Quotes About Reluctant

He was familiar enough with pleasure to know it might become jaded or reluctant; but joy was literally foreign to him, a word he would never easily pronounce, an exhilaration that had some other reckless nationality. For this reason, Caro's wholeness in love, her happiness in it, made her exotic.

So here I am, against my will and yours too, well I know-- no one wants the man who brings bad news.

And somehow I became the reluctant inheritor of his hatred for the world that had coldly knocked him down without even glancing back.

the Borderers regarded reiving as legitimate (which is true), but that they held murder to be a crime, and consequently were reluctant to commit it—except in the heat of action or when covered by the virtual absolution of deadly feud. It is rather like saying that a heavy drinker, in his sober moments, is an abstemious man.

To be honest, I deliberately tend not to post things like 'I'm having a relationship' or where I live. I'm a bit reluctant to keep this kind of information up to date because people are inclined to see things like that as statements, and I rather keep a little bit of privacy, if possible at all.

I have a great deal of sympathy for reluctant readers because I was one. I would do anything to avoid reading. In my case, it wasn't until I was 13 and discovered the 'Lord of the Rings' that I learned to love reading.

I wasn't looking to be a star, I just happened to love acting, I was a reluctant actor.

They were also invincibly arrogant, a characteristic fueled by the fact that they were, by and large, as talented as they thought themselves, a situation which engendered in less-favored mortals a certain reluctant respect. Not that Cynsters demanded respect - they simply took it as their due

Sometimes I felt as if we were all wading around in grief, reluctant to admit to others how far we were waving or drowning.

Sometimes I felt as if we were all wading around in grief, reluctant to admit to others how far we were wading or drowning.

The patient fights being a winner because he is not in treatment for that purpose, but only to be made into a braver loser. This is natural enough, since if he becomes a braver loser, he can follow his script more comfortably, whereas if he becomes a winner he has to throw away all or most of his script and start over, which most people are reluctant to do.

A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.

Jeremiah was not eager to become a prophet of God. When the call came to him all of a sudden, he shrank back, he resisted, he tried to get away. - Dietrich BonHoeffer

I agreed, with reluctance.

he was voting yes "with some reluctance.

they were growing reluctant to lend,

each lender was typically reluctant to offer a modification without concessions from the other. Servicers

Tim and I had persuaded a reluctant Hank not to stand in the way of Dimon's higher offer.

I never wanted to do 'The Hobbit' in the first place.

I don't put myself out there - I'm really a homebody.

Well, they know that I'm not very anxious to get into one hour again.

I'm not one of those reporters who relishes picking through people's privacy. It's probably the reason I'm a second-rate journalist.

There was certainly plenty in her own past that she was reluctant to look at. Because looking made it real.

The wooing, the winning, the dining, the romance—it's all part of his here-and-now philosophy. He doesn't feel reluctant about sharing intimacies with a stranger because he isn't thinking of anything beyond selling himself.