these extra-terrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets. Most astronauts were reluctant to discuss UFOs.
~ Gordon Cooper
A few months ago, I had the pleasure of actually visiting the Playboy Mansion. I saw the peacocks, fed grapes to the monkeys, and even braved the fabled Grotto. After seeing the estate, I understood why anyone would be reluctant to leave.
~ Diablo Cody
Such utterance staggers and offends among the listeners. But it also opens vistas of possibility where we had not thought to go and where in fact, we are most reluctant to go.
~ Walter Brueggemann
He left out that he did not simply go to war--he had to be dragged kicking and screaming. He said that it was not that he was afraid--just that seeming to agree with such a thing would suggest one hadn't given it any thought.
~ Daniel Pinkwater
Rather unwillingly, Colonel Luscombe stepped across the threshold and had the door shut firmly behind him.
~ Agatha Christie
talked into a stupid investment in exactly the thing he disapproved of. He was like that: easily persuaded against his
~ Alastair Reynolds
Romney has become reluctant to say that human activity causes global warming, and even in his greener days he was always somewhat cagey about which remedies he'd support.
~ Timothy Noah
This idea is fraught with peril, and I fear that my answers to your questions will be interpreted as approval rather than reluctant assistance.
~ Raymond Chen
'Luke Cage' is about a reluctant superhero who lives in the shadows in Harlem. He has to decide if he's going to step up and fight for the heart of the city and defend the people against Cornell 'Cottonmouth' Stokes, my character, who kinda wants to keep everything in order and intact. I'm the criminal element in the story.
~ Mahershala Ali
Since the enactment of the War Powers Act in 1973, which I supported then and support now, Congress has been reluctant to assert its authority when presidents decide to send American soldiers into harm's way.
~ Charles B. Rangel
My relationship with my mother was unhealthily close. She was very supportive but wanted to fulfil her ambitions though me and was very reluctant to let go. She also hated my homosexuality.
~ David Starkey
I'm a bit shy, I suppose, and a bit lazy.
~ Joan Collins
I'm surprisingly squeamish.
~ Samin Nosrat
My parents were extremely reluctant. When my father was clearly dying, my mother refused to acknowledge it.
~ Roz Chast
I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner
~ Tony Benn
For example, Americans seem reluctant to take on Shakespeare because you don't think you're very good at it - which is rubbish. You're missing out here.
~ Alan Cumming
Our ability to make a decision about the declaration is hampered by the British government being reluctant to give us the clarification which we require.
~ Martin McGuinness
Veterans are generally reluctant to seek mental health care.
~ Chuck Norris
Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history.
~ Hanif Kureishi
I personally think that we should be extremely reluctant to use a recall mechanism for an unpopular decision simply because of the message it sends about judicial independence.
~ Deborah Rhode
Apie praeit?, nebent ji b?t? be galo laiminga, vaikai kalb?ti nelink?.
~ Jane Gardam
What was the thread that held together the scattered beads of experience if not the pressure of interpretation? The meaning of life was whatever meaning one could thrust down its reluctant throat.
~ Edward St. Aubyn
In the early years of America's skyjacking epidemic, the airlines were reluctant to let the FBI attempt to end hijackings by force; they feared that innocents would get caught in the crossfire, thereby sparking a wave of negative publicity.
~ Brendan I. Koerner