Quotes About Reluctance

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.

Isn't this concept—something I would rather not be doing—one of the most recognizable definitions of work for most of us?

I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.

Tom gave up the brush with reluctance in his face, but alacrity in his heart.

I don't know. I don't want to sell him. All right. It's a mighty small tick, anyway.

Oh, come on, Arthur. I don't want to hear it, Andy. Jesus Christ He doesn't want to hear it, either.

I'm not sure about whether I shall go. I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather

Our reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying has increased the harm we inflict on people and denied them the basic comforts they most need. Lacking a coherent view of how people might live successfully all the way to their very end, we have allowed our fates to be controlled by the imperatives of medicine, technology, and strangers.

Whereupon she went to work, having the feminine aversion of going to hell.

She wanted to tell him to go but she couldn't bear it if he did

And there followed a strange, elongated couple of minutes. The kind in which two people know they have to part, and don't want to.And while neither can acknowledge it, each believes the other feels it too.

all I felt when I saw Vanessa was this weird sensation I used to get when I was a kid, like when you're at a friend's house and your mum comes to get you before you're ready.

words 'organized games' held the same appeal to me as the words 'compulsory smear test'.

This guy's a drag." I spoke under my breath. "He sure is." "Know what I suggest?" "Yep. And the answer's no. I'm not going to kill him." "Oh, you're no fun.

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

Sandstorm sighed. "I was afraid you were going to say that.

I agreed, with reluctance.

and Betsy agreed to support additional purchases, though without enthusiasm.

he was voting yes "with some reluctance.

I have a little Honda Del Sol that I just refuse to get rid of.

Like most guys, I don't come to beauty regimes naturally. I'm dragged kicking and screaming by the best in the world.

It's not really that I didn't want to perform at all. What I didn't want to do was try to put together a band, rehearse, on my own. You know what I mean?

My band can tell you, I'd rather do anything than rehearse.

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