Quotes About Reluctance

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.

Comedy is not my world. It's difficult for me, but sometimes you just have to go with it and have a good time.

Che cos'è l'insonnia se non la maniaca ostinazione della nostra mente a fabbricare pensieri, ragionamenti, sillogismi e definizioni tutte sue, il suo rifiuto di abdicare di fronte alla divina incoscienza degli occhi chiusi o alla saggia follia dei sogni? L'uomo che non dorme - da qualche mese a questa parte ho fin troppe occasioni di constatarlo su me stesso - si rifiuta più o meno consapevolmente di affidarsi al flusso delle cose.

In retrospect, I'm very grateful for whatever reluctance it was that kept me alone until your mother came. Now that I look back, it seems to me that in all that deep darkness a miracle was preparing. So I am right to remember it as a blessed time, and myself as waiting in confidence, even if I had no idea what I was waiting for.

The bottom line is, if we feel like we're losing something, we avoid it; we won't do it.

George IV remained unwilling to give his Royal Assent to the bill until the very end. He did so finally, 'with pain and regret'

In the majority of instances he [the typical man] does not precisely feel a passion for his business; at best he does not dislike it. He begins his business functions with some reluctance, as late as he can, and he ends them with joy, as early as he can. And his engines, while he is engaged in his business, are seldom at their full 'h.p.

The Chairman glared across three hundred and eighty thousand kilometers of space at Conrad Taylor, who reluctantly subsided, like a volcano biding its time.

I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.

Mersenne met with the other mathematicians, but he was saddened by their reluctance to talk to him or to each other.

don't like the sound of that," says Suze at last.

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

Only by investing and speaking your vision with passion can the truth, one way or the other, finally penetrate the reluctance of the world.

Our All is at Stake, and the little Conveniencys and Comforts of Life, when set in Competition with our Liberty, ought to be rejected not with Reluctance but with Pleasure.

Alice (backed up with the Professor's relentless logic) convinced Louis to shake up the Leadership Council. He was reluctant to do anything that would show disrespect for birds who had worked hard for years to help and serve the colony. Making the moves while preserving the dignity of all was not easy.

I suppose beat reporters who cover people like Babbitt and Gephardt are reluctant to offend because they may need the powerful people's cooperation tomorrow. I didn't worry about cooperation tomorrow, so I kept offending people today.

I'm not through with you yet. Are you prepared to accept your punishment?" I nodded reluctantly. I wasn't sure what a vampire's punishment might be. But I was ready to find out. "I sentence you to a thousand kisses," he said. "Can I begin now?

The real problem has far less to do with what is really out there than it does with our resistance to finding out what is really out there. The suffering comes from our reluctance to learn to walk in the dark.

I do loathe explanations.

Late in my career, I was asked to do an inspirational record and a duets album and I didn't want to do either.

I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.

I would cringe when asked to dance. I still remember having to wake up early from Class VI to learn Bharatanatyam. I hated it.

Bing was always hesitant to accept appreciation in any form.

People sometimes think of 'queen' as a title that's shrouded with protocol and formality, and for that reason sometimes people are not easily saying what they want to say. They're reluctant to express their opinions, and I kind of find that frustrating because I want to know what people really, really think.